Rabindranath Tagore’s Flute and T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock in poetry: Comparative Society-visages

Abstract

Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)  and English poet T.S.  Eliot (1888-1955) are one of the most talented poets of the twentieth century in the field of world literature.  Although different in location, country, language, both of them were keenly aware of contemporary social changes and the existential tensions and contradiction of civil society.  Rabindranath and Eliot, who are acutely aware of the country-time-society-politics, have self-questioning about human welfare; worthly prosperity and feeling fraternity is the main feature of both the poems of great sense of philanthropy in society.  In the land of poetry has brought out the dynamic within the society from an objective point of view.  Especially in the 20th century, he drew the feeling of intense isolation, loneliness, daily struggle to survive in the city-state, the bleeding of the pained heart in the poems Flute and The love song of J Alfred Prufrock. Various images of the existential crisis of the citizens of the newly developed modern society after the industrial revolution have been comparatively discussed in this article.