Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
THOMAS ELIOT - Coggle Diagram
THOMAS ELIOT
LIFE
-
-
His favorite writer Is Dante, he think he Is the best of all
-
-
-
-
1927 he joined the church of England, finding the answer to his incertain and change his stile of writing
His wife starts to be more insane and Eliot was under consideable emotional ptain => the poetry become the refuge of Eliot
He separate from his wife, She diede few time later. This create a sense of guilt and he become really hunhappy
-
-
WORKS
-
THE WASTE LAND
THEME
- Contrast between the fertility of the past and the spiritual sterility of the present
- The breakdown of the society and culture after the first world war
- The mitical past in contrast to the modern concept of history that’is just a cyclical repetition
-
-
STILE
- Mixture of multiple poetic stile (as free verse) that simbolised the caos of the modern society
- mhytical metod, used for madestronger the opposition of the sad present
- he believed in a particular participation of the readers, so he used the technique of the objective correlative, so use description of action and imaginas for to involve the reader and generate the emotions
- he use the repetition of words and imagines for to make more musical the poems
- juxtaposition : put in contrast imagines really different as trivial elements with spiritual elements
STRUCTURE
The poem is divided in 5 section that have no particular meaning when they are alone but takes meaning when are read together
The narrators are aaTIRESIAS, the profet, THE FISHER KING and A KING OF THE GRAIL LEGEND
-