Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzsche’s views?

Hello friends,

What are

your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'?

Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzsche’s views?

Or

Has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling mytho-historical answer to the contemporary malaise?

 

Friedrich Nietzsche is progressive and forward looking where as T. S. Eliot seems like regressive because both have totally different sights and beliefs. Friedrich has the idea of 'Superman' who believes in faith and Self only. Superman has quality that he only believes in this life rather than after the death of life. Means, he has no belief in any mysticism. Super human is the creator of own life and values. He has his own motifs and will power. He thinks that the self is more important than anything else and there is nothing beyond the self. 

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future,

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden. My words echo

Thus, in your mind.

The poem – The Waste Land provides the modern reader with both a glimpse of the collective psyche. 

Somehow Freud's point of view is parallel and both are totally against to T. S . Eliot. Fragmented parts are there in each poem which must be connected. The fragments the broken images are the remains of something that is once, presumably, solid but is now ruins. 

The Waste land presents the remains of the culture and the world it describes are only the remains of a culture and of a world not a whole as it is. And The Hollow Men also support this argument and line suggests that.......

"This is the dead land

This is cactus land

Here the stone images

Are raised....."

The waste Land is also referred as 'dead land'. Mentioning only Indian thoughts which are used by Eliot in his poem, he reflects his reliance in Indic philosophy to come out from the agony. He uses 'Upanishads philosophy' which shows the path of living life. He uses that time where in poems , there is no calmness and no hope for bright future. He describes the way of living life through 'Sanatan Dharama'. There is the concept of ' Life in Death & Death in Life '. In poems, Inner turmoil of human begins visibly described. It is struggle not against any material things or outer enemies but struggle from the self. Being is not there. Existential anxiety are there . How to survive in this thorny state of affairs? Spiritual lack is also there and how to get the peace of heart. Human despair, spiritual draught exist there but the kingdom has no bright future.

 

"A dead sound on the final stroke of nine."

Above line is direct connected with death God- Christ. Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzsche’s views because Eliot goes back into past. Eliot uses the mythos and historical settings to convey his messages at different level. Because Our behaviours and culture is constructed by myths. with the references of myths, poet is able to explain some moral lessons. Present and past is always connected because roots are always in past. His vision of the future is connected to past.

"How can rootlessness be repaired?"

From there the quest of T. S. Eliot to find out the way - how to be out from this Waste Land of the world of the early 20th century. 

Thanking you.