The waste land By T. S. Eliot (1922)

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‘The waste land’ By T. S. Eliot (1922)
Society is a heap of broken images where the sun beats
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in Missouri in 1888. He did graduate work in Philosophy at Havard and Merton College. Tomas was one of the most innovative poets in the twentieth century. He believed that poems were the only way that could define the complexities in the modern society. Eliot joined publishing and literature work in 1925 after he quit his job as a banker. His career in anthropology and literature was boosted when he joined Faber and Gwyer, a publishing firm, and when he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. He did his first poem in 1917 which gave him the inspiration to do more poems from its numerous feedbacks (Brooker & Bentley 106).
In October 1922, Eliot developed the poet ‘The Waste Land’. In November the same year, the poet was published in the Dial and later was published as a book. The poem is an exploratory yet illusive poem that can be analyzed at three different levels i.e. the individual, the society and the race to achieve by all the humans. At the individual level, the poem reveals what the main intentions and feelings of Eliots were while writing, at the societal level the poem relates to his society and at the human level it goes beyond all human societies (Untermever 136).
The poem’s opening lines are an introduction to how the protagonist reacts to the arrival of springs in April. He is afraid to live the life and does not want the revelation that the new life brings across with it. There is fear of death “fear in a handful of dust”. The fear is distributed in the poem but the most horrific part is on the issue of rats. The whole setting in Wasteland describes the fear o...