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Is T.s Eliot's poetry appreciated in modern society?

“Of withered leaves about your feet…You dozed, and watched the night revealing, the thousand sordid images …Of which your soul was constituted…The notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.”(Preludes) These are one of the many demoralizing lines found in Eliot’s poetry.
T.S. Eliot is considered to be one of the most prominent poets and playwrights of his time and his works are said to have promoted to “reshape modern literature” (Britannica). He was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri and studied at Harvard and Oxford. It was at Harvard where he met his guide and mentor Ezra Pound, a well-known modernist poet. Pound encouraged Eliot to expand his writing abilities and publish his work. His published work was alarming and little to find enjoying. He gained the ability to write poetry filled with wisdom while adding his own passionate language. Eliot received the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1948. His poetic nature changed as he matured and the...

Posted by: Gelinde Cobbs

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