Kyle Mootry Charles DeShong American Lit. II 4/24/2013 T.S. Eliot is thoroughly viewed as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century‚ and one of the most important writers of the modernist era. He hated traditional realism by responding against Romantic poetry. His collection of work was extremely experimental and he repeatedly deals with the views of symbolism and imagism in his poetry. America in the early part of the twentieth century was changing quickly and becoming more
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“Four Quartets” Thomas Stearns Eliot The Battle After the Battle "The battle is going very heavily against us. We ’re being crushed by the enemy weight...We are facing very difficult days‚ perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo” (Erwin Rommel). During World War II‚ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel says on behalf of Germany that his army faces the most difficult days they have ever been through. This relates to all soldiers in all wars‚ as well as to people who lost their loved ones from
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Eliot challenges his audience to consider the state of his character’s subconscious living within a corrupted society. Thomas Stearns Eliot’s poems‚ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in 1915‚ and Preludes published in 1917‚ resonate the decay and alienation of Eliot’s characters and civilization. Eliot employs various poetic techniques to challenge the reader to explore social fragmentation of the human psyche and the futility of an industrialization society. Eliot explores seclusion
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Tradition answer in Eliot T.S. Eliot’s essay‚ Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920) is one of the earliest offerings of his literary theory. The essay outlines his philosophy of "tradition" and the implications this has for the poet‚ critic‚ and scholar. Tradition for Eliot includes a much broader definition than is recognized by the popular conception of the term. His idea of tradition includes psychological and philosophical aspects‚ and sets forth of the aims of poetry‚ the role of the poet
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Eliot‚ T. S.‚ in full THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (b. Sept. 26‚ 1888‚ St. Louis‚ Mo.‚ U.S. – d. Jan. 4‚ 1965‚ London‚ Eng.)‚ American-English poet‚ playwright‚ literary critic‚ and editor‚ a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction‚ style‚ and versification revitalized English poetry‚ and in a series of critical
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George Eliot on God and the Good Well known for her atheism‚ Eliot maintained a serious concern with morality and community throughout her life‚ evidenced in her novels and personal letters. She was persistently concerned with how to live a moral life outside organised religion‚ and how to maintain a sense of personal and community responsibility. First I’ll look at some influences on the development of her atheism‚ (and the limits of their influence)‚ then at the kind of religion she rejected
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T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born to a very remarkable New England family on September 26‚ 1888‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri. His father‚ Henry Ware‚ was a very successful businessman and his mother‚ Charlotte Stearns Eliot‚ was a poetess. While visiting Great Britain in 1915‚ World War I started and Eliot took up a permanent residency there. In 1927‚ he became a British citizen. While living in Britain‚ Eliot met and married Vivienne Haigh -Wood and at first everything was wonderful between
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People often struggle with making decisions. In the poem " The Love Song of J.Alfred"byT.S. Eliot‚ Prufrock" is a very indecisive man‚ which leads to depression and loneliness‚ showing that not making decisions leads to emptiness. Eliot shows this through tone and imagery. The use of tone express the indecisiveness of Prufrock. As the poem shows‚ Prufrock is often not sure if he should ask questions or not. One example of this is when Prufrock says‚ "Do a I dare?" (38). Prufrock is questioning
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Journey of the Magi’ has been penned down by Nobel prize winner TS Eliot an is a contrast of experiences based on the nativity of Christ. The monologue describes the journey of the Magi to Bethlahem in search of spiritual pacification and is an account of Eliot’s own conversion to Anglican faith‚ making the journey and objective correlation for Eliot. As per the Gospel story‚ the Magi were the three wise men namely Balthazar- King of Chaldea‚ Gaspor - King of Ethopia‚ Melchoir -King of Nubia who
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