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T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was an American poet and playwright. He won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Order of Merit. His notable works are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land.

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What is the critical summary of the poem departures and arrivals by T.S. Eliot?

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Summary: William Blake's poem "A Poison Tree" explores the consequences of hatred. Blake describes two situations, one in which the speaker is angry with a friend and one in which the speaker is angry with an enemy, and shows how anger can manifest itself into something detrimental, inhumane, and deadly. Blake's portrayal of a bitter, wrathful, angry, and cold atmosphere, and his use of diction, metaphors, and symbolism, all depict the deep level of seriousness contained in the poem.

The poem "A Poison Tree", written by the poet William Blake is basically about the consequences of hatred. The poem starts off with the speakerdescribing two situations in which both involve anger and cold feelings. In the first situation, the speaker is angry with his friend, but due to the fact that he's a friend, the speaker confronts him about his feelings and they work out their differences and the negative feelings vanish. In the second scenario however, the speaker feels anger towards his enemy and this time, unlike the first situation, the speaker bottles his feelings up and does not express his emotions freely. This therefore turns into hatred that gradually builds up until it manifests into an apple; something that may look beautiful and harmless on the outside, but poisonous and full of venom on the inside (Adam and Eve). This apple,...

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What is T.S. Eliot's impersonal theory of poetry?

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If anything I would say the opposite is true. Since roughly the 1950's and poets like Robert Lowell, a great deal of modern poetry has been what is called Confessional, meaning the writer actually writes about himself. Previous to that it was considered sort of taboo to write about oneself. Of course, in academic poetry the trend is, and always has been, to be so complex that the reader may feel excluded from the process. This may seem contrary to the goal of communicating, but since the academic poets ultimate audience is other academic poets overseeing public funding, they often appear to not be concerned with the reader at all.

The Beat movement, followed by the Small Press and subsequent Outlaw and Outsider movements depend on readers so they actually try to write poems people can understand and relate to. That's how I try to write myself. <a href=http://www.zombielogicpress.com>Zombie Logic</a>

What famous books written by T.S. Eliot?

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T.S. Eliot is famous for his poem the wastland and quotes like "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper" if you want to know more T.S. Eliot quotes, go to BrainyQuotes.comand search T.S. Eliot.

What is TS Eliot's contribution to modern poetry?

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T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock" (1915) is considered the masterpiece of Modernistic poetry. Eliot's poem makes use of stream of consciousness, a characteristic of Modernism, to relay the thoughts of the narrator. Prufrock is an outdated man, who laments his inability to grow spiritually and physically, and he especially laments his inability to cardinally engage a woman.

I suggest you read articles on Modernist poetry, and then read Eliot's poem. Modernists believed that traditional, outdated views of life could not keep up with the new industrial world.

Why did Ezra Pound influence TS Eliot?

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because he hipnotized him

What are the novels of TS ELIOT?

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Eliot wrote many poems, but among his most famous are: The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. He also wrote seven plays during his lifetime.

For his mastery of the English language, T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

What is the preludes by T S eliot about?

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It is similar to The Waste Land in that it talks about a destitute society seemingly devoid of morality.

What is T.S. Eliot's point of view in the hollow men?

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we are hollow inside. we are soulless. we do nothing

What is TS Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' about?

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Lawrence S. Rainey and Robert Von Hallberg - Editorial/Introduction - Modernism/Modernity 1:1 Modernism/Modernity 1.1 (1994) 1-3 Editorial/Introduction Lawrence Rainey and Robert von Hallberg We begin this journal in the belief that the artistic movement known as modernism produced the most radical and comprehensive changes in western culture since romanticism. Here would be the place to list those changes, if only they were all nameable and known, like characters in a chapter of yesterday's reading. Instead we sense that the effects of modernism still reverberate through all the arts, and its products surround us in the buildings where we work, the houses and apartments where we live, and even the chairs where we sit now trying to itemize its effects. Modernism was more than a repertory of artistic styles, more too than an intellectual movement or set of ideas; it initiated an ongoing transformation in the entire set of relations governing the production, transmission, and reception of the arts. The...

What is classic- t s eliot?

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How many wives did T.S. Eliot have?

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I am pretty sure Frost had one wive named Elinor White but after her death in 1938 he became infatuated with a Kay Morrison and wrote her one of his most define love poems "A Witness Tree."

What modernist theme is present in the poem Gerontion by T.S. Eliot?

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There are several modernist themes included within Gerontion, but religion and sexuality are the two most prominent in my humble opinion.

What awards did T.S. Eliot win?

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Acceptance Speech

When I began to think of what I should say to you this evening, I wished only to express very simply my appreciation of the high honour which the Swedish Academy has thought fit to confer upon me. But to do this adequately proved no simple task: my business is with words, yet the words were beyond my command. Merely to indicate that I was aware of having received the highest international honour that can be bestowed upon a man of letters, would be only to say what everyone knows already. To profess my own unworthiness would be to cast doubt upon the wisdom of the Academy; to praise the Academy might suggest that I, as a literary critic, approved the recognition given to myself as a poet. May I therefore ask that it be taken for granted, that I experienced, on learning of this award to myself, all the nornal emotions of exaltation and vanity that any human being might be expected to feel at such a moment, with enjoyment of the flattery, and exasperation at the inconvenience, of being turned overnight into a public figure? Were the Nobel Award similar in kind to any other award, and merely higher in degree, I might still try to find words of appreciation: but since it is different in kind from any other, the expression of one's feelings calls for resources which language cannot supply.

I must therefore try to express myself in an indirect way, by putting before you my own interpretation of the significance of the Nobel Prize in Literature. If this were simply the recognition of merit, or of the fact that an author's reputation has passed the boundaries of his own country and his own language, we could say that hardly any one of us at any time is, more than others, worthy of being so distinguished. But I find in the Nobel Award something more and something different from such recognition. It seems to me more the election of an individual, chosen from time to time from one nation or another, and selected by something like an act of grace, to fill a peculiar role and to become a peculiar symbol. A ceremony takes place, by which a man is suddenly endowed with some function which he did not fill before. So the question is not whether he was worthy to be so singled out, but whether he can perform the function which you have assigned to him: the function of serving as a representative, so far as any man can be of thing of far greater importance than the value of what he himself has written. Poetry is usually considered the most local of all the arts. Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, can be enjoyed by all who see or hear. But language, especially the language of poetry, is a different matter.

Poetry, it might seem, separates peoples instead of uniting them.

But on the other hand we must remember, that while language constitutes a barrier, poetry itself gives us a reason for trying to overcome the barrier. To enjoy poetry belonging to another language, is to enjoy an understanding of the people to whom that language belongs, an understanding we can get in no other way. We may think also of the history of poetry in Europe, and of the great influence that the poetry of one language can exert on another; we must remember the immense debt of every considerable poet to poets of other languages than his own; we may reflect that the poetry of every country and every language would decline and perish, were it not nourished by poetry in foreign tongues. When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all the poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also. And at the same time he himself is speaking to younger poets of other languages, and these poets will convey something of his vision of life and something of the spirit of his people, to their own. Partly through his influence on other poets, partly through translation, which must be also a kind of recreation of his poems by other poets, partly through readers of his lanaguage who are not themselves poets, the poet can contribute toward understanding between peoples. In the work of every poet there will certainly be much that can only appeal to those who inhabit the same region, or speak the same language, as the poet. But nevertheless there is a meaning to the phrase «the poetry of Europe», and even to the word «poetry» the world over. I think that in poetry people of different countries and different languages - though it be apparently only through a small minority in any one country - acquire an understanding of each other which, however partial, is still essential. And I take the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, when it is given to a poet, to be primarily an assertion of the supra-national value of poetry. To make that affirmation, it is necessary from time to time to designate a poet: and I stand before you, not on my own merits, but as a symbol, for a time, of the significance of poetry.

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Prior to the acceptance, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks:

«Humility is also the characteristic which you, Mr. Eliot, have come to regard as man's virtue. At first it did not appear that this would be the final result of your visions and your acuity of thought. Born in the Middle West, where the pioneer mentality was still alive, brought up in Boston, the stronghold of Puritan tradition, you came to Europe in your youth and were there confronted with the pre-war type of civilization in the Old World: the Europe of Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, the Third Republic, and The Merry Widow. This contact was a shock to you, the expression of which you brought to perfection in The Waste Land, in which the confusion and vulgarity of the civilization became the object of your scathing criticism. But beneath that criticism there lay profound and painful disillusionment, and out of this disillusionment there grew forth a feeling of sympathy, and out of that sympathy was born a growing urge to rescue from the ruins of the confusion the fragments from which order and stability might be restored. The position you have long held in modern literature provokes a comparison with that occupied by Sigmund Freud, a quarter of a century earlier, within the field of psychic medicine. If a comparison might be permitted, the novelty of the therapy which he introduced with psychoanalysis would match the revolutionary form in which you have clothed your message. But the path of comparison could be followed still further. For Freud the most profound cause of the confusion lay in the Unbehagen in der Kultur of modern man. In his opinion there must be sought a collective and individual balance, which should constantly take into account man's primitive instincts. You, Mr. Eliot, are of the opposite opinion. For you the salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition, which, in our more mature years, lives with greater vigour within us than does primitiveness, and which we must preserve if chaos is to be avoided. Tradition is not a dead load which we drag along with us, and which in our youthful desire for freedom we seek to throw off. It is the soil in which the seeds of coming harvests are to be sown, and from which future harvests will be garnered. As a poet you have, Mr. Eliot, for decades, exercised a greater influence on your contemporaries and younger fellow writers than perhaps anyone else of our time.»

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967.

What is a thesis statement about T.S. Eliot?

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When was Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats created?

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The Old Gumbie Cat (Jennyanydots)

Growltiger

Rum tum tugger

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser

Old Deutoronomy

Rumpus Cat (Pekes and the Pollicles)

Mr Mistoffoles

Macavity

Gus the theatre cat (Asparagus)

Bustopher Jones

Skimbleshanks

Cat Morgan (1952 edition)

The other poems that don't introduce cats are the naming of cats, the aweful battle of the pekes and the pollicles and the intervention of the great rumpus cat and the addressing of cats. Cat morgan does not appear in the musical and growltiger and pekes and the pollicles only appear in some productions.

How long did ts eliot take to write waste land?

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At the very shortest, it took him about a year: in 1921(the poem was published in 1922) he wrote that he had "a long poem in mind and partly on paper which I am wishful to finish."

What church did T.S. Eliot go to?

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No, he was an Anglican.

How did TS Eliot moving to England affect his parents?

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he had no children.

What does the T in TS Elliot stand for?

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Stearns. His full name was Thomas Stearns Eliot.

When was ts eliot born?

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TS Eliot died in London in 1965 of emphysema from heavy smoking.

Did t s eliot smoke?

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Is ts eliot fond of cats in his poem the mystery cat?

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According to Wikipedia, the poems in this book were written during the 1930s in letters to his godchildren.

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