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Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888-1965 - Coggle Diagram
Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888-1965
life
born in missouri
studied European literature
1922:
director for the publishers Faber & Faber
founded the "Criterion"
1915 married a woman with mental issues
poetry became his refuge
painful experience
1930-1940
writings about ethical and phylosofical problems of modern society
1948 won the nobel prize
works
1 period (pessimistic vision)
1917 "Prufrock and Other observation"
1922 "The Waste Land"
1925 "The Hollow Men"
after conversion (hope and joy)
1930 poems "Ash wednesday" and "Four Quartets" and
1943 plays "Murder in the cathedral"
1943 the family reunion"
The Waste Land
themes
the sterility of the present Vs fertility of a mythical past
fragmentation
style: represent caos
shift in time
juxtaposition (squalid elements with poetic ones)
free verse/blank verse
repetition
vivid images
5 sections: protagonist Tiresias.
What the thunder said
Death by water
The Fire sermon
A Game of chess
the Burial of the dead