Vol-6,Issue-5,September - October 2021

Author: Prakash Philip

Keywords: The Waste Land, Pandemic, Eco-criticism.

Abstract: Human Civilization has gone through many stages of drastic changes to be in the present form. Some were productive, while others were catastrophic. But still, humans as a species survived and flourished on the surface of the earth. But the story doesn’t end here. In this process of change, there are many hurdles to be crossed. One such hurdle is the advent of diseases which soon took shape of a pandemic. History witnessed many such pandemic with heavy casualties. A pandemic of recent origin is COVID- 19, which has caused the whole world into a standstill and creates many cracks in many sectors of society. This research aims to find out the various clues regarding this outbreak in decades old poem The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot.

Article Info: Received: 08 Aug 2021; Received in revised form: 11 Sep 2021; Accepted: 17 Sep 2021; Available online: 22 Sep 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.65.12

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