مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

The literary impact of The Bible on English poetry has been wide and pervasive. In fact, The Bible has always provided English poets with canonical themes and modulated their literary style. It has provided a vocabulary, beautiful quotations, maxims and phrases to them too. This paper is set to get away from contemporary literary criticism and discourse concerns as it focuses on the features of the contemporary religious culture, which is changing rapidly in W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot’s short poems. Dealing with the same topic of “The Magi” coincidently, we concentrate on the different aspects of their religious culture and its importance on the style of the two poets. In addition, we believe that such aspects and differences in their style will be dedicated to understanding their contemporary culture from their different points of views of the world and religion. This view helps us to understand today’s cultural facets especially the religious points of view by the two poets and enableus to see the relations of religion with today’s culture. The paper finds out that Yeats and Eliotredefine the Magi story, according to their imagination and the strains of the times. Eliot focuses on the salvation of man and his society through the memory of the Magi. Yeats conveys to his readers the symbol of stars, the prophetic priests, and history. Keywords: Bible, The Magi, Zoroastrianism, religious culture, allusions