The poet that I am doing my poetry project on is Thomas Stearns Eliot. He is also known as T.S Eliot for short.T.S Eliot was born on September 28, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri and he passed away on January 4, 1965 in London, England. He was able to live until he was 76 years old and then unfortunately died from emphysema. Emphysema is a chronic lung disease that is caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long term exposure to tobacco smoke. Eliot was a chronic smoker and had health problems.
The time period that T.S Eliot lived in was the late 18th century to the mid 19th century. The era that T.S Eliot wrote in was from 1902-1965.
He did not just stay in one location his whole life. Eliot lived and wrote in other places. He lived in St.
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Eliot started his at Smith Academy. From Smith Acadmey Eliot went to Milton. After he went to Milton he attended Havard Univeristy in 1906. Eliot recieved a Bachelor of Arts at Havaed Univeristy in 1906-1909. T.S Eliot also earned a master degree from Havard. Then he left to Paris and Germany to study. Later on he rejoined the university as a doctoral student in philosphy. When he was living with his family Eliot went to Smith academy and then the Milton Academy of Massachusetts as a child. Later on Eliot left his family to attend Harvard university where he graduated with a Bachelors of Arts Degree. He also went to Merton College and Oxford.
T.S Eliot began writing in 1902 when he was only 14 years old. His first published poem was in 1905. At Harvard University, T.S Eliot was greatly influenced by professors renowned in poetry, philosophy and literary career would be shaped by all three of these things. This was the spark of T.S Eliot's poetry career. General look on life was very caring because he was consitly helping others when needed. His mission in life was to develop the tools that would allow him to help others and not just be a sympathic ear. He was generous, kind, and attractive, Humble, carried a deep pride, graceful. Shy bit his
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Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He also won he Tony Award for Best Play in 1950. The play that he did to win the award was allied The Cocktail Party. Eliot won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1981 and he also won the Tiny Award for Best original score in 1983. He also won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical in 1983. Another award that T.S Elio won was the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical in 1983 and also won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play in 1950. Elio won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best foreign Play in 1950. Beside winning the the Nobel Prize in literature, Eliot won lots of awards for plays and musicals. Not also does he have many awards that he won, he also has a award that is named after him. All of these award proved that T.S Eliot received lots of recognition. T.S Eliot receive lots of recognition in the writing community. He was got lots of attention due to his poems that he wrote. The main poems that T.S Eliot wrote that gave him lots of recognition is The Waste Land,The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Four Quarters. T.S Eliot had others jobs besides being a poet. He was a banker at Lloyd's Bank. T.S Eliot was also a teacher at a point in his life. T.S Eliot was also a critic and editor. T.S Eliot served as a literary editor of the Egoist. The Egoist was was a feminist magazine from 1917-1919.
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He enrolled at Roosevelt College and worked sorting files part time while earning his bachelor's degree in education in 1953. In 1956, he got his master's degree at Loyola University in school administration and
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He moved there to attend Fisk University (History.com). After earning his bachelor degree from Fisk, he then attended Harvard University After completing his master's
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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
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.
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
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.
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.
Eliot is not solely criticising modern life in the poem, it also serves as a reflection of Eliot’s social context and his own life, a product of its time.
I think this style of writing is also a reflection of Eliot's feelings about the time. Eliot was more of a Modernist than Victorian poet and as such held to beliefs like: there is no higher power in the universe, man is alone on this planet to govern his own affairs, everyone is truly alone, there is no unity, no support, for we live in a godless heartless world (Stacey Donohue). The floating, confusing, jumbled mix of emotions and directions in this poem mirrors the modernist image of society.