• Dr. Arvind Kumar Srivastava

NA Like his poetry, the plays of T.S. Eliot also contain overtones of Buddhism. They effectively reproduce "the different levels- sensuous, logical, psychological and spiritual- upon which life is lived."1 His first attempt at a play consists of two rather unsuccessful fragments called "Sweeney Agonistes" and "The Rock", which suggests that the complete dramatic work would be forth coming. "Sweeney Agonistes" (1927) is Eliot's first dramatic version of "the theme of spiritual pilgrimage, the theme he has returned to again and again in his plays." 2 In this play, which consists of two fragments only, Sweeney's tale of murder and the awfulness of life-in-death for the murderers tend to illustrate the hollowness of sensuous pleasures and "a mystic process of killing desires."3 Thus, the murder and dissolution (in a loyal bath) of the girl in Sweeney's story represent "the violent murder of human desire and dissolution of the old life of birth and copulation and death in the sacramental purgatorial bath which will bring rebirth."

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"EMERGENCE OF THE BUDDHIST GOSPEL IN MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL BY T.S. ELIOT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no.a701-a707, November-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311088.pdf

"EMERGENCE OF THE BUDDHIST GOSPEL IN MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL BY T.S. ELIOT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no. ppa701-a707, November-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311088.pdf