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T.S. Eliot’s Poetic Journey from Fragmentation to Harmony

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T.S. Eliot’s Poetic Journey from Fragmentation to Harmony

Abstract

This study explores how fragmentation and harmony are portrayed in T.S. Eliot’s poetry, focusing on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and “Burnt Norton” from Four Quartets. Eliot’s earlier poems, “Prufrock” and The Waste Land, display a disjointed and hopeless modern world loaded with anxiety and loneliness, thereby demonstrating the failure of organizing principles. Eliot employs literary, mythological, and biblical allusions to create harmony and address these anxieties, yet his strategies often fail to overcome the poems’ depiction of a disorganized world. However, his later poetry, exemplified by “Burnt Norton,” exhibits a shift towards serenity. Following his conversion to Anglicanism in 1927, Eliot transformed his poetic universe, convincingly suggesting a transcendent realm. In “Burnt Norton,” Eliot acknowledges life’s inherent chaos but offers a pathway to harmony by embracing temporal flux and revealing an underlying order in the universe. This paper thus demonstrates Eliot's departure from the hopelessness and fragmentation of his earlier works towards a more harmonious and, ultimately, more optimistic view of reality in his later poetry, reflecting his developing philosophical and spiritual orientation.

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

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Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

1 Temmuz 2025

Kabul Tarihi

9 Eylül 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Sayı: 64

Kaynak Göster

APA
Sezer Toraman, Ş. (2025). T.S. Eliot’s Poetic Journey from Fragmentation to Harmony. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi, 64, 93-108. https://doi.org/10.35237/suitder.1731451