Abstract
The present study attempts to investigate using metaphor as a powerful tool of pessimism in poetic texts with special emphasis on T.S Eliot’s Waste Land. Eliot’s Waste Land which is heavily pregnant of metaphors is a great epic poetic story summarizes the gloomy circumstances of the European life after the World War I where a complexity of sad feelings dominates the whole five parts of the poem. Eliot vividly used metaphor as an effective means in transferring the real degradation of the European life after the Great War.This study includes an introduction, significance of the study, choosing the metaphorical pessimistic expressions in Eliot’s Waste Land, questions of the study, objectives of the study, methodology, what is metaphor? functions of metaphor, what is pessimism? The Waste Land, Eliot’s life, why was Eliot pessimist in his great Waste Land? the analysis session, the answers of the study questions and the references.
Highlights
Literature generally and poetry are means of flirtation, gratification, pleasure or eloquence, but they mirror real circumstances of societies
This study aims to investigate the metaphorical pessimistic expressions in T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land which is considered as an attempt of representing the European tragic life from Eliot’s point of view after the World War I
How frequent are metaphorical expressions used in The Waste Land?
Summary
Literature generally and poetry are means of flirtation, gratification, pleasure or eloquence, but they mirror real circumstances of societies. They are like the living creatures which are affected by the outside environment. The study sheds light on depicting the cultural and spiritual death of the modern society using metaphorical expressions. It throws light on the significance of metaphor for poets as a rhetorical tool helping them to play with words, meanings and so scenes making them clearer, more effective and more attractive. It is found that poetry, among all literary genres, is the richest field of metaphorical occurrences, where a short poem may have more metaphorical expressions than a newspaper, a novel or even a play
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