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  • Thomas Stearns Eliot was an influential 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, American by birth and English by choice.
  • His major poetic works include "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men," "Ash Wednesday," and "The Four Quartets."
  • Eliot's poetry reflects themes of cultural disintegration, man's alienation, and the emptiness of modern life post-World War I.
  • His works often explore personal identity, faith, and the complex relationship between time and eternity.
  • Eliot's literary production is divided into a nihilistic phase post-WWI and a faith-driven phase post-1927 conversion.

Thomas stearns eliot's background

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet above all but also a critic and a playwright. American by birth but English by choice he is considered to be one of the greatest 20th century poets. His most important works are:

· Poems: The Waste Land

The Hollow men

Ash Wednesday

The Four Quartets

Journey of the Magi

Old Possum’s Book of practical Cats

· Plays: The Confidential Clerk

Murder in the Cathedral

The Family Reunion

The Cocktail Party

The Elder Statesman

Themes in eliot's poetry

His poetry written after World War I witnesses the cultural disintegration of contemporary society due to industrialization, mass production, consumerism, collapse of values. He dealt with

· man’s alienation

· the problem of personal identity

· the problem of faith

· the relation between past, present and future

· the relation between time and eternity

· the fear of living

· the emptiness of our time

· the lack of communication

Eliot's phases of production

Eliot’s production is divided into two phases:

1. marked by nihilism due to the decay of western civilization after World War I, in which he focuses on the squalor of his contemporary society seen as a modern hell which is urban life (the Waste Land, the Hollow Men)

2. after his conversion in 1927, where faith is the answer to doubts and to the sad and gloomy vision of modern world (Ash Wednesday, the Four Quartets).

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