The waste land and the love song of J.Alfred Prufrock : A Comparative Approximation**
The present paper attemps to look into T.S.eliots major thematic concerns and formal strategies through pointing out the similitudes that approximate his two major poems : the waste land and the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The external world bears the semblance of pessimisme and desponsdency, a compass that determines the direction of the movement of the characters and the outcome of their quest. The paper endeavours to canvass the reality with his juxtaposition of the idéals of the past with the reality of the present. These techniques involve enriching références to religious symbolism and mythology. The use of such techniques. It is concluded, both runs in accordance with the psychological movement in the two poems and serves the purpose of the universalisation of eliot’s interest.
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