Eliot sees myth and ritual as a potential means of ordering and transforming into significance contemporary experience.Their technical function are more important for him than their symbolical meaning.

After The Waste Land’s publication Eliot is even more explicit about this problem. The very title of his review in The Dial of Joyce’s Ulysses makes the point: Ulysses, order and myth.

Eliot calls the work classical and complains that people have stimated few the importance of the Odyssey as a structural device.

Eliot’s technique for presenting “the immense panorama” is different from Joyce’s one. Joyce expands the moment almost to infinite, but both resort a black-cloth of mythology to hold their material in share.