Essay on The Sacred Wood and Began the Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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

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.

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.

T.S. Eliot characterizes his speaker in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” based on his own personal experiences. In 1915, Eliot wrote one of his most famous poems as a skeptic (Schneider 1103). He constantly questioned the meaning of human life and the reasons why human beings were created at all. In the same way, Prufrock also has a difficult time in finding the purpose of his long life. The speaker of this poem takes the reader on a journey so that maybe the listener can aid him in finding meaning to his life. Throughout T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator is overwhelmed by the nothingness in his life through the characterization of himself, the wandering to many different settings, and the feeling of death approaching him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, a talented poet that focused on Transcendentalism in his poetry had quite the history. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25th, 1803. What he managed to accomplish throughout his life span was extremely impressive due to the fact that his father passed away early. Although, he was left in a state near poverty and had to live with his mother and his aunt, Mr. Emerson was able to thrive in these burdensome conditions.

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

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

On May 25, 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston Massachusetts. He is the son of Rev. William Emerson and Ruth Haskins and the brother of six other siblings. Emerson was raised by both of his parents until his father tragically died of stomach cancer on May 12, 1811 before young Ralph could even have his eighth birthday. Afterwards, he was raised by his mother and the other women in his family. The very young and intellectual Emerson had abundance of opportunities for schooling in New England until his family decided on Boston Latin School in 1812 for basic school studies. Now as an adolescent Emerson is sent for post secondary school at Harvard College in October 1817 at age fourteen .

It was during this time that she began to suffer from the kidney problems that eventually killed her. She was also plagued by chronic head and tooth aches during this time (Karl, 545). Despite her physical ailments Eliot meticulously researched the book. She took Hebrew lessons with Emanuel Deutsch and the character of Mordecai Cohen is said to be based on him. She also read extensively about Jewish culture and tradition. In a letter Eliot’s would be spouse, George Henry Lewes, writes that of the two buying Judaic books and visiting a synagogue in Frankfurt in the summer of 1873 (Karl, 527).

read “The Bonfire” in 1916. In 1918 he received honorary M.A. from Amherst college. He was

Eliot was also know for some of the many plays he had written, many of which had been played over and over again in New York and throughout England alongside his poems and critics. Some of his later plays, mainly the ones after his release of the “Four Quartets”, were better known, like “The Family Reunion”, “The Cocktail Party”, “The Confidential Clerk”, and “The Elder Statesman”. Though had made a great many plays the one that was considered the best among them was considered to be “ The Cocktail Party”. Eliot had also created a great sum of plays called drawing-room plays, plays that would be acted out in a drawing room or a drawing room set on stage, and though they did not have much flare in them they all had Eliot's great vocals in 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.

George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born on November 22, 1819 in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England to an estate agent, Robert Evans, and Christina Pearson. Eliot was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her father believed that because she did not have physical beauty, she would not get married; therefore, he put more money into her education. She and her sister attended Mrs. Wallington’s School at Nuneaton from 1828 to 1832, where she became influenced by Maria Lewis, the principal governess, who taught her to accept the idea of God and religion. While she was in school, she learned French and Italian, but when her mother died, she had to move back in with her father. After her brother got married, he took over the family house, so Eliot and her father moved to Coventry.

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, first published in eight installments during 1871. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and it comprises several distinct stories and a large cast of characters. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education