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T.S. Eliot - Keywords
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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
Concentration
difficult reading, a challenging strategy, which helps the reader to play an active role
Eliot wrote: "Poetry in our civilization must be difficiult."
Victiorian Unity has been lost in the modern world
Ellipsis and Juxtaposition
logical links missing in on or more sentences
opposition of images
ELIOT'S PURPOSE
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
is a technique
Eliot uses also "association of ideas" as technique
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
reader must focus on the symbolic power of the images and gradually the message will become clear
free verse
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
alienation
= feeling of estrangement from society
common to modern man
incommunicability
= 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
The Damaged Psyche of Humanity
STERILITY
feelings and emotions no longer possible
natural
= land is dry and unfruitful
social
spiritual
lack in any beliefs or values
nihilism
social criticism
MYTH
only device to provide unity
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