Essays on T.s. Eliot

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering- and it’s all over much too soon” (Woody Allen). We were all told from a young age of what we should want in our future. Whether it was told by parents, teachers, television, or the internet they...

Imagination is a powerful tool in which it has an ability to strongly influence an individual’s perception of their uncertain future. Most of the time when individuals are faced with uncertain futures seek to either embrace or reject these uncertainties through their imagination. The rejection...

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world...

There is a lot in the world that there is to question from love, the world, existence, and much more. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point through their eyes. Modernism was the...

T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ creates a sense of disillusion as one of the central ideas of modernism through the inclusion of it as one of the key themes in this work. Unlike the romantic period that preceded it, the...

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-English Poet, literary critic, editor, playwright, and the leader of the Modernist movement in Poetry. His poems display the anxieties of living in the modern world. He espouses the belief that the lack of meaning in society is caused by...

The philosophical movement of modernism yearned to banish traditional ways of thinking and revitalise the way modern civilisation viewed life arising from the Industrial Revolution, followed then by World War I. T.S. Eliot permeates a perturbing, and in many instances, unpromising portrayal of the tumult...

Jim Carrey once said, “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in the world”. Throughout T. S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ the main character characterization explains why he locks his true identity, the one he desperately wish to share...

Thomas Stearns Eliot, who was born in Missouri (U.S.) in 1888 and died in London, (England) in in 1965, was a writer and poet. He is also considered a frontrunner of the Modernist movement, that spans from 1910s to the 1960s. These characteristics can be seen in The...

‘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...