The Wasteland by T.S Eliot: Thinking activity

( 1) What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land' ? Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzche's views? or has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling ,mytho- historical answer to the contemporary malaise?

 

         

T.S.Eliot and Friedrich Nietzsche are quit different in their thinking. Because Nietzsche never believe that “power” which is given by God and because of that power of the god whole world is generated. He is very practical in his life. He always believe on that whatever is seen by his eyes. He is believed in”superhuman” because he knows that what types of problems and struggle we have to face as a human being and after that they became as a superhuman. Above all we can say that he is believed in present life. He say that never think about past or future because with that we can never touch to the success. His power of positive thinking is appreciate to those who is fail in life. With that spirit we can do whatever we want. It develops our self faith. While T.S.Eliot is believe in spirituality and religion. we can’t say that he is always live in past he is very much in present also. He uses many types of references of different myth’s and religions etc. In short we can say that they both are power in their place because they balanced very well between progress and regress.

 (2) Gustaf Hellstrom's remark in the following image :-

                         

  

                                

     

 What are your views regarding these comments? Is it true that giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' lead us to happy nad satisfied life? Or do you agree with Eliot's view that 'salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition'?

  Frued and Nietzsche both are the contemporaries but their surface and field of way is different. Frued is believed in individuality and talk about "primitive instinct" where as Eliot believed in preservation of cultural traditions which means all together.
Frued was wrote that for progress of any individual primitive instinct was needed but in order to preserve tradition Eliot says that their is need for to grew together, for that example of Buddha was perhaps appropriate.

 (3)  Allusion to the Indian thoughts in 'The Wasteland'

  

In "The Waste Land" we see that Indian culture, religion, vedic hymns. example Upanishads and Buddhism idea are ancient and also Indian culture. In this poem we found context of river Ganga,Upanishads, Prajapati and 'what thunder said'. In thunder are three type of Da's.



Three Da's

   (1) Datta
   (2) Damyata
   (3) Dayadhvam
 
 DATA :- Data means be a giver to others
      
DAYADHVAM :-  D ayadhvam means feeling,empathy, pity  other, put your self into the grief and suffering.    .    

 DAMYATA :-  Damyata means self direction.Above one's passion and avidity.


       He ends his poem by lines "Shantih...Shantih...Shantih"   which mean peace that passes understanding. so this concept we can understand he use Indian concept in his poem.