Eliot writes of culture as "the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts‚ in their social system‚ in their habits and customs‚ in their religion.(Milner‚ A (1994) Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: UCC Press.) A culture‚ then according to Eliot is one which is shared in common by a whole people‚ although he believed it was not shared equally between the people. Eliot divided the people into two groups‚ the elite
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Thomas Stearns Eliot born on September 26 1888 lived in St. Louis‚ Missouri the seventh child of Charlotte Stearns and Henry Eliot. He attended a plethora of colleges ‚ but received his degrees at Harvard University earning his Bachelor’s in June of 1909‚ his Masters in February of 1911 and Ph.D courses in October 1911 through May 1914. In the year 1915-1916 he went to Oxford University and spent time publishing his doctoral dissertation in philosophy of F.H Bradley in 1964. Later on‚ he focused
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot is a poem I would not recommend anyone still trying to hang on to his or her youth. T. S. Eliot’s poem‚ about a man named J. Alfred Prufrock‚ is a pessimistic poem looking at the seemingly wasted life of an aging man. The poem is told from the viewpoint of a very sad man named J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem takes place in the city of St. Louis‚ which T. S. Eliot does not portray in a very good light. T. S Eliot’s creation of a depressing mood‚ powerful
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Land” is a complex and fragmented poem that underwent major revisions before it was published in 1922. The published version we see and read today is actually shorter in comparison to what Eliot had originally written. According to James Torrens’s article “The Hidden Years if the Waste Land Manuscript‚” Eliot had mailed “54 pages of The Waste Land‚ including the unused parts” to John Quinn‚ a “corporation lawyer in New York City‚” which had shortly disappeared after Quinn’s death in July of 1924
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of their life as they lead it in practical contexts to the levels of idealism they are expected to reach as set forth by their religion. KEYWORDS: Eliot‚ Culture‚ Religion‚ Christianity‚ Theology. INTRODUCTION For Eliot‚ religion is Christianity. In other words‚ a life of conformity to Christian religious ideals is Eliot’s precondition for culture. Eliot envisages a stratified society in which the upper layer of citizens who believe in traditional Christianity will activate and determine the behavior
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T. S. Eliot … His theory of Poetic Drama & His role in the revival of Poetic Drama 1) Critical review on Eliot’s theory of Poetic Drama: Eliot is one of the greatest writers and poets in the history of the English literature. He has made great contributions in the favor of لصالح the development and flourishment إزدهار of literature as a whole. He wants to be unique فريد and to have his own style that distinguishes him from other writers‚ so he breaks the rules and decides to pay a keen interest
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titled‚ “The Burial of the Dead” by employing Eliot’s “theory of impersonality” and certain principles of New Criticism. It seeks to examine how Eliot subverts his personality and emerges as a catalyst in the Burial of the Death by using various element such as as paradox‚ unity of structure and contrastive imagery to ensure the organic unity of the poem. To Eliot‚ a poem or a work of art is thing in itself . Following The New Critics tradition of relying heavily on use of paradox‚ irony and ambiguity
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only speculate. However‚ comparisons between the character of "Prufrock" and Eliot himself beg to be made. Eliot’s earlier signature was "T. Stearns Eliot"closely resembling that of his meticulously developed character in the poem. Eliot privately expressed frustration to friends that he was still a virgin at age 26‚ and had great difficulty interacting with women‚ which is the subject at the root of this poem. Eliot opens the poem with a passage from Dante’s Inferno‚ specifically the passage
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call it a disaster. One of these few people is T. S. Eliot‚ who wrote an essay called “Hamlet and his Problems” in which he verbally attacks Shakespeare and claims that the storyline of “Hamlet” is more mixed up than the character himself. He firmly believes that because of the main characters random lunacy in almost every scene‚ that “Hamlet” was a failure in its purpose to stress the heartbreak caused by death and revenge. Sadly however‚ Eliot deeply misunderstands the importance of Hamlets madness
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series of characters‚ settings‚ and relationships‚ the majority of which are sterile and desolate. Appleyard considers the mood that dominates the poem‚ “The one connecting device is a mood of despair‚ of barren dislocation”. Within the Waste Land Eliot persistently presents a modern world which is full of isolation and despair using each of the portraits of either settings‚ characters or through the depiction of relationships to express this attitude up modern society.. The first character we are
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