Themes Of Nature In T S Eliot's The Waste Land

Themes of nature in the works of T S Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work in Lausanne, Switzerland while it was written in the autumn of 1921. Personal health crisis, the mental instability of his wife, who ultimately died in a mental hospital, and the nerve shattering impact of the WW-I, all account of the depressing and miserable picture of the human dilemma as presented in the poem, so much so that it has been supposed that the poem express the disenchantment of the generation. The gloom and despair of the poet are echoed in the poem.

T. S. Eliot is a modernist poet with numerous works to his credit and the masterpiece is The Waste Land crowning him as the greatest poet in the twentieth century. Eliot fulfilled his self-imposed duties by using the materials of the city life to build up his poetry. The ecological theme of Eliot’s The Waste Land is very rarely discovered which tries to probe this espousing theme of literary criticism. Eliot has splattered an ecological inequilibrium and a world which has not regenerated in The Waste Land. He employs his