T.S Eliot

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.

T.S. Eliot, was a renowned poet within the early 20th century whose poetry was largely influenced by the effects of the modernism era. His poems were reflective of contextual concerns such as the Enlightenment period, and largely explored the thematic concerns of desire whilst simultaneously exploiting the tension of human suffering. Eliot, in his poems, explores the ambiguity of identity explicitly through both The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Prelude. Both poems examine the complexities of human suffering through a post World War climate and capitalises upon the revolution of industrialisation. Concurrently, the excerpt of Jeanette Winterson's critique and commentary of Eliot's poetry within the BBC documentary, Arena: T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns [TS] Eliot was born in into a wealthy family in St Louis, Missouri, America in 1888

Throughout his college years, Eliot was active in the writing of literature, even having some of his early poetry published in the Harvard Advocate. In England, Eliot met and befriended fellow expatriate Ezra Pound, who was very

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

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock” may be accurately described as an amalgam of synergistic emotions—among them self-doubt, longing, fear, regret, and indecisiveness—which, through the alchemy of poetry, work in tandem to create and communicate an overwhelming sense of anxiety. These emotions serve as cataracts upon the lens through which the poem’s narrator views both himself and the city streets he travels. Overwhelmed by an “overwhelming question” (10) the narrator—perhaps more terrified by the sheer gravity of the “overwhelming question” (10) than the numerous other fears and self-doubts the narrator presents to the reader—never unequivocally specifies, the poem’s persona makes a journey through both city and mind to

Everyone knows that life is not always easy and that there a myraid of sad situations that occur daily. In the poem Rhapsody On a Windy Night by T. S Eliot, the speaker is trying to escape the day to day issues by taking an all night walk, only to realize that the troubles of the day roll over into different, but equally as troubling problems. T. S Eliot uses multiple different comparison tequniques such as similes. It is midnight and the speaker is walking down the street describing the darkness. Than they start to notice the street lamps: “Every street lamp that I pass/Beats like a fatalistic drum”( 8-9).

In Tradition and the Individual Talent, T.S. Eliot makes an argument against artists expressing their own emotions and their own personal experiences to a work of art. Eliot goes into detail in how personal experiences in a work of art would essentially be pushing your own emotions on to the reader whether they want them or not. He also highlights the benefits of allowing the text to speak for itself, in a sense. Eliot believes that true art is art that can give its own emotions without the input of the author. Choosing words carefully in such a way that no personal

In this text entitled Charlotte Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", the author attempts to explain how Charlotte influenced the works of his son, especially the one mentioned in the title of this article.

George Eliot is from England and is known for her novels set in rural England. George grew up in England with her mother and father who were a strict Methodist family. George never really thought anything

Eliot is a master artist, but of words rather than watercolors or pastels. The reader may not understand all the images, and might be sent searching through the texts that Eliot alludes

Having support from his close friend, Ezra Pound, Eliot had became well known in the international movement of avant garde (poetryarchive.org). The next few years in Eliot’s growing success was also a time of rising family issues. His father, Henry Eliot, passed away in 1919. Eliot was facing a “paroxysm of guilt” and at the same time, Vivien’s health was declining. He then went through a nervous breakdown, and spent the next three months on a strict rest. It was during this time that Eliot finished writing a piece that he had began working on in 1919 but never finished (english.illinois.edu). Finally, he was able to publish The Waste Land in 1922. It was “considered by many to be the single most influential poetic work of the twentieth century”

   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

Although Modernism is very difficult to define and pinpoint, the Modern writers in England certainty changed the age with their writing. While there were many famous writers of the time, a very distinct and powerful writers was T.S. Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri (Greenblatt 1298). Although T.S. Eliot was born in the United States, he was just as much of a Modern English writer as any other writer was during the Modern Age. T.S. Eliot marveled his writing, leaving the Modern age forever change. Through his many years of writing, he accomplished a great deal through his writing and influence. One of his more notable works was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Although the piece is rather frustrating at times to read with J.

In our daily lives, we are too busy to do the things that we always want to do. So, we live lives of boring repetition. However, we have become adjusted to it so almost none of us complain. T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri and eventually moved to London, England. Extremely well educated, Eliot wrote many highly praised poems. For example, The Waste Land was assembled out of dramatic vignettes based on Eliot’s London life. Another poem, Preludes, talks about the daily lives of people where it starts off simple, but leads into something deeper than everyday life. Three reasons why I relate to Preludes by T.S. Eliot are evenings, mornings, and spiritually.