Questions tagged [t-s-eliot]
Questions about the U.S.-born British poet, literary critic, dramatist and publisher T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) and his works. As a poet, Eliot is best known for poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "The Wasteland" (1922) and the "Four Quartets" (1943). His plays include "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935) and "The Cocktail Party" (1949). As a critic, he is said to have influenced by New Criticism.
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Why does the first chapter of Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark" open with this Eliot verse in Black Matters?
As an epigraph a T. S. Eliot verse appears at the beginning of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination:
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, ...
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Could T.S. Eliot's namedrop early on in Catch-22 be a play on The Wasteland
Both pieces of work are reactions to post-war trauma, but unlike The Wasteland, which aims to put back together the fragments of Western Literature, fractured by The Great War, and sees the grand ...
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What kind of repetition-specific literary device is being used in this quote? (e.g. anaphora, epistrophe, diacope, etc.)
I'm analysing the below quote from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
"To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
I want to identify the specific kind of repetition that's being ...
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How is the poem “Gerontion” affected by being told in the first person?
The poem ‘Gerontion’ by T.S. Eliot is about an old man and his life. The very first lines if the poem are as follows:
Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
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Understanding the meaning of "Eructation of unhealthy souls" in T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton
In the third section of Burnt Norton we find these lines
Eructation of unhealthy souls
Into the faded air, the torpid
Eructation have two meanings
Belching
Eruption
So, if we take up the second ...
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