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T. S. Eliot
"Prufrock" shows isolation from society according to a specific time and place: London in the early 20th century. The narrator describes having much time for trivial matters, stating There will...
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot developed his theory of impersonality in his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent." In this essay, he states: Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from...
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T. S. Eliot
For T.S. Eliot and certainly other poets, writing poetry can indeed be an escape from emotion and personality. For others, poetry is actually a way to process their emotions and demonstrate who...
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T. S. Eliot
I would personally agree that time and place are used in Eliot's poetry to shape the reader's intellectual and emotional response. In "Love Song," Prufrock, the narrator, is a failed person (Ezra...
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
One reason why T.S. Eliot is worthy of critical study is because of the disenchantment expressed in his poems. There will always be sadness in the world. Despite its preponderance, we have a...
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's poem "Marina" is based on a play by William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. In this play, the protagonist Pericles survives a rather improbable series of shipwrecks. In the...
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T. S. Eliot
To write a critical analysis of a poem, we first want to make a decision on the overall theme of the poem. We then want to literally criticize the poem, meaning "judge [its] merits and and faults"...
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T. S. Eliot
Compare Eliot to JoyceEliot and Joyce compare favorably in that each was innovative and experimental, bringing new styles or forms to English literature. They contrast in that Eliot was prolific in...
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is considered one of the most important poets in the modernist movement. Many aspects of his poetry influenced subsequent forms of modernism in literature. His critical essays,...
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Essay Lab
Eliot is probably one of the toughest writers to emulate. He has a distinct style because he possessed a broad understanding of Classical allusion within an arsenal of literary understanding. In...
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T. S. Eliot
Modern poetry requires discussion of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Eliot had a profound impact on the development of Modernism, occurring from the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century....
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T. S. Eliot
The theme of universal brotherhood is one which rejects all racial, social, religious, economic or other forms of classification or heirarchy, and instead makes the argument that all men are of one...
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Reference
While I was not able to think of or find a poem specifically related to starting a new job or a new "work life," I did think of something T.S. Eliot wrote about beginnings and endings. It can be...
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T. S. Eliot
In theme (the impending collapse of cultural unity and collective consciousness, the beginning of a subjective sensibility free of social conformity), all the “modern” poets share Eliot’s...
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The Waste Land
T S Eliot makes no attempt to simplify his poetry and expects the reader to approach it with an open mind. The Waste Land is typical of his style and his intention to introduce the reader to a...
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T. S. Eliot
For T. S. Eliot, one of the big problems with the modern age was precisely how far it removed humans from the past and from their history. This is something that he sought to emphasise in his...
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Spring and All
T.S. Eliot’s famous Wasteland turns his modernist perspective into a fictional, symbolic landscape, in which he sees the world as bereft of harmony or peace. Williams, on the other hand,...
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T. S. Eliot
Eliot's "poetic genius," as defined by Kermode, can be observed in the work of Eliot as he describes characters, themes or topics that show the condition of the Modern way of life, which is defined...
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T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot's poem "To the Indians Who Died in Africa" is one about men who reminisce in their old age about fighting a war in a foreign country--much like today as the western nations fight in...
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T. S. Eliot
Eliot's poetry focuses on developing a picture of contemporary life in Britain that paints a somewhat bleak picture of man and life. Key themes in his work are the alienation and loneliness of the...
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T. S. Eliot
The poem is all about, consoling the lamenting family members of Indian soldiers. The poet brings out the significance of doing one's duty for the common cause selflessly. For that, he takes the...
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T. S. Eliot
One should keep in mind that no human beings are distant, unfamiliar or far off. Underneath any colour of any soldier’s uniform belonging to any nation, another human being breathes the breath of...
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T. S. Eliot
You can be a recluse from life by not really doing much. However, everyone is going to die eventually. To me, this means that you might as well live your life, because you are not going to be...
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T. S. Eliot
The poem "To the Indians Who Died in Africa" is written in the voice of a British soldier speaking to soldiers from the Indian subcontinent. This suggests that the British soldier may have been the...
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T. S. Eliot
Given that this question is posted under T. S. Eliot, I can only assume that you are examining a poem by him which speak to the ideas of both love and reminiscence. Unfortunately, Eliot has many...
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T. S. Eliot
The poem in question, T. S.Eliot's "Choruses from the Rock," speaks to the idea of of sin and solid foundations in life. Mat 7:24-27 (NIV): "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and...
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T. S. Eliot
The following quote was taken from T. S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding": "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place...
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T. S. Eliot
The concept of the “dissociation of sensibility” is actually a theoretical position espoused by T.S. Eliot to explain why he considered Augustan and Victorian poetry in some way lacking a...
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T. S. Eliot
A starting point for reading “The Hippopotamus” is the biographical fact that T. S. Eliot was a devout member of the Church of England (also called the Anglican Church). This is a Protestant...
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's most sustained and comprehensive statement of his own theories of literary criticism can be found in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920). In this work, Eliot...
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T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot's quote strikes at a couple of points that he embodied in his work. The first is that there is not really an objective set of criteria that facilitates the communication of poetry....
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T. S. Eliot
If you have been assigned to analyze a poem strictly on its literary devices, you will not be analyzing the poetic devices (such as sound elements, rhyme, rhythm, repetition). You should be aware...
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T. S. Eliot
Eliot utilizes several literary devices to convey his twist on the story of Christ's birth, and, as expected, most of them are religious symbols and allusions. The first is expressed literally in...
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T. S. Eliot
Put simply, only by "pushing the envelope" can you find out what you are capable of. Eliot here is saying that only when humans test their potential by "going too far" can they discover their...
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T. S. Eliot
The poem is a humorous criticism of the failure of modern criminal justice systems. A cat may break any law and humans would be legally powerless. It also alludes to humans inherent nature to...
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T. S. Eliot
Stanza 1:Wherever a man may be, there is one place he yearns to be and the place is his home, his native place. He longs for his home and hearth, for the food cooked by his wife. He wishes to sit...
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T. S. Eliot
In T.S. Eliot's "Landscape" are the many images of nature, especially birds. There are about seventeen kinds of birds here. There is also the images are of children playing, a deer hunt, and...
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T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
We need to identify how T. S. Eliot contributed something unique to poetry through his work. Certainly it is hard work to read his poetry and even harder to understand it, however, if we persevere...
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T. S. Eliot
This poem deals with the idea enshrined in the Bhagwad Gita that it is sufficient to do one's action regardless of reward. Action in itself is significant whether we know its usefulness or not, it...
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T. S. Eliot
i think that this poem is introduced at the time of battle between india and england
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T. S. Eliot
"Macavity: The Mystery Cat" by T.S. Elliot was printed in a collection of poems written between 1909 and 1962, and prior to his death in 1965. The poem is particularly humorous. The rhyme scheme...
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T. S. Eliot
there is a very useful article about this at www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20089
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is often considered one of the most important – and also one of the most emblematic – literary figures of the twentieth century. As a leading proponent and practitioner of literary...
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T. S. Eliot
Sweeney Agonistes is a fragment of an early play. With its jazz rhythms, songs and symbols it portrays in contemptuous satire, the boredom, emptiness and pessismism of its day. It has an...
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T. S. Eliot
This line is not actually present in the poem, but I will attempt to answer it anyway. The speaker of the poem is discussing the difference between destination and destiny. If a man dies in battle...
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T. S. Eliot
The verse "Now and in England" comes at line 40 in the first section of Little Gidding, the fourth of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It is the final line of the strophe There are other placesWhich...
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T. S. Eliot
In the poem “To the Indians Who Died in Africa”, Eliot has presented a philosophical truth about life, and that is – a soldier has no home but purpose. In the poem, with a sombre mood, the...
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T. S. Eliot
T.S Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is very metaphysical in its concepts; definitions of his main points are only understood within the context of the quantum metaphysical...