• Dr. P. Xavier

Obsession of Present World: A Reflection of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. He is a versatile personality. His dimensions in literature are, American-English Poet, Playwright, Literary Critic, and Editor, A Leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays, he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Then he died on January 4, 1965, in London, England. He is a prolific writer who vigorously expressed his perception of the world then but unfortunately, now the situation has worsened to the extremity. He is the first writer in English one who vehemently shared the ruining of culture, tradition, customs, and patterns of life. He realizes the ideas and perception of the world abruptly to the world. Through some examples from the literature of the world shattered in his The Waste Land. Finally, the researcher is going to express the impact and how far the poem The Waste Land reflects present society will be discussed politically, economically, and socially in the research article.

KEYWORDS: Politics, Modern Society, Religion, Economics, and Waste Land

"OBSESSION OF MODERN SOCIETY IN T. S. ELIOTS' THE WASTE LAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.e283-e287, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310351.pdf

"OBSESSION OF MODERN SOCIETY IN T. S. ELIOTS' THE WASTE LAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppe283-e287, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310351.pdf