1. t.s. eliot's j. alfred prufroc
Eliot is, to many, just another name heard, but never truly known about. For a select few, he is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and "the" modernist poet and critic of all time. T. S. Eliot had a few select influences in his life that helped him and pushed him to write both his poems and his plays.
Thomas Sterns Eliot had a few major influences in his life. T. S. Eliot was born in Missouri. Living in St. Louis for eighteen years of his life. He also attended Harvard while he was here. He moved to Sorbornne, having already earned both undergraduate and masters degrees. He left Paris after a year and returned to Harvard to get a doctorate in philosophy, but then left again in 1914 back to Europe where he settled in England. In 1915 he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. He also met Ezra Pound, one of the few major influences in his life. When Pound saw some of his writings she immediately knew that he had talent. She helped in his publishing on his very first book of poems, which include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". His new wife cheated on him for a short period, and she got continually worse physically and emotionally. Eliot continued to struggle to support himself and his wife's deteriorating condition. In 1919, Eliot's father died, leaving Eliot without the chance to make right past conflicts about his marriage to Vivienne. In 1921 Eliot had a nervous breakdown and took physicians advice to take three months off for rest. During this three months, Eliot completed a poem he had been working on since 1919. Scofield Thayer, a friend from his Harvard days, had by this time become the editor of Dial, a magazine of the time. Thayer awarded Eliot with the annual prize that the magazine gave of two thousand dollars and to have an essay written by one of the more influential writers of the magazine, Edmund Wilson. In 1923, Vivienne nearly died, which drove Eliot almost to a second breakdown.
The state of alienation, defined by T.S. Eliot, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman as separation, isolation, and disillusionment, characterizes industrial civilization today because people are unable to find community or meaning without alienation. In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" a...
Analysis of poems by Wallace Stevens and T.S. ... The second poem that I chose to focus on was "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot. ... Eliot uses paradox in the first stanza as a form of style. ... After reading the poem I found Eliot to be God fearing. ...
Poetry is essentially derived from the manifesto of ideas, emotion and theories we hold as important. Moreover, symbolism, the representation of an idea through an object or person, can be used to condense the ideologies and perspectives of a specific society or individual into a poem. T.S. Eliot i...
T.S Eliot is an artist of such genre and his poetry is considered to be among the most powerful and influential works of all time. ... Throughout both poems, Eliot continuously portrays human life as debased. ... Eliot employs the structure of the two poems to portray human lives as fragmented. ... Eliot skilfully juxtaposes these personas to help portray the broken state of society. ... T.S Eliot is a revolutionary poet of his time. ...
The events of September 11 have forever changed America and on a smaller scale, the way in which I view T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland." ... If it snowed in New York today, we may feel an unconscious relief of our worries, just as Eliot suggested. ... Eliot conveys a similar message, relating his childhood fun and lightheartedness to the mountains. ... A poem written at the present time, echoing the views of Eliot would most likely be cynical and unpromising. ...
T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion" is a very haunting poem that takes the reader through the mind of an "old man" (1). ... Or that the poem itself is a dream that Eliot had; which would describe the cold descriptions and vacant windy references. At the end of stanza one, Eliot introduces the motif of wind and whispering. ... Or better yet, "Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season" (76) as Eliot so eloquently put. ...
T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... T.S. Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. ... Eliot - Pioneer of Modernism For many readers, T.S. ...