T. S. Eliot

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This is a broad overview of T. S. Eliot's poetry over the course of his life. It argues that a metaphysical premise can be used to understand the progression of his writing from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to "the quartets," with "The Waste Land" strategically placed in between. In short, he progresses from the notion that we are fundamentally isolated to the idea that some truth of forms exists.

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"The great writers of the early twentieth century can all be analyzed through the lens of modernity; in other words, it is safe to say that all of the modernist writers handled the issues and troubles associated with the new knowledge, new technology, new psychology, and new worldviews that exploded onto the world stage in the first few decades of the century. Of course, their reaction to these drastic social changes varied considerably. Some reveled in the new changes and stored in them their hopes for a better world, while others spastically revolted from the degradation and replacement of the old social order. "

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