Eliot’s Poem, The Wasteland, Role and Significance of Tiresias

Introduction:  Tiresias has been projected as the protagonist in The Waste Land. Basically, there is only one character in the poem. His presence gives the poem a sense of the oneness of experience and of the unity of all the periods. Tiresias assumes many masks and his voice alternates with the voices of the inmates … Read more

Poem The Wasteland |Theme of Disintegration and Loss of Spiritual Values |

Theme of Disintegration:  One of the important themes of The Waste Land is a vision of dissolution and spiritual drought. This spiritual drought arises from the degeneration, vulgarisation, and commercialisation of sex. Sex – act is the source of life and vitality, when it is exercised for the sake of procreation and when it is … Read more