Eliot as Dramatist

T.S Eliot uses his poem as an outlet to express what he has experienced throughout his personal life through Prufrock. In his poem, he makes the character, Prufrock, becomes very judgmental on himself since Eliot has encountered many self-degrading life lessons. Prufrock believes that his worthlessness terminates his chances of any woman falling in love him and which is the cause of his hesitance to approach women. Eliot is the same way since he got his heartbroken by his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-wood Eliot. Eliot 's “habitable tentativeness” has always restrained him from being with a woman and what Vivienne does to him proves why he was and now always will be skeptical to be with a woman. A man by the name of Russell

The modern society rejected him, and as an outcast, Eliot found himself to be extremely attentive not only to the surrounding world, but aware of a self-identity. Jeannette Winterson writes that Eliot wrote in “a language to luminous that for us is not in any sense a screen but rather a way in,” though Eliot wrote about his own personal experiences and the overwhelming situations and events, the meaning and connection between the composer and the reader creates a universally human meaning. A meaning created from an infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering

I think the first influence on his poetry was his first wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood. Eliot had married Vivienne to stay in England. Their relationship became the storyboard for a play called, Tom and Viv which was made in 1984 which then was adapted to a film in 1994. Vivienne was a great inspiration to Eliot. When Vivienne had an affair with Bertrand Russell, Eliot used this happening in one of the parts in his poem called Mr.Apollinax and Whispers of Immortality

By looking through a critical lens at T Stearns Eliot’s poetry in light of his 20th century, modernist context, much is revealed about his personal and the rapidly evolving societal beliefs of that era. Through his repeating motif of time and fragmentation throughout his poems, Eliot reveals the prevalent feelings of isolation while in society along with the need to hide one’s feelings and emotions in this degrading society. His exploration of the use of ambiguity and stream of consciousness by Eliot, which is a characteristic of modernist artists, allows his work to resound over decades while being interpreted and differently understood by every audience that encounters them.

insight into his life and personality that he is not aware of giving. While the poet

The degradation of traditional values is revealed when Eliot comments on the 'restless nights in one-night cheap hotels', as this insinuates there is a sexual relationship of adulterous or promiscuous nature. This is because any traditional relationship would be done in a more romantic setting, and not in a 'one-night cheap hotel'. Therefore it is permissible to say that Eliot mourns the traditional romantics of the Georgian era. Eliot could be criticising the modern world for its lack of permanent structures when he refers to 'sawdust restaurants'. As one imagines 'sawdust restaurants' to be cheap and only function for a relatively short period of time.

The dramatic monologue “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published in June of 1915. Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri on September 26, 1888, where he grew up and lived until the age of eighteen. After high school, Eliot studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Eventually, Eliot ended up in England where he married his wife Vivien and spent the remainder of his life.

In 1917, he was hired by the Lloyds Bank in London where he dealt with the foreign accounts. While he was working in the bank, he continued to write book reviews and lecture at different colleges. After working a good portion of his life , Eliot left the bank in 1925 and joined the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer where he was made its director in later years. In 1927 Eliot decided to become a British citizen, and during this time Eliot started to realize that his marriage was unhappy and decided he could no longer withstand the stress. Eliot was offered the Charles Eliot Norton professorship by Harvard University in 1932 at just the right time, and took this chance to leave his wife in England. In 1933 he returned to London to get an official separation, Vivienne passed away in 1947 after a long treatment in a mental hospital of London. Ten short years later Eliot would remarry to a beautiful bride; his previous secretary at Faber and Gwyer. He married Esme Valerie Fletcher, a girl much younger than him, on 10 January 1957 in a secret ceremony. Fletcher was nearly 40 years younger than Eliot at the time of their marriage.

The illustration Eliot used in this quote addresses one of the most controversial and debatable questions asked

The formal structure dictated features these random internal cycles created by our poet’s repetition. This ideal of repetition and revisiting time and space, exudes the poems content, which regards the likelihoods of these cycles between people and their experiences. Whitman goes into great depth showing these relationships throughout the poem. For example, “Myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated” (131). Stating how we are a well-joined scheme yet disconnected as a whole we find ways to still function within this scheme. Traversing this ideal of indifference we begin to see his fascination with these contradictions. While they do not stop here our poet takes great pride in his work, questioning almost everything, yet only giving subtle clues to their meaning. We see more patterns merge as we expand into the poem that show off relations between individual and identity. Instances, such as “That I was I know was of my body, and what I should be” (133). Detailing the body more so definitively with our poets “receiving identity from my body” expressing how our bodies are vessels each unique, yet similar in the way we partake in common experiences; finding a balance where the self and the world become one. These mediums are dictated through many of his works, but are used more as a framework for the entirety of poets’ ideals rather than just a single

T.S. .Eliot is a person that believed to be a very cynical man.. T.S. Eliot wrote the poem The Hollow Men which is about

Eliot was living in an era that people were facing a very hard time. World War changed a lot of things for everyone. A lot of cities were destructed and a lot of people were dead and so it was basically a wasteland, and for this reason Eliot was mostly concerned about the society as a whole and how they all want to move on from this mess and not how each individual could be a better

   Thomas Stearns Eliot was not a revolutionary, yet he revolutionized the way the Western world writes and reads poetry. Some of his works were as imagist and incomprehensible as could be most of it in free verse, yet his concentration was always on the meaning of his language, and the lessons he wished to teach with them. Eliot consorted with modernist literary iconoclast Ezra Pound but was obsessed with the traditional works of Shakespeare and Dante. He was a man of his time yet was obsessed with the past. He was born in the United States, but later became a royal subject in England. In short, Eliot is as complete and total a

T.S. Eliot in the twentieth-century wrote what is today widely-regarded as one of the most important text of modernist poems, “The Waste Land.” This poem evaluates many aspects of ancient and contemporary culture and customs, and how the contemporary culture has degraded into a wasteland. In “The Waste Land,” Eliot conjures, through allusions to multiple religions and works of literature in five separate sections, a fragmented and seemingly disjointed poem. Eliot repeatedly alludes to western and eastern cultural foundation blocks to illustrate the cultural degradation prevalent in the modern era of England. One specific eastern example is brought up in the third section of the poem, which T.S. Eliot names “Fire Sermon,” an allusion to

Q5 "Much of what Eliot writes about is harsh and bleak, but he writes about it in a way that is often beautiful". Comment fully on both parts of this assertion.