Yeats's Purgatory and Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
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Thus, after reflecting over the use of symbolism and its relevance, which has been executed by the playwrights, in these three plays, it can clearly be said that "Symbolism, as seen in the writers of our day, would have no value if it were not seen also, under one disguise or another, in every great imaginative writer” (Symons, and Ellmann, 2004: 2).... However, now life has lost all its vitality and appeal and it exists now only as a ruined, void house where “The souls in Purgatory that come back/To habitations and familiar spots” (Yeats, 1994: 51)....