1. His first important poem “The love song of J.Alfred Profrod.
2. Masterpiece: The Waste Land
3. In 1927, Eliot took English citiznship and become a devout member of the Anglican Church
4. He expressed a sense of the disintegration of life
5. The waste land not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spirtual desolation in the modern Western world, the poem is 433 lines long and is dived into five sections.
The waste is a poem concerned with the spiritual break up of a modern civilization in which humanlife has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
6. Eliot came to believe that the illness of the modern world was of the sum of individual souls, and that the cure could only be obtained by the change of the individual souls through the religious salvation. Thus, the quest for stability, for order, and for the maintaining of the bourgeois status quo became this primary concern in his later work.