ISSN 1923-1555[Print] ISSN 1923-1563[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Studies in Literature and Language Vol. 13, No. 6, 2016, pp. 1-5 DOI:10.3968/9093 1 Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture Modernism in the Eyes of T. S. Eliot: Break From Traditional Writings With Literary Forms and Movements Muhammad Ehsan [a],* ; Muhammad Zohaib Khalil [b] ; Muhammad Ahsin Ayub [c] ; Muhammad Mohsin Ayub [c] ; Bilal Atta [c] ; AsifIqbal Gill [d] [a] PhM Scholar, Department of English Language and Literature, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [b] M. Phill Student, The University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [c] Department of Entomology University of Agriculture Faisalabad- Pakistan. [d] Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences University of Agriculture Faisalabad-Pakistan. * Corresponding author. Received 9 September 2016; accepted 12 November 2016 Published online 26 December 2016 Abstract This paper owes to uncover the modern aspects in the writings of T. S. Eliot. Modernism, a movement which erupts from philosophy and has a “self-conscious” break from traditional writings and worked with literary forms and movements. As a modernist he portrays about the standard of love, money minded people and self centered people. The research is entirely based on T. S. Eliot’s poetry and generalizing its work entirely which required depth study of his work and citation of the critic who entitled T. S. Eliot as a “modernist-poet”. This study is retro-spective which requires depth study in order to relate by the previous work done on generalizing T. S. Eliot as a modernist poet. Key words: Modernism; T. S. Eliot, Societal change; Modernist theory Ehsan, M., Khalil, M. Z., Ayub, M. A., Ayub, M. M., Atta, B., & Gill, A. (2016). Modernism in the Eyes of T. S. Eliot: Break From Traditional Writings With Literary Forms and Movements. Studies in Literature and Language, 13 (6), 1-5. Available from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/9093 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/9093 INTRODUCTION This piece of work is based upon the concept of modernism or modernist theory. The scope of this work is to show the modernist viewpoint, so T. S. Eliot has a massive and dominating person of that time. He is also known as pioneer of modernist poetry. We know that modernism is a philosophical movement that started in the late 19 century, and this theory changed the life of the people. Through this movement people changes their habits as well as the standard of life also. Intellectual life was rapidly changing at that time so Eliot shows how modernism effects the people of 20 th century. This research also shows how life of modernist is changed and what are the qualities and characteristics have modernist. Through his writings we highlight the real face of modern man and modern existence. The study wants to show that modern man does not have any kind of hope even they do not believe in the religious concept. The society is pervaded by a sense of alienation and breaks down in communication. Modernism is also known as “the lost generation”, in 1920s American writer brought modernism in the United States. British contemporaries and American’s Modernists excluded the forms and traditional values (Fitzgerald, 1940). The modernist movement totally converted the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century, and its effects are still touched in today. “Modernism is a style or a movement in the literature or art that’s aim to detract from the traditional or classical values and come across with the new latest social values on a wide scale (Peter child, Modernism, second edition )”. The age of modernism is the era that began with illumination (1687 to 1798). In the era of modernity Political leaders also supported the reasons in social changes, they believe with reason and equal social order. Such beliefs nourished the French and American democratic upheaval. Some major events and movements of modernity are urbanization, capitalism, democracy, industrialization, and science. The supporting flags of modernity are individual and freedom (Terry, 1997).