Metaphor as a Means of Pessimism in English Poetry

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate using metaphor as a powerful tool of pessimism in poetic texts with special emphasis on T.S Eliot's Waste Land. Eliot's Waste Land which is heavily pregnant of metaphors is a great epic poetic story summarizes the gloomy circumstances of the European life after the World War I where a complexity of sad feelings dominates the whole five parts of the poem. Eliot vividly used metaphor as an effective means in transferring the real degradation of the European life after the Great War.This study includes an introduction, significance of the study, choosing the metaphorical pessimistic expressions in Eliot's Waste Land, questions of the study, objectives of the study, methodology, what is metaphor? functions of metaphor, what is pessimism? The Waste Land, Eliot's life, why was Eliot pessimist in his great Waste Land? the analysis session, the answers of the study questions and the references.

Intertextuality Between T. S Eliot and Al Sayyab’s Poetry

“…This frustration is not found arbitrarily. It actually sneaks into his heart and mind through the ages of suffering and melancholy (Ayassrah & Alidmat, 2017). Al Sayyab was not more fortunate than Eliot; he faced a series of hard struggles such as being an orphan, acute diseases, interceptions by the Iraqi government, job loss, denied from the country and corruption in Iraq.…”