THE POETICS OF T. S. ELIOT IN THE XXI CENTURY
Keywords:
култура, поетика, модернизам, савремено друштво, интернет, медији, информације, отуђеност, традицијаAbstract
The main goal of this paper is to interpret the poems and essays of t. s. eliot in relation to key issues of the contemporary world. eliot is, thus, portrayed not only as a major poet and critic of modernist literary epoch, but also as a profound thinker who had anticipated some artistic and cultural tendencies which appeared, or reached their culmination, only after his death. The first part of the paper analyses eliot’s poetry, including some poems from his early books (Prufrock and Other Observations and Poems 1920), The Waste Land, his best-known poetic work, as well as his later poems such as “The hollow men“ or four Quartets. The second part of the paper deals with eliot’s essays. some of them were published in the The Sacred Wood, others were first presented as lectures at the university of virginia and later incorporated in After Strange Gods, while some of the texts, particularly those ones describing various aspects of culture, appeared during the poet’s last creative years.
References
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