The present study attempts to investigate using metaphor as a powerful tool of pessimism in poetic texts with special emphasis on T.S Eliot’s Waste Land. Eliot’s Waste Land which is heavily pregnant of metaphors is a great epic poetic story summarizes the gloomy circumstances of the European life after the World War I where a complexity of sad feelings dominates the whole five parts of the poem. Eliot vividly used metaphor as an effective means in transferring the real degradation of the European life after the Great War.

This study includes an introduction, significance of the study, choosing the metaphorical pessimistic expressions in Eliot’s Waste Land, questions of the study, objectives of the study, methodology, what is metaphor? functions of metaphor, what is pessimism? The Waste Land, Eliot’s life, why was Eliot pessimist in his great Waste Land? the analysis session, the answers of the study questions and the references.