DYNAMICS OF TEXTUAL SPACE: T.S. ELIOT IN PERSPECTIVE

The word and the world are no longer coeval. The modern world, near anarchic and totally absurd, emerges like a formidable fortress with complex labyrinths. The poet, the manipulator of words, struggles with the words themselves in quest of a possible exit. The verbal artifice erects a distinct world - confusing, abstract, and volatile; the entrapped intellect reacts in a desperate attack. The gaps in the discursive structure constitute a presence embodying a space that dramatizes the variegated processes of configuration, disfiguration and re-configuration that characterize the unending dynamics of the text. An exploration of the intriguing spatial dynamics of Eliot’s works remains a challenging and rewarding prospect, with evolving new perceptual profiles emerging in the process.