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Thomas Stearns Eliot, Eliot's style, Topics of Eliot's poetry -…
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Operas
Prufrock and Other Observations
Collection of poems
The Criterion
Influential literary magazine
He's the founder
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
Where did he work?
As a clerk in Lloyds Bank
Director for the publishers Faber & Faber
The beginning
He published essays on philosophy
The relationship with Vivienne
She suffered physical and mental health
T.S. Eliot spent some time in a Swiss sanatorium for a psychological treatment
The role of poetry in his life
Poetry was his refuge where he expressed his unhappy and the crisis of Western Culture
Eliot's style
Innovative style
Mixture of different poetic styles
Blank verse, ode, quatrain and free verse
This is the representation of modernity (chaos)
Cubist images
He try to active the participation of readers
Rich in metaphors and symbols
Use of objective correlative
Topics of Eliot's poetry
First period
Pessimistic vision of the world
No hope, faith or ideals
Second period
Purification, hope and joy
Main themes
Contrast between fertility of the past and the spiritual sterility
There isn't cultural order
Devastation of the present caused by war