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Auden and Eliot both used Greek myths in their poetry to explore modern themes and realities. Auden used myths in his poem "The Shield of Achilles" to contrast the idealized classical world with the contemporary world of violence and crime. He depicted the Homeric shield of Achilles depicting natural beauty versus a modern wasteland. Eliot also employed myths in his seminal modernist work "The Waste Land" to convey a sense of loss and death in the modern world by alluding to myths involving fertility, life

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Mohammad Jahidul Islam

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