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T.S. Eliot - Keywords
- Images
- separated images, fragments of modern life (give realistic view of life)
- "sense of sudden liberation...from time limits and space limits" (Ezra Pound)
- compress allusions and evoke several levels of experience simultaneously
- separated images, fragments of modern life (give realistic view of life)
- Concentration
- difficult reading, a challenging strategy, which
helps the reader to play an active role
- Eliot wrote: "Poetry in our civilization must be difficiult."
- Eliot wrote: "Poetry in our civilization must be difficiult."
- difficult reading, a challenging strategy, which
helps the reader to play an active role
- Victiorian Unity has been lost in the modern world
- Ellipsis and Juxtaposition
- logical links missing in on or more sentences
- opposition of images
- logical links missing in on or more sentences
- ELIOT'S PURPOSE
- to provide the reader with
a multi-faceted vision of
reality, united by the
mythical frame
- to provide the reader with
a multi-faceted vision of
reality, united by the
mythical frame
- OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE
- "A set of object, a situation, a chain of events" suggesting a particular
emotion in order to evoke a disired emotional response in the reader
- as the poet cannot communicate his emotions directly to the reader has to find some
object suggestive of it in order to evoke the same emotion he felt
- as the poet cannot communicate his emotions directly to the reader has to find some
object suggestive of it in order to evoke the same emotion he felt
- is a technique
- Eliot uses also "association of ideas" as technique
- Eliot uses also "association of ideas" as technique
- "A set of object, a situation, a chain of events" suggesting a particular
emotion in order to evoke a disired emotional response in the reader
- STYLE AND LANGUAGE
- innovative
- rejection of the traditional poetical images and structures
- introduction of symbolical images often out of any context
- quotations in 6 languages and allusions
(sometimes obscure) to philosophical
and religious traditions
- open to various interpretations
- quotations in 6 languages and allusions
(sometimes obscure) to philosophical
and religious traditions
- reader must focus on the symbolic power of the images and gradually the message will become clear
- free verse
- innovative
- THEMES
- meaningful link with the past which
makes look the present more squallid
- emptiness of modern life
- existential void which cannot be filled
- people may try to fight against it by looking for temporary fillers like love, religion...but every turns out to be vain
- existential void which cannot be filled
- alienation
- = feeling of estrangement from society
- common to modern man
- = feeling of estrangement from society
- incommunicability
- = we live in crowded cities but don't know one anothers
- = we live in crowded cities but don't know one anothers
- quest
- = represents the destiny of modern man always looking/waiting for someone
- symbolic spiritual piligrimage to restore hope
- = represents the destiny of modern man always looking/waiting for someone
- The Damaged Psyche of Humanity
- STERILITY
- feelings and emotions no longer possible
- natural
- = land is dry and unfruitful
- = land is dry and unfruitful
- social
- spiritual
- lack in any beliefs or values
- lack in any beliefs or values
- feelings and emotions no longer possible
- nihilism
- meaningful link with the past which
makes look the present more squallid
- social criticism
- MYTH
- only device to provide unity
- only device to provide unity
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