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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT - Coggle Diagram
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT
KEY WORDS
Chaotic,futile, pessimistic, unstable, loss of faith, collapse of moral values, confused sense of identity
LIFE AND CAREER
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888 and he was educated at Harvard
In 1910 he studied in Paris where he started to read the works of French Symbolists. Then he came back t Harvard where he won a scholarship to Oxford
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His profession included being a poet, a critic and an editor so in 1917 he founded and edited The Criterion, a magazine. in 1925 instead he became a director for the publishers Faber & Faber
Then Eliot spent some time under psychological treatment, so poetry became hiss refuge where he expressed all his horror and his unhappy home life and he went beyond his personal situation in order to represent the general crisis of Western culture.
In this peiod he suffered from depression and he wrote his masterpice The Waste Land, a lng poem which was published in 1922
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WORKS
Eliot's work can be divided into two different periods: before and after the converion to Anglicanism
BEFORE the conversion we have a pessimistic view of the world. The works of the first period are all characterised by a pessimistic vision of the world, without any hope, faith, ideals or values. The Waste Land belongs to this period
AFTER the key words are purification, hope and joy.
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