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| Data: | 29.05.2006 |
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Testo
T. S. ELIOT
DATE:
1888-1965
EDUCATION:
His parents were wealthy and fond of culture
He studied at Harvard, Paris and Oxford university: cosmopolitan education
MAIN WORKS:
“the waste land” dedicated to Ezra Pound
He’s the 1st modern poet in English literature of the period between the 2 world war
INFLUENCES:
DANTE(Italian poetry):the capacity to express emotional experience based on the entire cultural reality of his time
JOHN DONNE: for immediacy and technical control
BAUDELAIRE(the symbolists): for his vision of the sordid aspects of the modern metropolis
IMAGIST MOVEMENT: for the use of clear and precise images and concision in language
EZRA POUND: because he helped and encouraged E. and he revised the opera before the publication
THEMES:
- Inability to communicate
- Lack of love
- corruption
- alienation and sterility of modern life
FEATURES OF STYLE:
- lack in plot
- no logical time sequences(present, past and future are mixed)
- irregular rhyme scheme
- characters not really defined
- similes, alliterations, repetitions
- juxtapositions: a contrast of images which strike the reader, between lyrical and everyday images
- quotations from different language
- atmosphere of alienation and spiritual sterility
- geographical references(historical, religious, to death, literary)
- repetitions of sounds and words
- mythical methods: modern life can be more deeply interpreted if it’s presented parallel to equivalent models from the mythical past
STRUCTURE:
Which breaks away from the canons of traditional poetry reminds us of:
- Joyce’s experimentation in novel writing
- Picasso in painting
- Stravinsky in music
→affinities with other work of Modernism
Every work is composed of the contrast between past and present:
Past → glorious, meaningful(he believe in the importance of the past)
Present → meaningless, sterile
Much attention to the old tradition
In the last lines: THE PAST SHOULD BE ALTERED BY THE PRESENT AND THE PRESENT SHOULD BE DIRECTED BY THE PAST
CHARACTERS:
People recite monologues, sexual relationship are a manifestation of violence or boring
HIS CONCEPTION OF POETRY:
Poetry had to be objective and impersonal to express the complexities of reality
Images are the “objective correlative” of the emotions = THE ONLY WAY TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS IN THE FORM OF ART (objects, situations...)
