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The Spiritual Journey in T.S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”: A Psychological Approach
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T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Journey of the Magi,” published in 1927, delves deeply into the themes of spiritual and existential development as it recounts the challenging voyage of the Magi to see the birth of Christ. This study examines how Eliot’s modernist approaches mirror the overarching themes of existential alienation and the quest for significance in a society characterised by fragmentation. The value of this research is in its placement within modernist literature, where the poem functions as a critical examination of the modernist obsession with disillusionment and the search for meaning. A Psychological approached is used to analyse the spirituality of the poem.
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