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Estos trabajos ejercieron y siguen ejerciendo un influjo considerable, así como su largo estudio sobre Dante.

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These works exercised and still exercise a considerable influence, as does as his long study about Dante.

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Sirvieron para que Eliot se descubriera a sí mismo y fueron un estímulo para los poetas más jóvenes.

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They helped Eliot to discover himself and were a stimulant for younger poets.

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En su ensayo sobre la posibilidad del drama poético, dice: “La labor de la inteligencia consistió sobre todo en una purificación, en abstenerse de la reflexión, en incluir en la exposición lo suficiente para que la reflexión sea innecesaria.”

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In his [Eliot’s] essay about the possibility of poetic drama, he says: “The work of the intelligence consists above all in purification, in abstaining from reflection, in including in the exposition what is sufficient so that reflection becomes unnecessary.”

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Su teatro, acaso sin otra excepción que Murder in the Cathedral, no deja en la memoria un solo personaje vívido.

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His [Eliot’s] theater, perhaps without another exception besides Murder in the Cathedral, leaves in the memory not even one vivid [living] character.

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Eliot, en sus piezas teatrales, ha querido crear para nuestro tiempo un verso de una libertad casi oral, análogo al de la última época de Shakespeare y de sus continuadores, Webster y Ford.

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Eliot, in his theater pieces, has wanted to create for our time a verse of an almost oral liberty [freedom], analogous to that of the last period of Shakespeare and his continuers [followers], Webster and Ford.

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Emplea también elementos clásicos como el mensajero y el coro.

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He [Eliot] also employs classical elements like the messenger and the chorus.

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Este último, en The Family Reunion, desempeña un curioso papel: corresponde a la subconciencia.

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This last one [the chorus], in The Family Reunion, carries out a curious part [role]: it corresponds to the subconscious.

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Los personajes, que hablan de manera realista, interrumpen su diálogo para decir a un tiempo lo que sienten; luego retoman la conversación, sin darse cuenta de los extraños versos que han recitado.

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The characters, who talk in a realistic manner, interrupt their dialogue to say what they feel; then they resume the conversation, without realizing [unconscious of] the strange verses they have recited.

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En Murder in the Cathedral, el coro declara la impotencia y el presentimiento del pueblo ante la obscura voluntad del rey y su trágica consecuencia.

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In Murder in the Cathedral, the chorus declares the impotency and presentiment [forebodings] of the people before [with respect to] the obscure will of the king and its tragic consequence.

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En el prólogo de su antología de Ezra Pound, Eliot declara que éste partió de Whitman, Browning y poetas provenzales y chinos, en tanto que él llegó al verso libre por la lectura de Laforgue y Tristán Corbiére.

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In the prologue [preface] of his anthology of Ezra Pound, Eliot declares that this one [Pound] started in Whitman, Browning, and the Provencal and Chinese poets, while he [Eliot] arrived at free verse through the reading of Laforgue and Tristán Corbiére.

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La tierra yerma simboliza en The Waste Land (1922) un estilo de vida del cual han sido exluidos los conceptos del bien y del mal, y corresponden a la desilusión de los años immediatamente posteriores a la guerra de 1918.

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The barren land symbolizes in The Waste Land (1922) a style of life from which has been excluded the concepts of good and evil, [which] corresponds to the disillusionment of the years immediately following the war of 1918.

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Ash Wednesday apareció en 1930 y lo integran seis poemas.

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Ash Wednesday appeared in 1930 and is made up of six poems.

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Las últimas líneas, que nos muestran el viento y el mar pero no áun las naves, significan la entrega del alma a la voluntad divina.

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The last lines, which show us the wind and the sea but not even the ships, signify the delivery of the soul to the divine will.

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Quizá la obra más importante de Elliot son los Four Quartets, reunidos bajo este nombre en 1944.

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Perhaps the most important work of Eliot is the Four Quartets, united [collected] under this name in 1944.

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Si bien publicados aisladamente a partir de 1940, forman una unidad que es de afirmación, no de negación.

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Although published individually starting in 1940, they form a unity of affirmation instead of negation.

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Los cuatro títulos son cuatro lugares de Inglaterra y América.

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The four titles are four places in England and America.

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La palabra cuarteto no es arbitraria; la estructura de los cuatro poemas es la equivalencia poética de una sonata en la que cabe distinguir cinco movimientos.

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The word quartet is not arbitrary; the structure of the four poems is the poetic equivalent of a sonata in which one can distinguish five movements.

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El tema central, ya prefigurado en Family Reunion, es la posibilidad cristiana de una fusion de lo temporal con lo eterno.

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The central theme, already prefigured [foreshadowed] in Family Reunion, is the Christian possibility of a fusion of the temporal with the eternal.

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Literariamente, Eliot se ha definido como clasicista, políticamente como monárquico; en cuanto a religión, como anglicano.

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Literally Eliot has defined himself as a classicist, politically as a monarchist; in terms of religion, as an Anglican.