T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot, one of the greatest poets known to man, was a poet to remember. His life resembles the model American life; he was brought up in a religious, conservative family, he enjoyed sports of all kinds, and got a college degree. T.S. Eliot, a winner of the Nobel Prize, lived a traditional life and produced numerous famous works of literature. T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis Missouri on September 26th, 1888; he was a descendent of a distinguished New England family. As a child, Eliot enjoyed boxing, baseball, comic strips, and music hall performances. Between 1906 and 1914, he attended Harvard, studying broadly in Literature and Philosophy. As a graduate student in Philosophy, Eliot went overseas to study principally at the Sorbonne and Oxford. With the eruption of World War I in 1914, he came to the decision to live in England.In 1915, he married Vivien Haigh-Wood, whose mental instability led to her confinement in mental institutions from 1930 until her death in 1947. This emotional hardness produced by his marriage evidently encouraged some intense passages in Eliot's poetry. Living in London, he worked as a teacher, a bank clerk and an editor of the imagist magasine The Egoist. From 1920 to 1
The shade from the trees is gone because the trees are bare. This elongated poem is separated into five different sections. You can see Eliot's religion in some of his poems such as in "Mrs. She also states, "I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter" The second section is a visionary, catastrophic invitation to journey into a desert waste, where the speaker will show the reader, "something different from either, Your shadow at morning striding behind you, Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;[He] will show you fear in a handful of dust"I found this to be rather chilling, as it mixes with the childhood memories about a "hyacinth girl" (Line 36) I began to wonder what a Hyacinth Girl was, seeming how it is was way above my vocabulary. The opening line: "The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf.
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