Comparing T S Eliots The Wasteland and William Butler Yeats The Secon

study T. S. Eliots The Wasteland and William pantryman Yeats The game Coming World War angiotensin-converting enzyme fundamentally changed Europeans perspective on man. Before the war they believed that man was innately good, after it people were disenchanted with this vision of man. Both Thomas Sterns Eliot and William butler Yeats keenly felt this disenchantment, and evinced it in their poetry. In addition to the war, Eliot and Yeats also motto the continuing turmoil in Europe, such as the Russian diversity and the Irish Rebellions, as confirmation of their fear of mans nature and expanded their disillusion in The Waste Land and The arcsecond Coming. The poets shared more than a disbelief in the goodness of mans nature, they also twain had religious experiences that colour their thoughts. Eliot was an atheist at the start of his life, and converted to Christianity, coming to believe in it fervently. Eliot also toyed with Buddhism during one stage of his writing The Wa steland (Southam 132). Yeats, on the otherwise hand, grew up a practicing Christian and by the time he wrote The Second Coming was forming his own personal philosophy founded on an accumulation of everything he had read, thought, experienced, and compose over many years (Harrison. 1). His philosophy, therefore, included Christianity as a chemical element in his life, but not nearly as significant a factor as in Eliots life. Because of the importance of religion in both(prenominal) of their lives, Yeats and Eliot used many mythological and religious allusions in their poems. While both poets shared a disenchantment in the nature of man, their varying religions do them see different outcomes on mankinds horizon. Eliot saw the future as redeemable, turn Yeats believed it could onl... ... Works Cited Harrison, John. What rough beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and historical rhetoric in The Second Coming. Electric Library Leavis, F.R. The Waste Land. T.S. Eliot a Collection of Critical Essays.ed. HughKenner. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1962. 104-109 Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats http//www.en.utexas.edu/benjamin/316kfall/316unit4/studentprojects/ kiplingyeats/ entry.html Southam, B.C. A guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot. New York Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1994. UVA class notes, Dept of English, lit. intro into English from 1890 1989. http//www.faraday.clas.virginia.edu./sg5p/Class_notes_2.html Vickery, John B. The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough. Princeton Princeton University Press, 1973.