blog on T.S.Eliot and The waste land.
This blog is a part of classroom activities
(1) We can not compare
Eliot and Nietzche because they are right on their place.
Nietzche is not beliving in God and any Supernatural
power. He believe on man’s power like superman. He like an atheist. According to Nietzche traditional
value are like ‘ Slave morality’. The Ubermensch’.
Where
as Eliot tries to find out the solution in past like traditional values can be
evoke the Waste lander . He uses many
mythical reference from difficult culture.
Nietzche ‘s
cocept is very good but we cannot refuse Eliot’s concept because old philosophical idea which
recalled by Eliot was bring a change in society once a time.
(2) yes, it is true that giving free vent to the repressed ‘primitive
instinct’ lead us to happy and satisfied life .But on the individual cannot
make society happy surely. As Matthew Arnold says in culture and Anarchy that ‘Do
as one like may bring chaos in society. But Eliot tries to says that tradition
can bring stable life which is not completely true.
(3) In the Waste land Eliot discuss about
spiritual degradation and sexual perversion. After that he tries to find out
the solution from Buddhism and Upnishadas. The 5the part is ‘What the thunder
said’ it means Akashwani.
“Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain,
while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over
Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.
Then spoke the
thunder”
He uses many things like Ganga, Prajapati,
shinati etc. he also uses three Da.
Da: Datta: giver
Da: Dayadhvam: compassion
Da: Damyata:
self-cantrol
At
last he use the word Shantih from three times. Which suggest The peace which
passeth understanding'. It is from Upnishdas.
“Shantih shantih shantih “
.
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