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T.S. Eliot
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) began his spiritual enquiry as a young man. At university he studied comparative religions and the medieval mystics. His thinking was greatly influenced by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and the poet Ezra Pound. Eliot’s experimentation with forms of poetry were a ....
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....ion or hope. While the ‘hollow men’ are not totally empty, even their stuffing is dead grass: ‘Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!’ and they are lifeless: ‘Shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion.’ Life is meaningless and Death seems to be the master of both life and death: ‘death’s other kingdom’ I like the strength of the poetry here. Eliot juxtaposes strong ideas together, e.g. ‘paralysed force’ in such a way that they appear to cancel each other out, .... |
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