The disintegration of the triangle of man, myth and nature in T. S. Eliot's the waste land (1922)‎

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This research is an attempt at revealing T.

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Eliot's emphasis in The Waste Land (1922) on the modem man's urgent need to restore the strong bond which once existed, in primitive times, between man and nature, on the one hand, and between man and myth on the other.

The strong relationship, or triangle, that bound man, nature and myth together formed one of the fundamental foundation stones of ancient civilizations.

It manifested itself most clearly in the vegetation myths and legends and the mystery religions of ancient cultures.

What Eliot delineates in The Waste Land is the effect of the disintegration of this triangle.

Modem man is dissociated with nature and as a result has no intention of interpreting nature mythologically .

At the same time, he juxtaposes the past with the present in order to contrast the presence of this triangle in ancient cultures with its absence in contemporary life.