Essays on T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot is a writer who is universally acknowledged not only a poet but also as a social critic in the twentieth century. He established himself not only as a poet but also as an analytic critic of both the past and present and guarded...

“Marxist literary criticism maintains that a writer’s social class, and it’s prevailing ´ideology´ have a major bearing on what is written by a member of that class” To what extent is this true when looking at T. S Eliot’s The Wasteland? When looking at the...

Eliot message is not very clear, for its hidden meaning, it is what makes the poem the most important of its time. This poem is unique, unlike Eliot’s other poems, the use of mythology in a very artistic way is one reason. This paper explores...

The ability of texts to have a lasting value or resonance with the reader lies in their power to create a distinctive voice through which they express their concerns of the human experience. Influenced by the post war paradigm of existentialism in the early twentieth...

T.S. Elliot as a progenitor of Modernism believes poetry’s capability of encompassing the totality and vagaries of human experience in the era of rapid industrial expansion, which he perceived as fractured and denigrated. His unique linguistic and structural arrangement communicates the paralysis of a generation,...

Despite the implications of the First World War, an internal struggle individuals experience is through physical decay of their surroundings. The dehumanisation of the modern age is presented in Preludes by T.S. Eliot through the fragmentation of the body in the synecdoche ‘muddy feet’ and...

‘Preludes’ is an imagist poem written by T.S Eliot prior to his days of becoming an influential poet. It was written over the span of two years which was in 1910 and 1911. It consists of four sections which comprise of seemingly related vignettes of...