On The Characteristics Of T.S. Eliot 's "Wasteland" And "Non - Individuality"

T.S. Eliot who created a new poetic style is honored as the most influential poetin the20thcentury and the founder of New Criticism. His famous theory ofNon-individualism had profound and lasting influence to modernist literature. Hisfamous work The Waste Land paints a wonderful picture of the waste postwar state ofwestern world. In order to show the Non-individualism style, he held the propositionthat literature creation should depend on the historical consciousness of tradition andin his work The Waste Land,he take this way to recapture traditional culture and makea fusion between traditional and modern culture. Eliot also used several techniques toexpress his literature theory. He used divergent clamor to make the author fading out.He used montages and dialogues to make the authors’ subjective emotions fading out,which did not mean to eliminate all individualities, but to find an ObjectiveHomologue of feelings.On the one hand, The Waste Land is the best expression ofNon-individualism. On the other hand, it is a paradox, a paradox betweenindividuality and non-individualism. As The Waste Land written, it embodied spiritualdepression and emotions of the author.