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Eliot’s poetry is considered aesthetics of absence and presence. The subject in earlier poetry which lacks in the true signified lies in the chain of desire and meaningless language, so the subject goes through frustration. Understood in these terms, the subject in earlier poetry is held to be the signifier without the signified. So it remains clear that the subject in Eliot’s earlier poetry is not a fixed subject at all. Seen from theological point of view, however, Eliot’s poetic subject changes into spiritual subject, which can be a new type of the subject to cope with materialism in the age of late-capitalism. Therefore it must be said that even if the subject in earlier poetry is split, it is complete through Logos in later poetry. Phrased in these terms, this paper aims at dealing with how the subject overcomes the frustration of the signifier, finally showing that Eliot’s poetic subject certainly rejects the Cartesian self in which the subject was further in despair.