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THOMAS STEARN ELIOT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - collection of poems
      - gained a recognition as an important avant-gard poet
      - 1922
        
        he founded and edit THE CRITERION
        
        intellectual magazine of eropean literature
        
        1925
        
        became a director for the publisher Faber&Faber
        
        Since 1915
        
        Unhappily married whit a Ballet Dancer
        
        1927
        
        became British citizen
        
        Join Church of England
        
        His religious poem:
        
        Murder on the Cathedral
        
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        Ash Wednesday
        
        Four Quarets
        
        The Family Reunion
        
        Influential literary critic
        
        the foundation of literary criticism are collected in The Sacre Wood and Selected Essays
        
        Underline the importance for the artist to be IMPERSONAL
        
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        Published THE HOLLOW MAN
        
        sequel to The Waste Land
        
        THE WASTE LAND
        
        written while he war recovering in Swiss
- - - - Reject any kind of narrative structure
        
        contains a variety of different and apparently disconnected themes
        
        This fragmentation make poem one of the best example of Modernist Poetry
        
        Poem full of quotes from ancient and classical sources like Dante, Shakespear, Bibble
        
        meanings and character not clear define, events can't be located in a specific time or place
      - Rapresent the relics of a world, has been destroyed by modernity
      - THE DESOLATION OF THE POST WAR WORLD
        
        expresses both the psychological effects of war, and artist difficulty in writing the tragedy of the war
        
        Describe millions life have been swept away by war and those who have survived feel guilty
        
        Humanity is almost dead, life is paralyse and, future is uncertain
        
        THE ROLE OF MYTHE
        
        costant juxtaposition between the contemporary world and classic myths
        
        frequent references the the myth of the Holy Grail
        
        similarly to what Joyce does in Ulisses
        
        use these myths to add a layer of spirituality and wisdom to the squalid reality
        
        THE OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE
        
        the very heart of the poetic method use by Eliot in the Wast Land
        
        juxtaposes a series of incoherent images and symbols whose produce the idea of "sterility" in the reader's mind
        
        define it "a set of object, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particulary emotion" That a writer seeks to evoke in the reader