Word: eliot
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...literature, things were ready to fall apart on their own, so any excuse to do so--especially one as revered as a theoretical restructuring of the universe--was embraced. In 1919 relativity exploded upon science. In 1922 T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land had a similar effect on literature. Yet when Eliot wrote, "these fragments I have shored against my ruins," people took up the fragments but ignored the shoring...
...though, in Eliot and other 20th century poets and novelists, lay in the prominence of the pronoun I--the center of relativistic thought. Thus spake the confessional poetry of the 1960s, the memoirs in the 1980s and 1990s, the prominence of the narrator in all of modern fiction. A commonplace paradox that was soon to characterize fiction was that the antihero, who was beset and disempowered by modern bureaucracies and machines, was simultaneously exalted by his diminished status...
SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT...
...Ulysses is published. So is T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Some claim it is a hoax, a parody of modernism's obscurantist tendencies. Others see its analogies to Joyce's work. Both are inferentially portraits of a pullulating urban landscape; both wear their classical erudition boldly. Which is to say, both writers embrace modernism's most basic hallmark--self- and cultural awareness--and know exactly what traditions they are undermining. The difference between them may be largely a matter of fastidiousness. Ulysses is finally an affirmation: "I put my arms around him yes and drew him down...
Best Poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot...