Case Study

Context

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis. His father was arrived from a socially connected Boston family line. T. S. Eliot forever felt the passing of his family's New England ancestors and appeared to be fairly ashamed of his father's industry achievements; all through his life span he frequently assayed to come back to the epi-center of Old English civilization, 1st by attending to Harvard University and then by moving abroad to England, where he endured from 1914 till his demise. T. S. Eliot commenced graduate discipline in philosophical science at Harvard University and finished his thesis, though the eruption of First World War forbade him from attending his test sessions and obtaining the academic degree. By that time, although, T. S. Eliot had by now scripted “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and the War, which held him in UK, led him to make a decision to follow poetry on a full-time basis.

Analysis

T. S. Eliot ascribed a good deal of his early fashion to the French symbolizes—Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarmé, and Laforgue—whom he 1st came across in college, in a publication by Symons called The Symbolist campaign in Literature. It is lenient to empathize how come a young aspirant poet would prefer to simulate these glamorous Gipsy anatomies, but their elemental consequence on his poetry is mayhap less fundamental than he arrogated. Although he adopted from them their power to steep poetry with eminent intellectualism when asserting a sensuousness of speech, T. S. Eliot also acquired a good deal that was fresh and genuine. His former exercises, such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land, depict on an extended array of ethnic relation to describe an advanced universe that is in downfalls even for some reason beautiful and profoundly meaningful. T. S. Eliot employs methods such as medley and opposition to constitute his aims without being forced to contend them expressly. As Ezra Loomis Pound once magnificently articulated, T. S. Eliot genuinely acted “develop himself.” As well as showcasing an assortment of poetical conceptions, T. S. Eliot's former poetry also acquires a series of references that accommodate the kind of the advanced human as delineated by Edward Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and other poets of T. S. Eliot's generation. The rubric role of “Prufrock” is an excellent model: alone, neurasthenic, excessively rational, and absolutely incompetent of conveying himself to the external universe.

Ideas, Motives and Symbolizations

Ideas

The Discredited Awareness of Humankind

Like several advanced authors, T. S. Eliot desired his poetry to convey the delicate mental state of humankind in the age of 20th century. The authorizing of Victorian ideals and the psychic trauma of First World War disputed ethical beliefs of masculine individuality, inducing creative persons to doubt the romantic well-written ideal of a visionary-poet adequate to altering the universe through poetry. Modern day authors desired to enchant their changed universe, which they comprehended as broken, aliened, and defamed. EU lost full contemporaries of young men to the repulsions of the supposed First World War, inducing a universal crisis of maleness as survivors scrambled to ascertain their position in a ...