المجلة الجزائرية للأبحاث والدراسات
Volume 6, Numéro 4, Pages 298-310
2023-10-31

Myth, Sex, And Animality In T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney Among The Nightingales

Authors : Bellour Leila .

Abstract

Eliot’s scholars have ignored the gender-related aspect of myth in T. S. Eliot’s poetry. This article evinces that in his poem “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” T. S. Eliot employs myths, which are concerned with gender antagonism and corrupt sexual relations to consolidate his misogynistic views and preserve the old patriarchal system. The bard represents sexuality as a lapse into animality, savagery, and primitivism.

Keywords

Myth ; Misogyny ; sex ; T. S. Eliot ; Sweeney Among the Nightingales