The Use of Mythology in Modern Poetry With A Special Referenve To Eliot’s The Waste Land

Chapter I discusses the recurrence of myth in modern poetry, and how for modern life has paved the way for the rise of modern mythology. The main uses of myth are detected in different poems by yeats, Edwin Muir, Robert Graves and Auden, who have contributed much to the revival and suggestive use of mythology in modern poetry.Chapter II is devoted to Eliot’s mythical method and its relation to his theories of tradition and impersonality. It handles in some detail, Eliot’s use of myth supported by various examples from his poetry.Chapter III shows how Eliot’s mythical method is applied to and exemplified in the waste land. It traces the main uses of myth in this poem to see how far myth enhances the poem’s richness and suggestiveness.