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    'Eliot was a great magician of words as well as the exceptionally key manager of the language. ' – Igor Stravinsky depicts T.S Eliot 's written work expertise as he draws on not just his ability to transform and reshape the meaning of words, yet to implement them and his new challenged way of deduction into innovators society. The notion of romanticism from the past is transformed into new innovator philosophies as the utilization of language and style emphasis Eliot 's crisp expression of language that mirrors the changing of literacy traditions, clearly demonstrating the changing viewpoints as time advanced. The fragmented language mirrors the changing English society and its discontinuity of certain values and morals as the persona presents…

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    hearts, lead army’s or to simply express ones feelings toward a subject and or person of choice. T.S Eliot took poetry to an entire new level from his many works and short stories T.S Eliot has be named one of the greatest of our time. Thomas Stearns Eliot (hence the T.S) born on September 26th, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. For most of his child hood to adolescent years he lived in St. Louis. As a young lad Mr. Eliot fished for crabs and became a very well rounded sailor. He contracted a…

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    Throughout his life T.S. Eliot struggled with religion and belief. He was raised in a Unitarian home where he was surrounded by religious ideology. Once Eliot left his home he began his own research of all the possible religions, and based his beliefs on his research. A large portion of his writings included religious illusions. The central subject of The Waste Land is really a religious one. The Waste Land illustrates for us the concrete image of a spiritual plan with the help of analogy.…

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot, famously know as T.S. Eliot, was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis Missouri, the youngest of six children. His father, Henry Ware Eliot, was a successful business man and his mother, Charlotte Eliot, was a teacher, but after her marriage she began to write poems and submit them to newspaper. T.S. Eliot was educationally advanced due to his mother being a teacher and as a teenager he produced eight issues of his own magazine called “The Fireside”. The magazine…

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    T.S Eliot and Langston Hughes were working poets in the early 1900’s. They project their personal thoughts and fears into their work and construct poems that defy definition. Their technique is alike and both are key figures in the history of poetry, yet they focus on very contrasting themes and motifs. When attempting to understand the meaning of a poets work many aspects of the poets lives is analysed to gain a greater understanding. How significant is a poets race when understanding their…

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    The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem that explains how people have become disconnected. Whether it be that mankind has become disconnected with nature, with a spiritual force, or with time, we have drifted away from having connections with others and the world that we live in, instead people are focusing more on themselves. Even though The Waste Land was written in 1922 it still holds some truth about how we are disconnected with time in today’s society. Time is an essential part in everyone’s…

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    The issue with appearances is that people constantly overlook and judge themselves, which creates a barrier of the reality and the mind. According to Güven, “Eliot implies that nobody shows his real face in this fragmented modern world, and that is the reason why Prufrock needs time to prepare a false face for himself” (Güven 82). Prufrock cannot help but place a barrier between the people and himself due to the pretentious nature of modern people. For example, Prufrock interrupts the poem by…

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    for love has affect a man life. T.S. Eliot made up a character whose name is Prufrock, and he is a man with an unattractive look that has hard time in a search for love. Eliot wrote the poem in a way the reader can interpret Prufrock characteristics. In the poem Eliot use different depictions and analogies of how to describe Prufrock. Eliot give a few ways of how Prufrock feel about his physical appearance. Throughout the entire poem it shows the several characteristics of Prufrock, and each…

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    Journal #10 In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot show some great and true statements about how love can or lust can have a person feeling cowardly. According to Google dictionary Cowardly mean “in a way that shows a lack of courage.” The main theme I got from this poem is how he is trying overcome his fear to gets the woman attention. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” the speaker also shows how it may take time for a man to go and approach a woman whereas…

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    Imagine a world where the people have no hope for the future. “The Hollow Men” was written by poet T.S. Eliot during the 1920s in London when World War I was taking place. “The Hollow Men” describes the world of godless despair without the promise of salvation. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated at Harvard University then later attended school at Sorbonne in Paris, France. He later went on the marry an Englishwoman named Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot…

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