T. S. Eliot Research Paper

Meghan Horn

ENG 352 OL Midterm

Dr. Frechie

February 27th, 2015

T.S. Eliot The early part of the 20th century marked some big changes and much advancement. Literary modernism emerged as a result of changes in the cultural, political, and artistic sensibilities that occurred before, during, and after the war (Modernsim). From the time of the war, the world was not the same anymore. Writers and artists were struggling to find new ways to create art that reflected the changes due to the war. As for style, which we saw with Stein, writers began to play “games” with time, order, perspective, point of view and form. Novels became more difficult to read, as novels had fragmented plots without clear beginnings, middles or ends (Modernism).

Eliot believed that people were getting dumber and dumber and his message to his readers were in fact to get to a library if you didn’t understand what he was talking or referring to. Today, as the 21st century is a very technological era, we rely fully on “Googling” when we don’t understand what something means. If Eliot lived in this era, I think it would be a lot similar to the world that he thought he lived in back in the 20th century. Instead of knowing logically what something means, we all rely on the Internet to find our

Pound encouraged Eliot to cut out an extensive part of the poem, encouraging him to break up the rhyme scheme. It seemed that Pound was more focused on editing the actual length of the poem rather than the content itself. Pound has one of the longest poems, but also known for one of the shortest poems. Pound believed that he could best capture his vision in a painting, yet he wasn’t a painter. By using the Japanese poem called haikus, he tried to adapt this form to his vision. This result ended up being one of the most famous works of modern