Moral Degradation of Modern People’s Life after the World War I: The Study of Void Modernism and the Eternal Human Problems through the Phenomenal Poem the West Land by T.S Eliot
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
Abstract: After the world war II in 1920s there has been created the void situation in the society. The desolate condition has found by the modern people. They were having the predicament life with stranded fate and the consequence has came negatively upon their life which was called the moral degradation. Most of the critics felt to write about their disrupt feelings towards the immoral sides of the fashioned people with empty hearts. T. S Eliot was a scintillating figure who did attempt to write and depicted the picture of modernism and dilemma of actual morality. To show the disposition about his ideologies regarding moral dilemma and voidness in modern people’s life, Eliot has been written his magnificent piece of poem named The Waste Land (1922). After the publication of this remarkable poem, the modern society of that time has been shaken like anything. Because this poem did deconstruct the structure of modernism and the concoctation of other elements. After the postwar the emptiness in modern people has been presented as like the disease of the age. However Eliot did divide this poem into five incredibly meaningful parts where he did use some mythical elements. The effort of this paper is to show how the poem The West Land symbolically suggested the death of spiritual quest of men. Therefore asked some dispute kind of questions on modernism. Through this paper i will attempt to expose the picture of modern people’s void life which has given by the name of west land. Eliot actually tried to tie the uncomfortable zone with the human’s universal problems and also he intended to discern a possible way of coming out from that eternal malaise in human life. Keywords: Postwar, Modernism, Voidness, Age of worry, T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Authors and Affiliations
Farhana Haque
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP396101
- DOI -
- Views 171
- Downloads 0
Relationship between legislative oversight and Executives’ compliance with principles of leadership and governance: a case study of Makueni County Assembly in Kenya
Abstract: Legislatures exercise oversight over governments operations to ensure accountability and prudence in the exercise of public duty. Nonetheless, oversight function is often misconstrued as adversarial and fault-f...
Soils and Water Interplay in Sokoto-Rima Floodplain
The aim of this research is to assess the soils and water quality along Sokoto-Rima Floodplain; the correlation analysis was used to find out the degree of relationship between pollutants in soils and water. Seven sample...
Respondents Perception on Appropriate Manifesto Design in General Election
Abstract: Election through manifesto will ensure winning seat in general election. This research study determines respondent’s perception on appropriate manifesto design for the general election. Quantitative approach wi...
Entrepreneurial Social Network Development to Improve the Business Performance of Small Medium Enterprise: A Case Study of Hospitality Industries in Western Region
Abstract: Western Region is known for its hospitality and tourism destinations and the cosmopolitan nature of the city has contributed to the increase in number of business institutions and hospitality industry is no exc...
A Comparative Study of Conceptual Metaphor in Chinese and American Commencement Speeches
Abstract: The main objectives of the study are to further explore the connection between conceptual metaphor and the language expression structures through the comparative analysis of the conceptual metaphor in the comme...