"Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic‚ or elderly man‚ through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th Century.[1] Eliot considered using this already published poem as a preface to The Waste Land‚ but decided to keep it as an independent poem.[2] Along with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste
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enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images‚ there is “painful task of unifying ..‚ jarring and incompatible perspectives“ in The Waste Land. Like a cubist painting‚ there is a kind of variety of narration in unity through
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impossibility of giving a final or absolute interpretation of reality. An important modernist poet is Thomas Eliot‚ he focused on the squallor of XX century’s society and the urban life. Thomas Stearn Eliot was born into the Eliot family of St. Louis‚ Missouri. From 1898 to 1905‚ Eliot was student at Smith Academy‚ a preparatory school for Washington University. At the academy‚ Eliot studied Latin‚ Greek‚ French‚ and German. Upon graduation‚ he could have gone to Harvard University‚ but his
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accurately the sources of ‘The Waste Land’ to specific writing or works of Literature apart from well known origins such as Jessiv Weston’s – ‘From Ritual to Romance 1920 and James Frazer’s ‘The Golden Bough’ 1922. These two books have been identified by Eliot himself‚ along with a number of vegetation and fertility myths and rituals‚ especially those connected with ‘Attis‚ Adonis and Osiris‘. However‚ we do read the echoes of Ovid’s – ‘Metamorphoses’‚ St. Augustine’s ‘Confession’‚ Dante’s- ‘Inferno’ and
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G. Rudzewicz June‚ 2013 A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE USING PUBLIC DOMAIN E-TEXTS I. The Anglo-Saxon Period A. Beowulf Gutenberg Project‚ e-text #981 B. The Seafarer C. Supplementary links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed
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Dedication by Czeslaw Milosz You whom I could not save pay attention to me. Try to comprehend this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I vow‚ there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me‚ for you was lethal. You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one‚ Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty‚ Blind force with accomplished shape. Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense
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Curtis Jones Mrs. Bacon English 2326 8 March 2013 Poetry Analysis for the “Journey of the Magi’ T.S. Eliot was born on September 26‚ 1888 in a small town in Massachusetts. He was the youngest of seven children. Eliot was educated at Smith’s Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He later went to college at Harvard University where he became an editor for the Harvard Advocate which published many of his poems. This lead to his first publication‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred
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and concepts. T.S Eliot is considered as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement Prufrock exemplifies throughout the poem reflects author Eliot’s own struggles in the new modern society. Eliot through his poems
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” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation on the philosopher F. H. Bradley. Because of the war‚ he was unable to return to the United States to receive his degree. He taught
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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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