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T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land - An Analysis of 'The Fire Sermon', 2003.
A literary analysis of a short passage (20-50 lines) from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land".
2,129 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper analyzes 'The Fire Sermon' - a short passage from the poem "The Waste Land", by T. S. Eliot. This paper looks at the story of Oedipus from which the character of Tiresias is drawn, and discusses the definite links between Sophocles' imagery of a barren and plague-stricken Thebes and the wasteland depicted by Eliot. The writer discusses the idea of human behaviour as an empty mechanism in relation to this passage of "The Waste Land". The writer suggests that this particular passage can be seen as a portrait of the human condition as Eliot saw it in pre-war England.
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"T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land is described as '[...]a study of a civilisation doomed by its own sterility'. Throughout The Waste Land, Eliot can be seen to suggest this through his fragmentation of the narrative and using a series of different voices, each of them serving to juxtapose the relative richness of the past to the sterile wasteland of the present. It is not, though, until we reach the mid-point of the poem that we are introduced to the character of Tiresias as a narrator, both man and woman, that all of these voices are unified, and one can begin to metaphorically put the pieces together and find the root cause of this wasteland. It is not until this is considered that one can consider whether this civilisation is truly doomed."
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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", 2006.
Examines the opposing concepts of the meaning of 'waste' conveyed in T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land".
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 89.95
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'Waste' can mean both a dry, infertile, inhospitable place, or the failure to make productive use of one's resources. This paper examines how T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land", embodies both of each seemingly diametrically opposed concepts to describe the social, cultural and spiritual dislocation in Europe following the First World War. Although modern life and culture may be seen to suffer from exile in a land of waste, such eras may be cyclical, and his brilliant use of fragmentary allusions suggests that the best of the past may foreshadow a brighter future.
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"By setting 'Waste' off as a separate word from 'Land', Eliot suggests to the reader that the various meanings of the term are key to an understanding of his message. Rather than referring to a wasteland (in the conventional sense of "desert"), the poem instead centers on the concept of a land both of desolation and of conspicuous, indiscriminate consumption, a land whose resources are not utilized but rather discarded on a purulent cultural garbage dump. The rich allusions within the poem both contrast and relate these seemingly opposed concepts. The first segment, 'Burial of the Dead', introduces the theme of the turning of the seasons, and more importantly, the theme of cyclical regeneration. In nature, waste is irrelevant. Although death occurs in all forms of life, the bodies of the dead furnish the hope of renewal to other living creatures. "
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T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, 2004.
This paper discusses, extensively, the theme of water in the T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?.
3,785 words (approx. 15.1 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 104.95
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This paper explains that the lack of water, which is referred to continuously throughout T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, is a sign of spiritual drought and symbolically indicative of infertility and philosophical and existential stasis. The author points out that water is the primary symbol of the release and awakening from the nightmare of "The Waste Land", and its interpretation offers an alternative to the loss of meaning, which in Eliot?s view, characterizes the modern world. The paper relates that water links to the ancient myth of the vegetation god and to the Christian myths because water can be seen to regenerate through suffering and death.
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"The sense of ennui and existential angst is related to Eliot?s personal situation as well, and to the situation of his entire generation after the ?Great War?. Any understanding of the poem necessitates a perception that the symbol of water as an image of salvation from the ?modern predicament? and its various constraints, was not a random image selected for its obvious connotations, but refers to an entire tradition of mythical and philosophical thought. Drawing from these ancient roots, the modern usage of the symbol of water is reflected in the intense search for relevance and meaning that was central to the work and the art of the modernist period."
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T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land", 2001.
This paper analyzes T.S. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land".
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, $ 43.95
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This paper shows how fixated Eliot was on the topic of death and the period of passing between life and death as seen in his poem "The Waste Land".
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"Much of the power of T.S. Eliot?s 1922 poem The Waste Land, lies in the poet?s focus on the middle ground between life and death. As a man who had experienced no small success in life, he could look at the period of living as a time of at least some pleasures. And as a Christian, he could assume that after death he had a good chance at entering paradise. But even the Christian must fear the process of death, that time between when the pleasures and certainties of life have been relinquished and that time when one?s soul actually is welcomed into heaven."
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T. S. Eliot?s ?Hollow Men?, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of the meaning of life and death in T. S. Eliot?s ?Hollow Men?.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 24.95
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This paper discusses the poem by T. S. Eliot, ?The Hollow Men? that contemplates the idea of how life would end and what the fate of man is when he dies. The author believes that, all throughout the poem, Eliot uses lines that depict hopelessness and emptiness in one?s life. The paper concludes by comparing the theme of life and death in T. S. Eliot?s ?The Hollow Men? with ?Faust? by Goethe, the legend of ?Beowulf? and ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare.
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Meanwhile, the legend of ?Beowulf and the play ?Hamlet? are contrast views of Eliot and Goethe?s perception of the meaning of life and the death of man in the world. In "Beowulf", it is imperative that the character die nobly and courageously, which is a generalized perception of how life should be led by mortals. Although Beowulf has extraordinary powers, he is still a mortal subject to death afterwards. Death is an honor for the legend of Beowulf, and a meaningful life is needed in order also to lead a meaningful existence in the afterlife. Hamlet, meanwhile, discusses death and its meaning in the initial and latter part of the play. The first discussion of death is through the ghost of King Hamlet, whose soul cannot enter heaven because he was not able to confess when he suddenly died because he was murdered by his brother Claudius.
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T.S. Eliot?s ?La Figlia Che Piange?, 2005.
This paper analyzes T.S. Eliot's short poem "La Figlia Che Piange", which examines the re-writing and re-creating of an experience, drawing attention to the role of the poet and of poetry itself in re-defining reality.
1,580 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 51.95
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This paper reviews, in detail, each stanza of T.S. Eliot's short poem "La Figlia Che Piange" noting the specific word choice, which furthers the poem's displacement and wistfulness, and shifts in verbs from a wistful imperative to the subjunctive tense. The author points out that the ultimate effect of such writing is perhaps not the seamless reversal of control the speaker had envisioned because the speaker reveals that, regardless of his rewriting of the situation, he is left with little more than words to placate himself. The paper concludes that the ultimate purpose of "La Figlia Che Piange" is to fabricate a scene richer than reality in which the woman does react with emotion to the departure, in which the poet is in control and in which the contrived details satisfy a void in the speaker's experience.
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"In beginning the poem with such careful instructions, Eliot conveys an element of focused personal concern, adding a weight to each action. If the poem simply began "She stood on the highest pavement of the stair, leaning on a garden urn," we would not feel the same sense of the poet's desperate attention in arranging the scene exactly as it appears in his mind's eye. To further this effect, Eliot repeats the phrase "weave, weave the sunlight in your hair," reinforcing the personal importance of this detail: the sunlight in the woman's hair is such a powerful image it seems a product of her own doing (thus the active verb "weave"), rather than an incidental effect of the sun."
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The Poetics of Plato and T. S. Eliot, 2008.
A comparative analysis of the poetic views of Plato and T. S. Eliot.
2,566 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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Through an examination of Plato's "Republic" and ""Ion" and T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" this paper attempts to compare Plato's and Eliot's views on poetry. The paper discusses how Plato saw poetry as a claim to truth that he rejected as a subjective interpretation of the world at best, falling further away from any knowledge claims with every successive interpretation. The paper then compares Plato's view with T.S. Eliot's view, which places poetry within a tradition that is informed by the past as well as the cultural present, a collectivity that mitigates the poet's subjective experiences and functions as an objective correlation between art and the world.
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"In the Ionic dialog, Plato examines the interpretation of poetry by the rhapsodes, and attempts to establish the grounds by which this interpretation is enacted. Through the character of Socrates, Plato interrogates Ion, a professional rhapsode; one who recites poetry for an audience and also interprets passages for them. Ion's ethos is established through his achievements, recently winning first prize at the festival of Asclepius at Epidaurus as well as being "crowned with a golden crown by the Homeridae" for how well he "embellished Homer". Ion proceeds to admit that, while he is an expert on Homer, he knows very little about other poets. As the poets often deal with much the same subject matter, Socrates exposes a problem with Ion's interpretation of these texts; he is not an expert qualified to critically assess the content of the works, only Homer's usage."
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"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot, 2008.
An analysis of death and the destruction of passion in T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland."
2,131 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper analyzes T. S. Eliot's the epic poem, "The Wasteland." It describes the scenes of loneliness and oppression, sexual gratification and the inability to feel emotions that can be found in the poem. The paper shows how T.S. Eliot wanted us to not only take a closer look at human nature and the relevance of the negativity that come along within life, but also for society to take a closer look at itself and examine our own lives and our own mortality.
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""Death by Water" is the fourth section of this poem. It once again gives us a scene of humankind facing its own mortality. "Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, / Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell/and profit and loss. /A current under sea/Picked his bones in whispers" (Eliot, ll. 312-316). Here we encounter Phlebas the Phoenician as he has just died. He floats through the underworld of the sea and is losing everything that once mattered to him, including his body. Even though this is the shortest section of this poem, what we have to notice is that it takes a turn from the other three that started it. This section introduces up to a man who is in reality dead. Before, Eliot alluded to the fact that the people within the previous three sections were dead on the inside and alive in reality. "Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you" (Eliot, l. 321). Yet, with this sudden change of reality, the reader takes notice to the fact that Eliot seems to be asking the reader to not only consider their own mortality, but also consider the lives that they are entangled in and at the same time numb too."
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T.S Eliot and Emily Dickinson, 2005.
A review of T.S Eliot's evaluation of the private life of Emily Dickinson.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper analyzes how the author T.S. Eliot evaluated the highly private life of the poet Emily Dickinson. It looks at how T. S. Eliot evaluated Dickinson as a private individual that refused to be tainted by society and literary norms within 19th century poetry.
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"This study will analyze how the author T.S. Eliot evaluated the highly private life of the poet Emily Dickinson. In her poetic career, Dickinson was a private individual who refused social contact with her neighbors. By isolating herself from the community, her inward 'eye' of the soul could focus to a greater degree on her poetry. In this manner, T. S. Eliot evaluated Dickinson as a private individual that refused to be tainted by society and literary norms within 19th century poetry. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and resided in Amherst, Massachusetts for all of her life. She was considered talented in her studies at Amherst Academy and Holyoke Female Seminary, forging an education that gave her the writing skills that would eventually become poetic masterpieces in American literature. "
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T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", 2006.
This literary study examines the theme of alienation in T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper analyzes the poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", by T.S. Eliot in relation to the theme of alienation and self-preservation. By actively analyzing the poetic details of this abstract relationship to the world that Prufrock possesses, one can realize his inherent sense of fear and timidity toward women. This sense of romantic fear manifests itself in poor negative images, which the narrator constantly brings forth.
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"By understanding how Prufrock lives within a harsh and cruel urban environment, it becomes clear that this is not the only reason why the narrator feels alienated from other people. By realizing the issue of self-preservation as a means to protect oneself from the hardships of life or in risk taking, Prufrock is utterly hopeless in that he cannot make himself vulnerable to human relationships. In essence, the theme of alienation has many parallel depths in regards to self-preservation that will be analyzed within the poetic study."
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T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets", 2002.
An examination of how T. S. Eliot's series of poems, "Four Quartets" illustrate human beings in a cosmic way.
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This paper discusses universal consciousness versus individual consciousness in T. S. Eliot's poems "Four Quartets." He quotes whole stanzas from all of these poems. He discusses the limits imposed by language of human endeavors in "The Dry Salvages" discussing how the poet's life is always a part of a larger human consciousness, vis-a-vis God and suffering.
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"If there is ambiguity to Eliot?s poetic project of attempting to encapsulate the limits of human endeavors into the limited medium of human language, this is intensified even further in ?The Dry Salvages.? The third section of the poem is paradoxically devoted to water and spiritual dryness. The river is called ?useful,? and yet also ?untrustworthy.? Water is fluid, yet reflects the relentless spiritual monotony of human life"
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Despair in the Works of T.S. Eliot, 2006.
A discussion regarding the theme of despair apparent in the work of T.S. Eliot.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses how T. S. Eliot's works speak both frequently and eloquently of both personal and global despair. It is not until later in his writing career, however, when he has matured as a person and as a writer before hope becomes an aspect of that element of despair. The paper further discusses how this sense of hope comes with the return to some degree of personal comfort on Eliot's part.
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"T.S. Eliot's works offer a compelling vision of the nature of despair. This despair is evident on a personal level, as in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and on a global level, as in "The Wasteland." Yet his Quartets, particularly "East Coker" and "Little Gidding" speak of hope that can arise from the question of "what might have been" and the overwhelming presence of despair. It is interesting to note that as the decades progress, Eliot's works move from an internal examination of despair, to the confusion and horror that accompanied a post-World War I world, and, finally, to the hope that began to develop in the despair that was World War II. Is this change simply the work of a maturing author? Or has Eliot's point of view been shaped by a changing worldview?"
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T.S. Eliot, 2005.
This paper analyzes an article by T.S. Eliot on poetry and language.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper explores an article by T.S. Eliot on poetry and language. The paper discusses Eliot's thesis that a great poet is one who makes the most of the language that is given him and explores his contention that English is the richest language for writing poetry.
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"T. S. Eliot stated that art as Goethe said is in limitation and a great poet is one who makes the most of the language that is given him. What Eliot further argues is that the truly great poet makes his language a great language."
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T. S. Eliot's "Preludes", 2004.
An analysis of the imagery, language and verse form T. S. Eliot uses in "Preludes" with occasional comparisons to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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This essay analyses the way T. S. Eliot expresses his view on modern urban life and his feelings of social classes and society using what seems to be simple imagery with a more complex underlying meaning to them. It examines how the series of poems in "Preludes" (I, II, III, IV) offer a more detailed exploration of the poem, showing how modern city life and its dwellers are void of spirituality and meaning.
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"The adjective of ?smoky? suggests a lack of vision and emphasises the feeling of loss of vitality together with the presence of urban squalor. Eliot joins images of decadence and disintegration with images that we usually associate with the modern urban surroundings, such as ?steaks? and ?cigarettes.? He places these ordinary images onto a context that suggests a criticism of the modern world and lifestyle, which he emphasises with images of dirt and decay, such as ?The grimy scraps.? The image of ?withered leaves? again point to the winter motif, creating a clear picture of death and decline. Eliot is not only referring to leaves here, but uses this image, through association, to connect to the general idea of loss of meaning in the modern urban world, exposing a world that is falling apart."
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T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", 2005.
A character sketch of J. Alfred Prufrock, the main character in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
1,082 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper provides an analysis of the character of J. Alfred Prufrock in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The paper depicts Prufrock's fears, insecurities and views in the society he lives in and uses quotes and lines from the poem to support the analysis.
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"J. Alfred Prufrock, the main character in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", by T.S. Eliot, appears to be an unhappy man aware of his weaknesses and riddled with self doubts. Prufrock is portrayed as someone who is in despair and helpless. He feels as if he has never accomplished anything in his life and is painfully aware of his failures: "For I have known them all already, known them all:/ Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/ I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;/ I know the voices dying with a dying fall/ Beneath the music from a farther room/ So how should I presume?" (Eliot, 1917, Lines 55-60). This awareness of his failures is what puts Prufrock in despair: "But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,/ Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter,/ I am no prophet-and here's no great matter." (Eliot, 1917, Lines 87-89). He mocks himself for being too weak and too helpless to turn his life around. This very helplessness fills him with panic and despair: "When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,/ Then how should I begin/ To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?/ And how should I presume?" (Eliot, 1917, Lines 64-67). Prufrock, to put it bluntly, is clueless on how to start over and to pick up the pieces. He perceives himself as doomed to his fate: "Till human voices wake us, and we drown." (Eliot, 1917, Line 138), "I do not think they will sing to me." (Eliot, 1917, Line 131)."
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