Mod B T S Elliot Flashcards
Intro
T.S Eliot’s oeuvre of poems depicts the tension between the vacuity of modern European society and the universal journey for self-discovery, fabricating a canonical piece that is inherently laced with textual integrity.
Eliot exposes the detriments of modernism on the psyche in ‘The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1910), ‘The Hollow Men’ (1925) and ‘The Journey of the Magi’ (1927), as his synthesis of form, content and rhetoric subtly reflects his own search for identity within the struggles of being human.
Written during an era of disintegrating forces that fragment the conventions of romanticism, Eliot captures the despair of early modernist society in his critical portrayal of societal constructs
Sustained throughout Eliot’s corpus is the struggle to escape the pervasiveness of monotony with the culmination of Eliot’s quest in ‘Magi’ exposing the ultimate truth that religion cannot sufficiently fulfill the vacuum of meaning society has torn. Hence, Eliot forges a timeless body of literature in his representation of the struggles being human as an everlasting obstacle in the pursuit of personal meaning.
