T.S ELiot

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Thomas Stearns Eliot

Table of content

- His Life

-His part in the lost generation

-His famous works

-The influence of his work nowadays

His life

-September, 26th 1888

- Troubled childhood

-Smith Academy

-St. Louis

-Vivienne Haigh-Wood

- Esmé Valerie Fletcher

-January, 4th 1965

His part in the lost generation

- World War I.

-Disoriented, wandering, directionles feelings

-Conservative moral irrelevant

His works

-Relatively small number of poems

-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 

-"The Waste Land" 

-Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 

-Four Quartets 

His poetry

-individually

-Periodicals, small books, pamphlets

-'Prufrock and Other Observations'. 

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 

-Before  World War I.

-classic modernist themes: 
War, cities, boredom, and fear

"The Waste Land" 

-1922

- Influential and controversial poem 

- Five parts

-"April is the cruelest month," 

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 

-The amusing antics of cats and the foibles of people

-Musical Cats.

Four Quartets 

- six years period

- Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions

-the Nobel Prize in literature

What is his relevance

- Profound influence 

-Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

-May 11, 1981 in the West End, London 

-The New London Theatre.

-2010.

What year did Vivienne Haigh-Wood and Eliot get married?

1. 1915
2. 1925
3. 1916
4. 1933

How old was T.S. Eliot when he started with poetry?

1. 25
2. 17
3. 19
4. 14

Who was tom?

1. T.S Eliot
2. His friend
3. His teacher
4. His cat

what were some of the classic modernist themes?

When was the first performance of cats?

1. May 11th 1991
2. May 11th, 1981
3. August 11th 1991
4. august 11th 1981

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