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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
Content
This autobiographical piece was penned during a crisis period in the poet's life. It is consists of five distinct sections:
On the third section "The Fire Sermon" represents the present alienation through a loveless sexual encounter;
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The second is about "A Game of Chess" focuses on the contrast between the present squalor and a past splendour;
and the last section is "What the Thunder Said" depicts a possible solution in a sort of sympathy with other human beings.
The first section, titled "The Burial of the Dead" is about the opposition between fertility and sterility, life and death;
About the author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri and he studied in Paris at the Sorbonne. He married a British ballet dancer, than he established himself as an important avant-garde poet. In 1922 he published The Waste Land. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature and died in London in 1965.
Works
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After the conversion: the keywords of the works were: purification, hope, joy.
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1935 Murder in the Cathedral, a drama in verse.
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style
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Technique of implication, for an active participation by the lectors
Mixture of different poetic styles, for reproducing the chaos
Repetition of words, images and phrases
used to increase musicality.
Themes
The poet uses pictures or pieces of historical stories, which are together by three main themes: The difference between the fertility of a mythical past and the spiritual sterility present. The falling apart of civilization. The despair of living in a modern and disconnected world. The speaking voice is related to a multiple personality beyond the limits of space and time.
First section
The work is set in London, that is peoples by the ghosts of the dead's people. There's a contrast between the past and the present characterized by the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage and the clashes of War I. The episode concludes with a famous line from the preface to Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal: ‘the reader shares the poet’s sins’.