Surrealism is a dangerous word to use about the poet‚ playwright and critic T.S. Eliot‚ and certainly with his first major work‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem‚ after all‚ years before Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism" proper. Andre Breton published his first "Manifesto of Surrealism" in 1924‚ seven years after Eliot’s publication of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It was this manifesto which defined the movement in
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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‚ and how
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extremely advanced for his period in time. Secondly I am going to define the word ’metaphysical’. This refers to the supernatural world of witches and spirits‚ which many people on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries believed in. Some women were even burnt at the stake as they were thought to possess a spirit or to be witches who could do magic and control peoples lives. Therefore we can see that the metaphysical world of things that are beyond reality was a subject that people in the time of Shakespeare
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Most everybody wants a better life for their children than the one they have for themselves. The story of a young man I met and got to know over the years is no different. Tomas was born in a small town near Juarez‚ Mexico‚ where the violence and crime were growing every year. Tomas knew he had to get to the United States‚ where he felt he would find safety and a chance for a better life for his family. I met Tomas at a local Mexican restaurant several years ago in my hometown. My family became regulars
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QUES 1: How did the metaphysical views of the Spanish influence their treatment of the Aztecs? ANS: The metaphysical views of the Spaniards were determined by their Christian beliefs‚ and hence they were at once amazed and repulsed by what they saw: human sacrifices‚ rituals involving bloodletting‚ adoration of pagan gods‚ cannibalism‚ sculptures of what they considered monstrous creatures. They came to believe that Aztec culture as a whole was a manifestation of Satan’s influence. QUES 2: What
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seen as a way of advancing to the next stage and improving the cultural values of the past. However‚ for T.S. Eliot‚ modernity had ruptured its connection to a more vital past and was as a result impoverished. History is instead characterized by regression and ruptures. In his essay‚ “Tradition and the Individual Talent‚” his idea of tradition shows retrogression instead of progression. Eliot argues that “the whole literature of Europe from Homer” (49) is an archive of works affecting authors in the
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Analysis of T.S. Eliot ’s The Waste Land Anita Grace Simpson‚ Yahoo Contributor Network Oct 12‚ 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. Start Here." * ------------------------------------------------- MORE: * ------------------------------------------------- T. S. Eliot FlagPost a comment Thomas Stearns Eliot‚ author of The Waste Land‚ has been called the most influential poet of the twentieth century. He was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ but became a British subject in 1927. For
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This paper focuses on the metaphysical interpretation of kindred notions of Yoruba tribal arts. The region of West Africa that today includes the countries of Nigeria‚ Benin‚ and Togo is the land of the Yoruba people‚ whose art is an essential and integral element in their way of life (see image 1 for the Map of Yorubaland‚ showing major towns). The Yoruba are among the oldest and most influential of all African cultures and today make up one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups. More than 25 million
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John Donne’s metaphysical poetry includes analysis of Donne’s use of topic‚ structure‚ scansion‚ style and theme. John Donne is known as one of the best writers of metaphysical poetry‚ a genre of poetry that is characterized specifically by themes of knowledge‚ intellect‚ and having a somewhat unrecognizable meter or rhyme. Metaphysical poetry forsakes pure and genial nature of other Elizabethan poets. Paradox‚ juxtaposition‚ and philosophy are few of many recurring ideas of metaphysical poems. He had
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Marina By T.S. Eliot “Marina” was one of the first Eliot poems I came to love‚ but I hadn’t read it for quite a while. Ironically‚ it was the political conventions that brought these lines from the poem to mind: Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog‚ meaning Death Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird‚ meaning Death Marina was #29 in Eliot’s series of ”Ariel Poems‚” first published in September‚ 1930. It was based on the Jacobean play‚ Pericles‚ Prince of Tyre. Shakespeare
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