Symbolism and Unified Sensibility in T.S. Eliot Poetry

Pages:16-18
Sudhir Kumar (Department of English, Govt. College, Birohar, Jhajjar, Haryana)

Between certain things comparisons are established through symbolism as a literary device. The comparison becomes meaningful and vivid when an abstract idea is concretized through a physical object. With Augustans temperament and their attitude to the problem of writing poetry. Eliot was helped to formulate his traditionalism that he has much in common. Arthur Symon’s book ‘The Symbolist Movement In Literature’ stimulated his interest in the poetry of the fresh symbolists, when he read it round the year 1908. Through the use of words and lines written by writers of different countries and times, symbolism as a device brings places and events and history and legends together. Through poetic shorthand Eliot compresses his ideas and impressions. After all, throughout the ages human experience is practically one and same. Fashion may change and modes may alter, inspite of passage of time human nature essentially remains unchanged.