T. S. ELIOT (inglese)

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis in 1888 but he became a resident of London in 1915 and a naturalized British citizen in 1927. He was poet, dramatist, literary critic and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. He's best known for his poem in five parts, The Waste Land, the most influential poem of the 20th century in the Western culture. Pound helped him to structure the poem with substancial cuts, rendering it more manlily prophetical and pithy. Eliot wrote the poem in 1922, after the first world war. The Waste Land is an erudite work that expresses his conception of sterility of modern society in contrast with societies of the past. The waste land of the poem is the modern European culture, a desert, which had come too far from its spiritual roots. The reader must work through Eliot's footnotes to appreciate the poem and to understand the various and obscure allusions. Eliot's poetry reacts to the tendencies of the Romanticism. He proposed a new way of writing based on impersonality. He used objective correlative, an attempt to communicate feelings and sensation by external objects and situations, able to suggest elements not logically linked. It's a set of events, a chain of objects, which shall be give us equivalent emotions. In the poem we find quotations and association taken from French symbolism poets (Boudelaire for example). So The Waste Land is a collage written in the form of drama. The problem of time in Eliot is crucial and is connected with his religiosity. In the poem the logical sense of time is absent, abolished.

Autore: Giaco3000 D&D: La Prima Runa