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TS Eliot work and how it related or affected or to his life.
Eliot earned international acclaim in 1922 with the publication of The Waste Land, which he produced with much editorial assistance from Ezra Pound. The Waste Land, a poem in five parts, was ground breaking in establishing the form of the so-called kaleidoscopic, or fragmented, modern poem. These fragmented poems are characterized by jarring jumps in perspective, imagery, setting, or subject. Despite this fragmentation of form, The Waste Land is unified by its theme of despair. Its opening lines introduce the ideas of life’s ultimate futility despite momentary flashes of hope: “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / dull roots with spring rain.” The poem goes on to present a sequence of short sketches following an individual’s baffled search for spiritual peace. It concludes with resignation at the never-ending nature of the search. The poem is full of literary and mythological references that draw on many cultures and universalize the poem’s themes.
The Waste Land draws much of its symbolism and narrative framework from the mythological story of the quest for the Holy Grail, the sacred cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper. According to legend, only the pure of heart can attain the Grail. In the version of the Grail myth that Eliot draws on, a wasteland is awaiting a miraculous revival—for itself and its failing ruler, the Fisher King, guardian of the Holy Grail.
The Waste Land appeared in the aftermath of World War I (1914-1918), which was the most destructive war in human history to that point. Many people saw the poem as an indictment of postwar European culture and as an expression of disillusionment with contemporary society, which Eliot believed was culturally barren. His work The Hollow Men (1925), based partly on unedited portions of The Waste Land manuscript, takes a similar view.
Following Eliot’s conversion to the Church of England in 1927, qualities of serenity and religious humility became important in his poetry. Ash Wednesday (1930) shows his sense of how emotionally destructive life can be, but also suggests that everyday suffering may have a purifying effect.
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2007-11-12 01:03:38
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answered by ari-pup 7
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I doubt anyone has ever understood Eliot's line approximately 'the loud lament of the disconsolate chimera' - yet maximum readers will properly known that the line is a few variety of a communique. Eliot could have been somewhat a effectual semiotician, had he no longer chosen to be a poet and a banker instead. He could have been attentive to the subject concerns with even saying what 'be attentive to-how' is. Lewis Carroll had visited an identical consumer-friendly territory: the hero of The searching of the Snark has no call: He could answer to "hi!" or to any loud cry, alongside with "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" To "What-you-could-call-um!" or "What-become-his-call!" yet surprisingly "element-um-a-jig!" 'Fritter my wig' is obviously a communique - yet can anyone declare to 'understand' it? i think of Eliot may be having a humorous tale with us right here. The assertion itself has communicative value, yet no actual meaning.
2016-11-11 03:31:47
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answered by scasso 4
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