Concrete Analysis of modernist authors D.H. Lawrence,T.S. Eliot,William Butler Yeats

Luckily he was engaged to a woman as old as himself , and therefore her father , who was steward of a neighbouring estate , would provide him with a job . He would marry and go into harness . His life was over , he would be a subject animal now (Lawrence ) If the above-passage is read as universal , that is : that each reader stands as Joe in the above-passage , it is easy to measure Lawrence 's appraisal of the encroaching modern age

No less obvious a lament for modernity is present in T .S Eliot 's famous

poem "The Wasteland " From the opening line of T .S . Eliot 's famous poem , The Wasteland ' a theme of lament - - of piercing irony establishes itself : April is the cruellest month breeding . One takes away from this opening image and diction a the theme of deepest grief , as though this single line stood as an assault on everything humanity previously held dear : Spring , life , reproduction The themes of The Wasteland are desolate : war , fragmentation , death . The mood is somber the imagery dissolute and weary . The overall impact is one of negativity . The Wasteland , though composed as a lyric poem evaded the usual subjectivity of lyric poetry by way of complex mythological , historical , and literary allusion , as well as by the use of careful (and arbitrary ) symbolism . The poem 's theme of modern social disintegration finds a worthy scaffolding in ancient myth , particularly through the lens of Sir James Frazier 's then-contemporaneous study of world myths , The Golden Bough . Eliot 's compositional plan for The Wasteland includes deliberate fragmentation of the poetic form itself in addition to the radical diction and imagery of the opening lines , the poem 's multiple , titled sections as well as its stanzaic forms and diction express a recurrent theme of fragmentation and disintegration...