Myers%E2%80%99+PSYCHOLOGY+%287th+Ed%29.jpg' alt='Brief American Pageant 7Th Edition Chapter Notes For Social Psychology' title='Brief American Pageant 7Th Edition Chapter Notes For Social Psychology' />T.S. Eliot Poetry Foundation.When T. S. Eliot died, wrote Robert Giroux, the world became a lesser place.Certainly the most imposing poet of his time, Eliot was revered by Igor Stravinsky not only as a great sorcerer of words but as the very key keeper of the language.For Alfred Kazin he was the mana known as T.S. Eliot, the model poet of our time, the most cited poet and incarnation of literary correctness in the English speaking world.Northrop Frye simply states A thorough knowledge of Eliot is compulsory for anyone interested in contemporary literature.Whether he is liked or disliked is of no importance, but he must be read.In 1. Eliot wrote A poet must take as his material his own language as it is actually spoken around him.Correlatively, the duty of the poet, as Eliot emphasized in a 1.Thus he dismisses the so called social function of poetry.The only method, Eliot once wrote, is to be very intelligent.As a result, his poetry has all the advantages of a highly critical habit of mind, writes A.Alvarez there is a coolness in the midst of involvement he uses texts exactly for his own purpose he is not carried away.Hence the completeness and inviolability of the poems.What he does in them can be taken no further.One gets the impression that anything he turned his attention to he would perform with equal distinction.Alvarez believes that the strength of Eliots intelligence lies in its training it is the product of a perfectly orthodox academic education.But Jacques Maritain once told Marshall Mc.Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online.Easily share your publications and get.Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.Need Any Edition Test Bank or Solutions Manual Please contact me emailtestbanksm01gmail.If you are looking for a test bank or a solution manual for your. 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Luhan that Eliot knows so much philosophy and theology that I do not see how he can write poetry at all.Eliot, however, never recognized a conflict between academic and creative pursuits.Of his early work, Eliot has said The form in which I began to write, in 1.Laforgue together with the later Elizabethan drama and I do not know anyone who started from exactly that point.Elsewhere he said The kind of poetry that I needed, to teach me the use of my own voice, did not exist in English at all it was only found in French, and Leonard Unger concludes that, insofar as Eliot started from an exact point, it was exclusively and emphatically the poetry of Laforgue.To a lesser extent, he was influenced by other Symbolists, by the metaphysical poets, by Donne, Dryden, and Dante.His appreciation of Shakespeare, writes Sir Herbert Read, was subject to his moral or religious scruples.With Samuel Johnson, whom, according to Sir Herbert, Eliot honoured above all other English writers, he shared a faith in God and the fear of death.In After Strange Gods Eliot wrote I should say that in ones prose reflections one may be legitimately occupied with ideals, whereas in the writing of verse one can deal only with actuality.From this Cleanth Brooks elaborates Poetry is the medium par excellence for rendering a total situationfor letting us know what it feels like to take a particular action or hold a particular belief or simply to look at something with imaginative sympathy.Brooks explains that it is Eliots notion that the poet is thus committed to turn the unpoetical into poetry and to fuse the matter of fact and the fantastic.But the meaning of reality, for Eliot, is especial, existing always at the edge of nothingness, where, as B.Rajan writes, the birth of meaning.Poetry cannot report the event it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself.This is a feat at least as difficult as it sounds, and if the poem succeeds in it, it is because, however much it remembers previous deaths by drowning, it creates its own life against its own thrust of questioning.In effect, writes Herbert Howarth, Eliot demonstrated that a poets business is not just reporting feeling, but extending feeling, and creating a shape to convey it.Eliots poetry, then, is a process of living by thought, says Rajan, of seeking to find peace through a satisfaction of the whole being.It is singular in its realization of passion through intelligence.It is driven by a scepticism which resolutely asks the question but refuses to stop short at it, by a sensibility sharply aware of the disorder, the futility, the meaninglessness, the mystery of life and suffering.If it attains a world of belief or a conviction of order, that conviction is won against the attacking strength of doubt and remains always subject to its corrosive power.Servlet?image_type=LRGFC&catalog=cengage&epi=10272752626639806081978068718815274100' alt='Brief American Pageant 7Th Edition Chapter Notes For Social Psychology' title='Brief American Pageant 7Th Edition Chapter Notes For Social Psychology' />Not all of us share Eliots faith.But all of us can accept the poetry because nearly every line of it was written while looking into the eyes of the demon.In 1. Conrad Aiken, although a life long friend and admirer of Eliot, not only could not share Eliots faith, but further questioned the validity of the poetry as poetry.His sense of the definite is intermittent, Aiken wrote it abandons him often at the most critical moment, and in consequence Mr.Eliot himself is forever abandoning us on the very doorstep of the illuminating.One has again and again the feeling that he is working, as it were, too close to the object.He passes quickly from one detail of analysis to another he is aggressively aware that he is thinking, his brow is knit but he appears to believe that mere fineness of detail will constitute, in the sequence of his comments, a direction.What happens is that he achieves a kind of filigree without pattern.But Alvarez, who calls Eliot a supreme interpreter of meditated experience, provides perhaps the most lucid analysis of Eliots method.The moments of greatest intensity have, as Eliot presents them, a certain obliqueness, an allusiveness, a controlling detachment, writes Alvarez.It is a poetry apart.He is, in some ways, a meditative poet.But this does not mean a poet who deals in abstractions Eliots meditations are meditations on experience, in which the abstractions belong as much as the images they are all a part of his particular cast of mind, the meaning he gives to past experience.But Eliot is, I think, a relatively indifferent, or uninterested, observer of the phenomenal world.His direct affirmations are always summings up of this style, concentrations for which the rest of his verse appears as so many hints.Aikens filigree without pattern may then be seen as Ungers magic lantern, which throws the nerves in patterns on a screen.Citing Prufrock, Unger compares Eliots poetry to a series of slides.Each slide is an isolated, fragmentary image, producing its own effect, including suggestions of some larger action or situation of which it is but an arrested moment.Richard Poirier explains that these procedural hesitancies, as a characteristic of form, have the total effect of enormous stamina Eliots reluctance of self assertion, by acknowledging all the possibilities open to it, emerges as an ever dangerously controlled strength.Poirier continues In Eliot the form is shaped by creative and de creative movements each movement is in itself usually very tentative, and yet each achieves by cumulative interaction a firmness that supports the other.The result is an extraordinary fusion of diffidence and dogmatism.And it is by this fusion that the poets experiences, says Frye, are shaped into a unity which takes its place in a literary tradition.By being assimilated into a tradition of which Eliot was always sharply aware, then, genuine poetry does contribute, as G.Wilson Knight notes, to the health of a culture, in that it tells us the truth about ourselves in our present situation.And it is just here, by creating such a poetry, that Eliot made his greatest gift to poetry.No poet has been so deeply honest, says Knight, and A.R. Scott James adds He excels by introducing us to our own generation.Mc. Luhan summarizes To purify the dialect of the tribe and to open the doors of perception by discovering a host of new poetic themes and rhythms was the especial achievement of T.S. Eliot. He gave us back our language enlivened and refreshed by new contacts with many other tongues.Certainly one of the most important ways in which Eliot fulfilled his self imposed duty to his own voice was by using the materials of the city for building his poetry.Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.Published on Feb 4, 2.Some of the pages in this issue have sections cut out of them The best copy available was scanned ON THE DRAWING BOARD General Convention R.
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