“Tradition and the Individual Talent” is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in The Egoist and later in Eliot’s first book of criticism, “The Sacred Wood”. The essay is also available in Eliot’s “Selected Prose” and “Selected Essays”. While Eliot is most often known for […]
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Answer: Eliot’s play foregrounds the theme of Christian martyrdom as Becket realizes that by being killed within the premises of the Canterbury cathedral at the hands of the Knights, he is going to become the champion of God, to vindicate the preordained glory of a martyr to his faith. In this play we have an
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Show how significantly has Eliot used time in his poem “The Waste Land”? Or, What novelties of technique do you notice in Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Answer: Eliot, as an inter-war interpreter or experimenter, deals with time in the poem “The Waste Land” as the most significant and instructive thing of the universe and of
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Prove that “The Waste Land” is a representation of modern sordidness. Or, Show that “The Waste Land” reveals the complexities and unhappiness of modern life. Answer: “The Waste Land”, the most suggestive and discussed poem by Eliot, illustrates the complexity and machine-like activity of modern man comparing with the glorious past of spiritual and moral
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Answer: Eliot, who believes that nothing can be done or made without any prior matter or substance, has written “The Waste Land” with the help of many mythical and literary references. Eliot is a critic-poet. He had a long range of reading different mythological interpretations. In the poem “The Waste Land”, he has used Holy
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How significantly has Eliot portrayed the conflict of a modern man in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? Or, What is Prufrock’s dilemma? Does he succeed in resolving it? Answer: As a keen observer of modern western world, Eliot had comprehended what are the wants and lacks of a modern man. “The
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Or. Comment on the significance of the title of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.Or. Explain the irony inherent in the title of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Or. What type of love song is sung in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? Discuss.
Answer: As a poet of modem complicated psychological environment, Eliot has expressed his views using imagery, references, and allusions of different kinds significantly. In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, we find many suitable imageries, references and allusions that have given the poem a high stand in transcending its limitation as only
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Answer: Eliot’s Love Song of Prufrock is one of the finest examples of dramatic monologue in the history of English Poetry. To know it clearly, we should firstly understand the term ‘dramatic monologue’. A monologue -is a long speech by a single person and `dramatic’ means conversational language of a character in a play that
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