Online discussion on Oneness of Literature

          In essay, 'Tradition and Individual Talent' , Eliot  talks about the pastness of the past and its relevance to present, and in the Archetypal Criticism, Northrope Frye talks about the oneness of all world literature that the skeleton of the literature is one but the bodies are different in form of different language and literature. As in the above lines of Wasteland, the character of the Marie is connects with the historical figure  Marie Louise Elizabeth Mendel and her cousin Archduke Rudolph. So by this, perhaps he try to say that present also connects with past as present literature take the themes and character from past literature in one or another way. In Archetypal Criticism, Northrope Frye also talks about the oneness of the all world literature by the same archetypes used in different literature for same situation like Tajmahal used as the symbol of the love in many movies like Yangistan.

     These lines from Wasteland  give us the picture of the memory of Childhood  that Marie reminds her days when she with her cousin archduke went on sled but she freighted and he said to hold on  tight. So it suggests the attraction or lust. Sex is also one of the theme of the Wasteland , Eliot talks about the Separation of sex from the Love which indicates the spiritual decay. In a short story, 'A Joke', we find that the Speaker may love  Nadia when they went on coasting on sled, speaker said to Nadia,' I love You , Nadia'. They can't live together Nadia married someone and have three children but she never forget that how they coasted and words that whispered by speaker but there is not real  love, from last dialogue we come to know that the speaker is jested with Nadia , its like Joke for him. Speaker play with the emotions of Nadia just like lust not love. Love should be pure without any jealousy but when we read the legend of Tristan and Iseult, we find the jealousy. When we read the Osho , he talk about the Spirituality but it connects with the sex and love, he often say that the sex is the medium to reach at love, Here the for Eliot, sex is also beautiful thing  but in modern pop culture sex has nothing to do with the love, it's only for lust. Sex in modern time became the momentary pleasure or bussiness like in this poem the middle class, we find the sexual perversion in mechanical relationship of typist and clerk and the character of Eugenide is homosexual. All Europe burning with the lust and sexuality, so there is the decay of spirituality. Sex has been separated from love, marriage and procreation. It became beastly or animal copulation. 

     So, here we can say that all literature have same raw material is same but used with different style of writing. There is movie 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Dewani', where is same story of love found  but not only lust, Kabir and Naina come closer during their hiking trip into  mountains of Himalaya, up to Manali. Archetype of snow mountains are here in both  poem and short story is same.