International Journal of Social Sciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Pessimism in T.S. Eliot's Poem “The Waste – Land”

English Language Department Faculty of Arts/Elimam Elmahdi University, Sudan

*Corresponding author: rahofa67@yahoo.com

Online published on 11 November, 2014.

Abstract

This study aims to reflect the Pessimism in the poet: Thomas Steearns Eliot's poem “The Waste Land” in which he represented both an assessment of the World situation in the time of World War I as he felt it to be, and a creative transformation of the world that is observed in the final section of the Poem. The Poem “The Waste Land’’ is divided into five sections under the title of: (I) The Burial of the Dead. (II) A Game of Chess. (III) The fire Sermon. (IV) Death by water and (V) What the Thunder Said. Each section is discussed and analyzed and then the researcher draws a conclusion that Eliot is: Not always pessimist. Eliot's poem shows the society during the World War 1.

Keywords

Pessimism, Transformation, The Waste Land