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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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    T.S. Eliot is often regarded as a poetic genius of his time and frequently‚ to this day as well. He lived a fairly‚ normal life as he grew up in St. Louis‚ Missouri then later attended Harvard University. Eventually‚ he left the United States for Sorbonne‚ England and returned to Harvard to study some more and ended up back in England where he became under the influence of Ezra Pound. Pound recognized Eliot’s poetic talent and assisted in many of his publications and influenced his work. What stood

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    Holberg Suite, Prelude

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    The clinician‚ Mrs. May‚ began with the first movement of the Holberg Suite‚ Prelude‚ composed by Edvard Grieg. In the beginning of the piece‚ there is a segment consisting of a rhythm with an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes. Mrs. May decided to have the orchestra play the G major scale with the same rhythm. She wanted to focus on improving the group’s tempo‚ rhythm‚ and markings for the piece. After playing the scale in the ideal tempo‚ the orchestra was able to successfully incorporate

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    T.S. Eliot the Wasteland

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    ’Oh keep the Dog far hence‚ that’s friend to men‚ ’Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again! ’You! Hypocrite lecteur! – mon semblable‚ - mon frère!’ T.S. Eliot‚ “The Burial of the Dead”‚ The Waste Land‚ lines 60-76. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is a Modernist piece of literature. Combining “traditional content” and radical style‚ Eliot has captured the tension between past and present. For him‚ the past is at once nostalgic‚ yet responsible for the present shared post-war “sense of desolation

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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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    Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com PinkMonkey® Literature Notes on . . . Sample MonkeyNotes Note: this sample contains only excerpts and does not represent the full contents of the booknote. This will give you an idea of the format and content. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot MonkeyNotes Edited by Diane Sauder PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc. Copyright © 1997-1999‚ All Rights Reserved. Distribution without the written consent of PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc

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    TS Eliot and Tradition

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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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    T.S Eliot "The Wasteland"

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    T.S Eliot-"The Wasteland" In T.S Eliot’s wide-ranging poem "The Wasteland‚" the reader journeys through the industrial metropolis of London by means of multiple individualistic narratives concerning the inert existence of those living in a place consumed by a fast paced economy. Eliot focuses on the negativity that a cold and synthetic setting can impose on the natural human qualities of a society‚ almost completely wiping out necessary characteristics like compassion and enthusiasm. The city

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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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    Analysis of T.S. Eliots 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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