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=T.S. Eliot's Life =

T.S. Eliot was an American-British poet, author and critic. His famous use of literature led him to win many awards such as the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. Eliot received his education and tools for his writing across the world. He went to Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford. He moved to the United Kingdom at age 25. In 1941 he settled in London and became a banker then a teacher. Eliot had many accomplishments such as working at the publishing house of Faber & Faber, which later he became director of. Then he founded and edited the literary journal Criterion. Eliot was also a very dedicated Anglican and many of his poems reflected that. Some of his most famous poems and novels such as, //For Lancelot Andrews, or The Waste Land// were inspired by his religion. Eliot lived a long life with many accomplishments, plays, novels, critical essays, and poems under his belt. Eliot died of emphysema due from smoking all his life on January 4th 1965.

= Eliots Stlye = Eliot's writing style was said to be daring compared to other poems in the twentieth century. He never compromised with what the public wanted and never changed his poems if people thought they were too complicated. Also Eliot admits that his poetry is unique because of his move from America to England in 1914. His style is a combination of many inspiring things in his life.

= Fun Facts  =  <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">    <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">He was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St Lois, Missouri, on September 26 1884. <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Eliot was one of seven children. <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Afflicted with a congenital double hernia, he was always being looked after by his mother and his five sisters. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis until he was sixteen. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">During his last year at Smith he visited the 194 St. Louis fair and was so taken with the fair’s native villages that he wrote short stories of about primitive life for the Smith Academy // Record//. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">While at Harvard he began a romantic attachment to Emily Hale, a refined Bostonian who once played Mrs. Elton opposite his Mr. Woodhouse in an amateur production of //Emma//. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- <span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">       <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">By 1909-1919 his poetic vocation had been confirmed: he joined the board and was briefly secretary of Harvard’s literary magazine, the //Advocate//.

=Poems A to Z=

|| <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|A Cooking Egg] || = Explication  =
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 2  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Ash Wednesday]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 3  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Aunt Helen]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 4  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 5  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 6  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Conversation Galante]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 7  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Cousin Nancy]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 8  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Dans le Restaurant]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Four Quartets 2: East Coker]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 12  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 13  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Gerontion]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 14  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Growltiger's Last Stand]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 15  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Gus: The Theatre Cat]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 16  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Hysteria]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 17  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Journey Of The Magi]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 18  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|La Figlia che Piange]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 19  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Le Directeur]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 20  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Lune de Miel]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 21  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Macavity: The Mystery Cat]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 22  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mélange Adultère de Tout]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 23  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Morning at the Window]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 24  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mr. Apollinax]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 25  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 26  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mr. Mistoffelees]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 27  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 28  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Old Deuteronomy]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 29  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Portrait of a Lady]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 30  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Preludes]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 31  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Rhapsody on a Windy Night]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 32  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 33  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Sweeney among the Nightingales]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 34  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Sweeney Erect]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 35  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Ad-Dressing Of Cats]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 36  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Boston Evening Transcript]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 37  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Hippopotamus]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 38  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Hollow Men]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 39  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 40  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Naming Of Cats]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 41  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Old Gumbie Cat]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 42  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Rum Tum Tugger]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 43  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Song Of The Jellicles]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 44  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|The Waste Land]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 45  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Whispers of Immortality]  ||

__ Explication of “Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot: __ T.S Eliot’s background and views about religion are seen plainly in this five part poem “Hollow Men” by him. The Poem presents the idea that when a love one passes death splits into two kingdoms. The first is Heaven which he compares to ‘Sunlight on a broken column’ and ‘tree singing and voices in the wind singing’. In the poem, the speaker is frightened. He is afraid to see God in his dreams and realizes it is easier to do wrong and hide behind it. But the setting is during a friend’s funeral so it is impossible to avoid God, or ‘Eyes’. Death’s other kingdom is the pain and loss that comes with it. Earth becomes hell while those who passed on are in heaven. The speaker is compelled to speak because he is stuffed with earth’s indulgences but is hollow without God or his friend. His tone begins with simple observations and then turns desperate and he realizes how hope can save him from being an empty man. The poem’s purpose seems to show that life can be great and so can heaven. Both Kingdoms belong to us. “Hollow Men” is split into five sections. Its structure has three stanzas in each section except the fifth one is set up a little differently. Some lines are indented and italicized to emphasize what the speaker has discovered about religion. Some lines also rhyme for more effect. Also the last stanza is mostly repetition of how the speaker believes the world will end.

= Sources = Biography information: 'TS Eliot' by [|//Columbia Encyclopedia//]//, Sixth Edition.// http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Th.html 'T.S. Eliot biography' //Famous Poets and Poems.com// http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/biography

'T.S. Eliot's Life And Career' //Ronald Bush// http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm Poems: List of poems, //Famous Poets and Poems.com// http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/apoems

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