T.S Eliot- WateLand

Respected Sir,

1. Friedrich Nietzsche believing in progressive and forward looking thing and on the other hand T.S.Eliot in “The WasteLand” seems to be regressive and backward looking. He is come with philosophical concept. “The Ubermensch” it the German words which means superman. The ubermensch as a goal for humanity to set for it self.

T.s.Eliot talked about three religious christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism. Here, in this poem present the past, present,and what is modern thing. He was also mentioned symbol like “Red Rock” : Christian church faith in God, “Saint Marry Woolnoth” : is a curch. He also use of varous language like: English, German, French, Italian and sanskrit. The third part “ The Fire Sermon” pointed out about the Budhism, and last part “Upnishad” point out three ways to salvation. Eliot believes in to the God and myths.

2. According to me, “ The Wasteland”- T.S.Eliot the centeral theme of the poem is sexual perversion and spiritual degradation . It is also mentioned that “Life in death, death in life”. Eliot concern that one must follows tradition for “Salvation” Sigmund Freud and eliot both are opposite from each other. Freud concern for salvation one should be collective and individual balanced. He believe that “Life in death and death in life”, the cycle of life.

3.The title of the last part “What the Thunder Said” from Upnishad Prajapati spoke in thunder said “Aakashwani”. Eliot talked about three DA:

Datta: which means be giver

Dayadhvam: Which means compassion

Damyata: Which means Self-Control.

Shantih! Shantih!Shantih! He take the “Upnishad”. “Shantih” in the large context of the Hindu Tradition and spacific context of its use in “WasteLand”. It goes with Indian Philosophy. Here, “Shantih!” mantra means poet wants peace from the nation.

Here in this poem is also useful for ecocritical study because in the poem he wants to save river. The river is symbolizes the flow continuity of life. So, the river is also symbol of salvation of humanity. So, we can say that Eliot's use of Indian thoughts were for good idea in to the human mind.

Thank You....