T. S. Eliot. Biography презентация

Content:
Eliot’s family
Education of a poet
Early poetry
The Waste Land
Four Quartets
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Honor and old age

Born: September 26, 1888
St. Louis, Missouri
American-born English author, poet, critic, playwright, editor, and publisher

Eliot’s family
Eliot grew up within the family's tradition of service to religion, community, and education.

Education of a poet
In St. Louis young Eliot received a classical education privately and at Smith Academy, originally named Eliot Academy. He composed and read the valedictory (something that involves a farewell) poem for his graduation in 1905.

Early poetry
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Eliot tried to join the U.S. Navy but was rejected for physical reasons. That year his first volume of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations, appeared.

In The Waste Land, the weakening of society is compared with a shattered wasteland.

The poem proposes solutions for recreating personal and caring communities through a variety of methods and with the joining of different religious beliefs.

In 1936 Eliot concluded his Poems 1909–1935 with "Burnt Norton," the first of what became the Four Quartets.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The poem follows the conscious experience of a man, Prufrock (relayed in the " stream of consciousness " form characteristic of the Modernists), lamenting his physical and intellectual inertia with the recurrent theme of carnal love unattained.

The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante and refers to a number of literary works, including Hamlet and those of the French Symbolists.

Honor and old age
In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize and the British Order of Merit, and the list of his honors continued to grow.