LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Social Criticism in T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland

M. Sangeetha and Christy Peter
Adhiyaman Arts and Science College, Uthangarai

Abstract

The Wasteland addresses modernity and the lost connection to high culture and refined life. It explores the interplay between emotional sufferings, portrayal of madness in pleasure, contemporary psychiatry and offers solutions from the Indian Upanishad. Words such as Datta, Dayavadham, and Damyatta proffer a wonderful solution to break free from the madness of sensual and materialistic life. The poem is an outlet for Eliot’s anxieties around the loss of cultural and moral identity in the modern world, a world that “lacks traditional structures of authority and belief” thus only containing “soil that may not be conducive to new growth” (Lewis). The theme of the poem is relative and meaningful and also is prophetic of the modern times.

Keywords: T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, social criticism, contemporary psychiatry, moral identity

Social Criticism

The term social criticism often refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious conditions prevalent in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure. It examines the literature in the cultural, economic and social context in which the literary piece is written or received. Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on issues in a society. This is often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace of the crisis in the society. The theme of the poem is the spiritual and emotional sterility of the modern world. Man has lost his passion. His has lost his faith in God and religion.

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M. Sangeetha
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Christy Peter
Assistant Professor

Adhiyaman Arts and Science College
Uthangarai 635207
Krishnagiri District
Tamil Nadu
India
chrisantben07@gmail.com

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