DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i02.026

Pages: 459-462

Literature of the early Twentieth Century reflected the turmoil that had engulfed the entire world. There was a feeling among the common people that humanity had achieved the material progress at the cost of spiritual and moral values. Uncertainty and disbelief created a disturbance and disequilibrium in man and society. Science created doubts about the authenticity of religion and dismissed man’s role in the universe, that itself seemed meaningless. The mass destruction during the First World War intensified disillusionment further. With the higher connection and meaning gone, man was just a wanderer on the face of the earth. Universe was reduced from a cosmos to a chaos – devoid of any significance. The writers of the age tried to depict this anxiety in literature. The Present paper focuses on the poetry of T.S. Eliot where one gets a clear reflection of the spiritual and moral vacuity that was prevalent in the early Twentieth Century.