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VOL. 7, ISSUE 1 (2025)
Echoes of American life in the poetry of T. S. Eliot
Authors
Dr. Sumera Subuhi
Abstract
American poetry has emerged assured, mature
and easy, standing as it does on a firm footing today because of the rich
contributions made by a host of poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost,
Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S.
Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, E.E. Cummings, Allen Tate, Hart Crane, Robert Penn
Warren and Joseph Garcia Villa. Of
these poets, T.S. Eliot is definitely the most dominating literary figure of
this complex, soulless and industrial age. His multi-pronged artistic
activities- as a poet, as a dramatist, and as a critic- fairly sum up the
modern age in all its manifestations and multiplicities. In fact, he has
wielded immense influence upon the modern poetic consciousness through his
alert mind and strong pen. Through Eliot became a British citizen his origins
were completely American. It was only in 1927 that he embraced British
citizenship as a result of his growing interest in the English church and
state. However, until the very end of his life, he remained totally American
from inside. Eliot’s background and experience remained ‘representatively American,’
and that his poetry contains reverberations and echoes of America and American
life throughout. His allusiveness, objectivity, classicism, unified
sensibility, critical insight, wit and irony:
all these appeal to us and keep us guessing at his unique talent and
poetic sensibility.
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Dr. Sumera Subuhi "Echoes of American life in the poetry of T. S. Eliot". International Journal of Educational Research and Studies, Vol 7, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 1-4
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