Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part D (2025)

Modernist literature portrays the 20th-century town as a representation of current social, financial, and cultural changes. T. S. Eliot's poetry illustrates the city as a metaphor for the spiritual and psychological conflicts of present-day mankind. This research analyses Eliot's use of the metropolis to research isolation, fragmentation, and alienation problems through symbolic and cultural examination. The examination elucidates how modern poets, specifically Eliot, reacted to modernism and urbanization in literature. The have looked at starts by situating the modern-day city in modernist literature and analyzing urbanization in 20th-century literary works. Subsequently, it examines literary reactions to this occasion and the emergence of the town as a significant symbol in modernist poetry. The study examines Eliot's encounters with the modern metropolis, first collectively with his biographical affects and concluding along together with his perception of the urban environment as a manifestation of non-secular decay and fragmentation. In his distinguished poems, like "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the city epitomizes loss and emotional fragmentation, mirroring the put up-World War I milieu and societal depression. Eliot used theological and mythical intertextuality to decorate the importance of his portrayal. His poetry examines non-secular crises, identification dissolution, and ancient narratives within the present day town. In "The Waste Land," the "unreal city" represents disintegration and detachment from truth, even as in "Prufrock," it explores solitude and concrete monotony. The observer analyses Eliot's concluding works, in particular the Inferno Quartets, wherein the metropolis evolves from a locus of destruction to a venue of reconciliation. The research contrasts Eliot's angle on the town with that of different modernist poets, such as Arthur Pound, James Joyce, and Charles Baudelaire, emphasizing their wonderful representations of the city as a cultural and literary emblem. The studies illustrate that Eliot hired the town as both a tangible locale and a psychological and religious milieu that reflected present-day humanity. The town epitomized an existential crisis and the hunt for significance in a transforming world. This studies elucidates how modernist poets hired the city to take a look at contemporary philosophical and cultural issues.