T.S.Eliot

Thinking Activity Of T.S.Eliot

1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?
➤ Eliot idea's of tradition were extraordinarily influential. His essay was a major contributor to modernism's rise and hegemony.The essay came to be regarded as conservative, elitist, obsessed with order and backword looking. He assumes the authority to choose what represents great poetry, and several fronts. Eliot's idea of tradition, as critics and theorists have been doing of late, from a more impartial perspective.


2. What do you understand by Historical Sense? (Use these quotes to explain your understanding)
➤ The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of  it's presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of europe from homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence an composes a simultaneous order. This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.

3. What is the relationship between “tradition” and “the individual talent,” according to the poet T. S. Eliot?
➤Eliot's concept about of tradition and individual talent, here we can see that how Eliot associate with tradition. He gave general dictionary meaning of tradition. There is conflict between traditional and morden. Morden automatically becomes good and traditional automatically becomes not so good. It's compare with this morden writer to find in this present work.

4. Explain: "Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum".
➤ Eliot demands wide reading to the readers. Readers should have very voracious readers. Then he also finds that Shakespeare seems to be an exception. Shakespeare is not well read writer. He is exceptional. Shakespeare absorbed his age. Eliot says that genius have ability to absorb knowledge through understanding of surroundings.

5. Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
➤In this critic should appreciate the work without any personal intention. while reading poetry there has no any effect of poet. criticize poetry without any bias or prejudice, if we like any work its because of quality of work not because of poet.

6. How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of depersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum.
➤ The theory of depersonalization of honest criticism and sensitive appreciations directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. If we compare the chemical elements with abstract things from the poet's life.Explai this theory is,

So2 – Sulphur dioxide = poet’s feelings and emotions

O2 – oxygen = poet’s experience and imaginations

Platinum - = poet’s mind

H2SO4 – sulfuric acid = poetry.

Mere feelings and emotions cannot make the poem. And same like platinum poets mind does not reflect in poetry.e of quality of work not because of poet.

In that perception Eliot describe about this whole science formula.

7. Explain: " Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."

➤ The above quotation mention poet, It means that poet writes poetry to escape from his emotions of his life which he faces and suffers     By expresses his emotions it gIves him pleasure. This thing convert himself into poet .

8.Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic.

➤  Both points are here:-

          " Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."    

          Second idea of depersonalization that The man who suffers and the mind which creates are different.