Critics - Eliot

• Eliot portrays individuals feeling the 'futility and hollowness of the modern world' which leaves them 'isolated and alienated from individual thoughts and ideas'

  Chakraborty
• 'Other-worldly joy, and the horror of an existence void of meaning seemed to be the poles of [Eliot’s] life.’


  Cooper
• 'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood'


  T.S Eliot
• Eliot uses objects to speak through correlative meanings


  Green
• Modernist poetry is 'the art ... of existential exposure to meaninglessness or absurdity.'


  McFarlane