Eliot’s The Waste Land as the Reflection of the Society and the Tale of Gender and Sexuality

Abstract

As the Title Suggests, The Waste Land is an Area Where Nothing can Survive and Lose its Original Form, and Where People have Forgotten Their Social Duties Due To Their Involvement in the Materialistic World. They do not have Their Own Feelings and Emotions; in Spite of This, They Satisfy Only Their Own Self-Centered Desires, and Cultural Crises are the Main Point of Destruction.
To Explain This Statement, John Xiros Cooper has Rightly Said That, Eliot’s Exploitation of Both Religious and Mythological Materials in the Poem has Often Been Cited as the Principal Factor in Marking the Poem’s Deeper Level of Thematic Unity. The Poem’s Scatter, however Cannot be so Easily Worked Out.
The Dispersed or Horizontal Structure of the Text, the College Like Character of the Assemblage of Materials, Points; it is Said, To Eliot’s Critique of Modern Society. Fragmented, Emptied of Value, Sterile, the Modern Wasteland is Reflected in the Poem’s Artful Disarray. But at a Deeper Level, Eliot’s Fertility Symbolism and the End Wining of the Pagans (Tiresias, Cumean Sibyl, Adonis) and Christian (Grail, St Augustine, Dante) Materials Yield, so the Argument Goes, a Familiar, Compound Narrative That Moves From Experiential Failure, Guilt, Purgatorial, Suffering, and the Hope (but The Fact of Spiritual Rebirth… the Figure of Tiresias is Also the Product of a Highly Imaginative Cutting and Splicing of Given Mythological Materials. The Insistence of Critics on the Mythological Solution To the Poems Scatter can Probably be Set Down To Nostalgia For a Lost Unity, the Very Idea That the Poem Itself Seems To be Marking Out as the Central Failing of Modernity (Modernism and the Culture of Market Society 213)
The Waste Land is a long poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot, and widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of Modernist Poetry that published in 1922, contained 434-line (The Waste Land Web) poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of under the journal The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are April is the cruellest month, I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the hindi mantra in the Sanskrit language with three pious words of self meditation Shantih Shantih Shantih