ELIOT'S MYTHICAL METHOD

Eliot sees myth e ritual as a potential means of ordering and transforming into significant contemporary experience.

Their technical function seems to have been more important to him than their symbolic meaning.

By November 1923, after the waste land's publication Eliot is even more explicit about this problem.

The very title of this review in "the Dial" of Joice's Ulysses makes the point Ulysses, order and myth.

He sets out to answer the challenge of readers who, in terms used by many earlier reader of The Waste Land so Ulysses as an invitation to chaos, an expression of feelings, which are perverse, partial and a distortable of reality. Eliot, in answer to this, calls the work classical and complains that people have underestimated the importance of Odyssey parallel as a structural device.

   "in using myth, in manipulating a continues parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr Joice is pursing a method which others must pursing after him. It Is simply away of controlling and ordering, of giving a shape and a significal to the immense panorama of futility an anarchy which is contemporary history".

T.S.Eliot's technique for presenting "dimense panorama" is different from Joice's.

Eliot's use of myth:

By compression and allusions he condenses it where Joice expands the moment almost to infinitude, but both resort a black-cloth of mythology….