than to be caught up in a feud with the King, “I fear for the Archbishop, I fear for the Church” (Eliot 17). Indeed, the return of Archbishop Thomas Becket signifies the resurrection of political upheaval and enmity between these two sides of leadership, and the priests become apprehensive of Beckets return (Cedars). The play is evident of central themes that reveal the political thinking of T.S. Eliot. The play seamlessly connects the past with the present revealing the religious act of ritual worship
Murder in the Cathedral By T. S. Eliot In 1163, a quarrel began between the British King Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The men had been good friends, but each felt that his interests should be of primary concern to the nation and that the other should acquiesce to his demands. Becket fled to France in 1164 in order to rally support from the Catholic French for his cause and also sought an audience with the Pope. After being officially (although not personally) reconciled
Thomas Stearns Eliot T.S. Eliot was a poet, critic, and an editor. He was a major figure in English poetry, famous for works such as "The Waste Land," and "The Sacred Wood." His critical essays helped to start a movement of literary modernism by stressing tradition, along with objective discipline. Eliot, along with the help of William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound set new poetic standards by rejecting the English romantics. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, MO. on September 26th
T.S Eliot is considered one of the most important modernist poets during his time. In fact, modernism was viewed as "a rejection of traditional 19th-century norms, where artists, architects, poets, and thinkers alike either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re-envision a society in flux" (Britannica). Modernism mainly represented by an orientation towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple points of view different from the Victorian and Romantic
T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral tells the story of Thomas Beckett, a man who reigned as Archbishop of Canterbury during the 12th century in England until his death in 1170. In order to tell Beckett's story, Eliot creates a series of equally interesting characters that each play a crucial role thought the play. The most unique rolefound within the play is the Women ofCanterbury, or the Chorus. Throughout the piece, the Chorus delivers seven choral odes. These choral odes, when looked at as a
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte (Stearns) Eliot, who was active in social reform and was herself a not-untalented poet. Both parents were descended from families that had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. William Greenleaf Eliot, the poet's paternal grandfather, had, after his graduation from Harvard in the 1830s, moved to St. Louis, where
poems, and that was why only seven of her poems were published in her lifetime. The later part of her life was spent in mourning because of several deaths in a few years time. Emily’s father died in 1874, both her mother and Wadsworth in 1882, and her nephew in 1883. Over those years due to the amounts of deaths she encountered, the theme of death became more prevalent in Emily’s poems. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886. As a result of her life of solitude, it is said by some that she is
formal role in Victorian society and were legally subject to their husbands in all things but Eliot in Middlemarch manages to imbue her female protagonists with a sense of stoicism that renders them a force to be reckoned with, especially if their marriages are under any threat. Robert McCrum in The Guardian described it thus “Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence
poetry is beyond the natural; it takes something physical and pushes the meaning from natural to something philosophical. T.S. Eliot argues that the term metaphysical was only used for Johnson to describe John Donne’s difficult imagery, and therefore we should reconsider using the term so loosely to describe a larger group of poets (Eliot 249). Whether one agree with Eliot or not, upon delving solely into Donne’s poetry, one will see that his work is in fact metaphysical. What John Donne does in his
Futility of Life Exposed in T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men The 'Hollow Men', by T.S Eliot, is a reflection on the emptiness, futility and misery of modern life. It is also a reflection on the problems involved in human communication, and on the meaning (or lack of it) to life. Eliot uses religious and desert symbolism, biblical and literary allusions, repetition, parody and deliberately sparse, controlled language to convey the themes of the poem. The poem opens with two epigraphs