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Streets of the Fantastic and the Return of the Real: An Aspect of T. S. Eliot's Early Poetry

The main aim of this article is to explore the significance of the fantastic in Eliot’s early poems. Influenced by Charles Baudelaire, whom he championed as the single most important precursor who unprecedentedly fused the realistic with the fantastic, Eliot critically examined the experience of modernity and re-presented urban streets as a problematic site of modernity in his early poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Morning at the Window,” “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” The Waste Land. The fantastic in the works is not the aesthetic realm where social realities are erased but that of politics where they are shockingly re-presented and ghosts symbolizing modernity’s others visually haunt to criticize its horrible conditions.