The Waste Land Under The Visual Threshold Of Existentialism

Under the visual threshold of existentialism by Martin Heidegger, this paper explains theWaste Land, the long poem of T S Eliot, considers the world in the Waste Land as thefour-unit-in-one world of the earth, the sky, the sacred and the transience in the existentialismphilosophy, from the layer of existentialism philosophy, it summarizes the formation of “wasteland” in the human world as the following reasons:(1) as the transience human being deems theworld as the object to be understood, applied and conquered, thereby plunder the earth, damagethe ecological environment and abuse the human desires;(2) the human being loses theunderstanding of the self-transience;(3)“the God dies”, the sacred retires from the public world,and the human being loses the higher spirit and the care of inherent constraint. This paper pointsout the wasteland people is rescued, which is the path to recall the revalue of the “sacred” in the“world” in the aspect of the visual threshold of existentialism, thus realizes the real existence ofhuman being in the world, which just is the embodiment of poem in Eliot’s religiousconsciousness however.