Realisation of Passion and Intelligence: Eliot's Spirituality in "Journey of the Magi" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Anonymous 12th Grade

T.S. Eliot’s poetry offers readers insights into the transcendental realisation of passion for life that can be unveiled through his poetry. Both The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (1917) and The Journey of the Magi (1927) explore the degradation of the human condition, manifested through his lost sense of passion for life amidst the triumph of mechanical civilisation. Additionally, both of Eliot’s poems articulate the significance of renewing our desire for individualisation and greater emotional and spiritual transcendence to reclaim humanity’s passion for life through intellect. As a result, T.S. Eliot’s poems are paramount in bringing to light a realisation of passion for life as manifested through his intellectual poetry.

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock highlights the entropic decay of individual identity as an outcome of urban living that pervades one’s search for passion in their life. The erosion of emotional and spiritual sanctions that arose out of the morally uncertain twentieth century saw the lost traditional sense of human purpose and destiny, leading to the scepticism of moral relativity. The connection between the decaying environment and the moral psyche is established through the rhyming couplet in “streets...