between text and context in at least two poems you studied by Eliot. Eliot’s modernist poems‚ Preludes and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ depict the effects of industrialisation on societal consciousness‚ through lenses coloured by war and suffering. Through the eyes of two alienated individuals‚ Eliot suggests that life is bereft of meaning‚ and that to live is not to engage with God and morality‚ but with nothing at all. “Preludes” is written as a reflection on a post war society where
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Eliot’s attitude was reflected in his work. A quote from T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work states‚ " Eliot was a man with the highest standards in his poetry‚ his critisism‚ and his behavior to others." ( Spender 34). Perhaps much of this can be attributed to his birth toward the end of the Victorian Era. Eliot’s background also had a major effect on his writing style. He was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ on September 26‚ 1888. Though Eliot was born in America‚ he spent much of his life in England. Although
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T.S. Eliot Response In T.S. Eliot’s essay‚ “Tradition and the Individual Talent‚” he consistently mitigates the importance of an artist (poet or author) and the artist’s originality. Eliot believes that that the artist should simply be viewed as a medium to the development of a work rather than the work being a representation of the artist. He defines his impersonal theory as a “continual surrender” by the author that values tradition‚ rather than personal emotions‚ to create greatness. This
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How does TS Eliot express his modernist concerns in his poems? TS Elliot represents the views of many artists of the modernist movement who encapsulate the psychological and emotional distress of WW1 and the early events of the 20th Century in his poems. Modernists believe that every individual in an industrialised city is part of a superficial society that reduces the depth and value of human relationships. The alienation and loneliness as a consequence of this superficial society are strong themes
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became desensitized to human emotion and existed in a state of limbo. Broken into only five stanzas‚ Eliot manages to capture the spirit of an age in “The Hollow Men.” Immediately in the epigraph‚ Eliot makes a direct reference (from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) to “Mistah Kurtz‚” a man who realizes the emptiness and futility of his life on his deathbed. By using contrasting diction and imagery‚ Eliot carries this sentiment of emptiness throughout the first stanza. The first stanza begins with “we
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T.S. Eliot’s poem "Journey of the Magi" interprets the wisemens’ trip to go see baby Jesus from a different perspective than most of us are used to hearing. The biblical version that is most popular doesn’t seem to mention anything bad or difficult about the journey that they made. The wisemen had a lot going against them to make their traveling terrible. It was in the winter‚ they rode on smelly camels‚ and the upset camel men were no comfort to the wandering Magi’s. In the first part of the poem
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Fardad Hajirostami Guilty Conscience In his poem‚ “The Prelude”‚ William Wordsworth relives a childhood epiphany that alters his perception of nature. Wordsworth describes this experience of his through his voyage in a boat which later dramatically turns into a nightmarish journey. Through use of suspenseful diction‚ dramatic personification‚ and descriptive syntax‚ Wordsworth vividly illustrates his perception of nature and how he views it with certain trepidation after he encounters a “towering”
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of the opening texture; however there is a short monophonic passage in the coda. This particular piece is nicknamed ‘raindrop’ because of the repeated quavers that are heard throughout. It comes from a collection of preludes known as Op. 28‚ composed in 1839. There are 24 preludes in the collection‚ one in each of the major and minor keys. It was composed during the Romantic period (1825-1900)‚ when composers began to convey emotions‚ tell stories and paint pictures through the music‚ in contrast
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public customs‚ and cultural orders (Barbour 28)‚ fitting the tendency toward modern life then. One of the most outstanding American writers and poets‚ Thomas Stearns Eliot introduces his works with innovatory impact by utilizing seemingly illogical and abstract elements and techniques. In his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot successfully brings in his formula of emotion expressing into multiple characteristics of modernism including dynamic style‚ subjective experience‚ and moral relativism
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Eliot Ness was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ April 19‚ 1903. Ness stands as the man most often recognized for destroying the multimillion-dollar breweries operated by Al Capone. Also responsible‚ in part‚ for Capone’s arrest and conviction of tax evasion‚ Ness was instrumental in seizing the power Capone had over the city of Chicago. Ness was also responsible for turning around Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ in the mid-1930s‚ when the city was overcome with crime and corruption. When he was 18 years old he went
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