In this final chapter I extend the presentation of the vortex from Chapter 4, where I nominated it as the presiding structural metaphor of both the Tentation and The Waste Land, to refer to its more comprehensive function as a metaphor for ascetic experience. To provide a sense of continuity with the preceding discussion, I begin by defining the geometrical properties of the vortex that affirm its suitability for the role it performs in relation to my two principal texts, before embarking on a more general overview of its presence and character within Eliot's work. Discussion then turns to the vortex's emblematic status elsewhere in modernism, focusing particularly on the formulations of Yeats and Pound, who – although their applications are highly idiosyncratic – share common influences for the employment of such a symbol.