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This paper discusses the moods and themes in two poems by T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Journey of the Magi." It also considers how Eliot's literary techniques are used in the poems.

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"The purpose of this essay is to examine the ways that poet T S Eliot conveys moods and themes in two poems. The poems selected for analysis are The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and The Journey of the Magi. Both the poems ..."

Tags:T.S. Eliot, poetry

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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."

Tags:T.S. Eliot, poetry, language

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A critical essay refuting T.S. Eliot's historically-based assessment in "Hamlet and His Problems," that Shakespeare's Hamlet is an artistic failure that possesses improbable characters and an inexplicable plot.

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"In his critical essay "Hamlet and His Problems", T. S. Eliot asserts, via a historical notion of literary theory, that Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is an utter artistic failure due to Shakespeare's inability to properly fashion into a credible drama the remake of Thomas Kyd's simpler and more effective revenge play of the same name. Eliot declares that the original Kyd "Hamlet" is a less convoluted, more focused work, in which revenge is the sole motive driving the..."

Tags:Shakespeare, Hamlet, critical, historical, T.S. Eliot

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This paper offers examples from 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. It discusses how the brilliant poetic mind of T. S. Eliot mixes inner and outer experiences to create memorable lines that reverberate in the minds of his listeners. The seeming obscurity of Eliot's imagery is discussed as well as his "magic lantern" processing of images. The critical opinions of Cleanth Brooks help to demonstrate Eliot's creative process.

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"The poetry of T.S. Eliot is an emphatic example of how "the poet's mind is. . .a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together" (Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" 8). These words from one of the many essays he wrote on the subject of poetic creation, show how well Eliot knew his own poetic process. Eliot is an extremely self conscious poet, delving into his process more thoroughly than other poets who are less intellectual or introspective. This paper offers examples from "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" of how the cauldron of Eliot's poetic mind mixes inner and outer experiences to create indelible lines that reverberate in the minds of his listeners."

Tags:Alfred, Eliot, love, poetic, process, prufrock, song, wasteland, T.S., Cleanth, Brooks

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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. "

Tags:dickinson, eliot, poetry

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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?"

Tags:eliot, despair, poetry

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The paper examines T.S. Eliot's haunting poem, "The Wasteland" and its grim references to death, its heavy disillusionment, its general sense of hopelessness and futility, and its unlovely imagery. The paper argues that even though the poem is an unhappy one and quite esoteric, it is actually a brilliant work in the sense that its elegant choice of words allows even an audience that is unfamiliar with Eliot's abstruse references and allusions to grasp the general sense of despair and quiet desperation that characterized the mindset of young intellectuals during the 1920s.

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"One of the more haunting poems ever penned by an American writer is T.S. Eliot's, "The Wasteland." With its grim references to death, its heavy disillusionment, its general sense of hopelessness and futility, and its unlovely imagery - Eliot writes about barrenness (Eliot, 2005, I:19-24), rats creeping on their slimy bellies (Eliot, 2005, III:186-7) and of old men with withered female breasts (Eliot, 2005, III:219), to name just a few things - "The Wasteland" is the ultimate denunciation of post-Word War I Western civilization. However, even though the poem is an unhappy one..."

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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. "

Tags:eliot, prufrock, waste

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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. "

Tags:waste, land, eliot

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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."

Tags:eliot, prufrock, alienation