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Eliot — Related Poets. Robert Frost. Lisel Mueller. William Saphier. Marianne Moore. The magazine also reflected his growing religiousness and his devotion to the idea of a culture stratified by class and unified by Christianity. Meanwhile Eliot was crossing a divide in his career. He ended his preoccupation with one kind of alienation in "The Hollow Men" , where the will-less subjects of the poem cluster in a dead land, waiting like effigies for a galvanic revelation that does not come.

They comment on their lot in a spastic chorus that includes a children's game song, a fragment of the Lord's Prayer, and a parody of "world without end" and other expressions from the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. In Eliot became an Anglo-Catholic and a British citizen. With the heightened social consciousness of the worldwide economic depression, a reaction set in against his conservatism.

It grew more difficult to explain away on literary grounds the anti-Semitic references in several of his poems. He also declared that too many freethinking Jews would be a detriment to the kind of organic Christian culture he proposed.

This work, along with The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes toward a Definition of Culture , indicated Eliot's stand against the pluralistic society of most Western democracies.

Without a reconstruction of Christendom, the alternative, he felt, was paganism. With Ash Wednesday , while the literary tide was flowing Leftward, Eliot emerged as the sole orthodox Christian among important Anglo-American poets.

The title of this six-part poem refers to the beginning of Lent, the most intense season of penitence and self-denial in the Christian year. The poem's central consciousness is an aging penitent closer to the convert Eliot than his spokesman in any previous major poem. Like his antecedents, the penitent is alienated—but from God, not from society or nature; and following the precedents of Dante and St.

John of the Cross, the 16th-century Spanish mystic, he sets out to draw near the divine presence. The poem is his interior monologue narrating his progress and praying for guidance. The tone of unbroken sincerity and passionate yearning, of anxiety and some joy is new for Eliot. The penitent desires to abandon ambition, his fading powers of expression, the enticements of the world, and all that may prevent his mounting the turning stairs toward salvation.

Though his longing for the vision of God known in childhood is not fulfilled, he progresses toward it, and he will persist.

American critic F. Matthiessen remarked how Eliot with "paradoxical precision in vagueness" used wonderfully concrete images to convey the mystery of a spiritual experience.

In Eliot published After Strange Gods and also brought his religious and dramatic interests together in The Rock. This pageant mingles narrative prose with poetic dialogue and choruses as part of a campaign to raise funds to restore London's churches. Eliot's speakers ask for visible gathering places, where the "Invisible Light" can do its work. It has to do with Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was assassinated before the altar there in Its theme is the historical competition between church and state for the allegiance of the individual.

Its poetry suggests blank verse with deviations. Becket prepares, like the penitent in Ash Wednesday, to accept God's will, knowing that "humanity cannot bear much reality. In Eliot concluded his Poems with "Burnt Norton," the first of what became the Four Quartets, an extended work that proved to be his poetic viaticum.

This poem engendered three others, each associated with a place. The last two quartets appeared with the publication of Four Quartets The third, "The Dry Salvages," named for three small islands off the Massachusetts coast where Eliot vacationed in his youth, draws on his American experiences; and the fourth, "Little Gidding," derives from a visit to the site of a religious community, now an Anglican shrine, where the British king Charles I paused before he surrendered and went to his death.

Here Eliot asks forgiveness for a lifetime of mistakes, which no doubt includes his possible anti-Semitism of the years before the war. Each of the quartets is a separate whole but related to the others.

All employ the thematic structure of music and the five movements of The Waste Land. The theme, developed differently, is the same in each: a penitential Eliot seeks the eternal in and through the temporal, the still dynamic center of the turning world. One may seek or wait in any place at any time, for God is in all places at all times. The theme and method continue those of Ash Wednesday, but the feeling in Four Quartets is less passionately personal, more compassionate and reconciled. The verse is serene, poised, and sparsely graceful.

Here Eliot the fabulist appeared, and the humorist and wit resurfaced. The Family Reunion, the first of Eliot's four plays for the professional stage, appeared in Eliot concurred. The result was The Waste Land , one of the great poems of the 20th century. The Waste Land describes a quest for spiritual fulfillment, which is stymied by the social, cultural, and spiritual malaise, which gripped the Western world during and after World War I. The identity of narrator who undertakes the quest shifts dramatically as the poem progresses: at times is apparently Eliot himself; at times an array of mythological, historical, and fictitious characters.

Time and place shift also from Mylae in the third century B. Structurally the poem is a montage of events and images, dazzling in their intensity, some related to each other, some deliberately disorienting, the effect meant to reflect the confused despair of post-war Europe.

There are glimpses of hope, usually taking the form of a veiled offer of spiritual rearmament. There are also hints of ways out of the waste land, but the narrator never quite finds them. Eliot may have exorcized his demons after writing The Waste Land. In Massachusetts he missed Missouri's dark river, cardinal birds, and lush vegetation.

In Missouri he missed the fir trees, song sparrows, red granite shores, and blue sea of Massachusetts. Henry Ware Eliot, the father of T. Eliot, became chairman of the board of a brick company and served the schools and charities his father had helped found, as well as others. He married a New Englander, Charlotte Champ. After having six children, she focused her energy on education and legal protection for the young.

She also wrote a biography, some religious poems, and a dramatic poem Eliot grew up within the family's tradition of service to religion, community, and education. Years later he declared, "Missouri and the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any part of the world.

In St. Louis young Eliot received a classical education privately and at Smith Academy, originally named Eliot Academy. He composed and read the valedictory something that involves a farewell poem for his graduation in University in Eliot was shy and independent and he made a good impression as a contributor and editor of the Harvard Advocate.

He completed his bachelor of arts degree in three years. Eliot's stay at Harvard to earn a master of arts in philosophy the study of knowledge was interrupted by a year at the Sorbonne The University of Paris in Paris, France. He returned to Harvard in but in he went overseas again on a Harvard scholarship to study in Germany.

Ezra Pound — , the young American poet, discovered Eliot at Oxford. They shared a commitment to learning and poetry. While teaching, he completed his dissertation a writing on a subject that is required for a doctorate degree , Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.

The dissertation was accepted, but Eliot did not return to the United States to defend it and therefore did not receive his doctorate. Navy but was rejected for physical reasons. That year his first volume of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations, appeared and almost immediately became the focus for discussion and debate. Eliot's writing style spoke to the confusion and bad feelings that World War I had created in European and American societies.

This was most effective in the poem "The Love Song of J.