RHAPSODY ON A WINDY NIGHT

Rhapsody on a windy night by T.S. Eliot



Rhapsody on a windy night by T.S. Eliot

Introduction

Eliot's first collection of poetry was released in 1917. Poems included in this book relate to the 'American' period of his life, the beginning of the 1910s, when the poet has linked his fate with Harvard University, vigorously engaged in philosophy, and giving it far greater attention than poetry. Eliot had not yet emerged as an artist, and had no opportunity to evaluate their innovation in poetic form. He was in a stage of independent search of the artistic language, trying to adequately convey human attitude of the century. The first published poems appeared undoubted artistic success of the poet. In fact, breaking with the tradition of Victorian poetry, he explored new problems in their art form and poetry (Joel, 2004).

Discussion

The evolution of a reflective approach in the work of Eliot is looking a little different. It is connected with his philosophical positions. Unlike Joyce, he, being a religious man, is not thinking the world is devoid of meaning, and religion is not perceived as conditional text. In art, he is trying to avoid the pluralism of discursive practices that we are seeing in "Ulysses", and to a common language. Recognizing the limitations of language learning, Eliot said in a literary text fiction. Reflection game with artistic patterns cannot be and is not an end in itself for him. This is only a necessary and deliberate phase of his artistic development. Eliot, as we know is against the direct expression, knowing well that it generates non-individual vision of the world. Between the artist and the world is not only language but also the practice of various art systems, a kind of grid through which the perceived world of every age. Therefore, to achieve the true reality, to achieve individual words, Eliot is consistently mastering these practices, to understand their structure, to understand the degree of their adequacy (Cary, 2000).

The first collection of poems is rightly considered to be "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufroka," "Portrait of a Woman," "Rhapsody on a windy night" and "Preludes." The poem, "Rhapsody on a windy night" is revealing the consciousness of Eliot's personality, keeping the romantic vision of the world. Romantic text in the first collection of poem is the subject of analysis and, as the process of writing the narrator and the mental mechanisms is regulating this process. Eliot is demonstrating romantic pathos generating text and conventional, fictitious romantic works.

At the heart of this poems - a traditional romantic scheme: a man with inner passion is opposing to the surrounding external reality in which people are living according to the conventions, rules of conduct that is suppressing the human personality. Original romantic hero is challenging the world of external forms and entering into battle (Cary, 2000).

Supportive Evidence

Rhapsody on a windy night - is interesting primarily because it includes the most important areas of Eliot's lyrics - a tendency to an image of a ...