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When closely examining Modernism and its characteristics, one can observe through T.S. Eliot prime examples of the Modernist movement and how it differentiates itself from movements and eras that came before. T.S. Eliot, along with many other poets and artists, headed this new revolution which started in the late 1800s and prolonged until the late 1930s. In his poems entitled “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot exemplifies much of the traits that constitutes Modernism. This includes the break away from Romanticism and Realism, the emphasis more on form and less on content, and the breaking away from the usual writing that was seen before.
T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land,” challenges the idea of conventional poetic form that is primarily seen before the Modernist movement. In a way, the poem is experimental. In this poem there are varied perspectives or a lack of a central speaker. This is evident in the first stanza. Within the......

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