Thomas Stearns Eliot #279549 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

The impersonality of the artist

T.S. Eliot wrote many important critical essays on ancient and ________ authors.
T.S. Eliot explored the theory of poetry and the fundamental ________ of literary criticism.
T.S. Eliot expressed his idea that the artist has to be impersonal and to separate his ________ from his creations.
The two ________The Sacred Wood and Selected Essays were published in 1920 and 1932.

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The Waste Land: the speaking voice

The poem, which is considered a central work in Symbolism, does not follow any order and doesn't have an internal unity. Eliot uses fragmented images of metaphysical narratives. There is a contrast between the fertility of a mythical past and the values of the present world. However, there is one voice, which all the fragmentary passages seem to belong to: this is the voice of a single personality transcending the limits of space and time.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot: life and works

A: Eliot became a British citizen and joined the Church of England in 1927.

B: After his conversion, Eliot wrote religious poems like Murder in the Cathedral and The Family Reunion.

C: Two important plays of the 1930s are Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets.

D: Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

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The mythical method

A: was also employed by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

B: is employed to hide the antithesis between past and present.

C: is based on the idea that old myths are absent in modern society.

D: in Eliot uses both the Bible and Hindu sacred texts.

E: is rejected by Eliot in his essay Ulysses, Order and Myth.

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The Waste Land: structure

A: 'The Fire Sermon' explores the theme of past alienation.

B: 'Death by Water' reinforces the idea of a spiritual shipwreck.

C: 'What the Thunder Said' includes references to Eastern and Western art.

D: 'What the Thunder Said' proposes sympathy with other human beings as a possible solution to the present predicament.

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The Waste Land: structure

'The Burial of the ________' focuses on the opposition between sterility and fertility.
'A Game of ________' compares the present squalor to the splendour of the past.
'The Fire ________' describes a loveless sexual encounter.
'Death by ________' focuses on the drowned Phoenician sailor Phlebas.
'What the ________ Said' deals with religion.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot: life and works

Put the following sentences related to T.S. Eliot's life and works in the correct order: write numbers from 1 to 4.

________ He described the crisis of Western culture first in his masterpiece The Waste Land, then in the poem The Hollow Men.
________ He wrote his first important work, that is, the collection of poems Prufrock and Other Observations.
________ He went to Lausanne to undergo psychological treatment in a sanatorium.
________ He founded and edited the literary magazine The Criterion.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot: life and works

T.S. Eliot was born in ________ in 1888.
T.S. Eliot was educated at Harvard and at ________.
T.S. Eliot worked as a clerk in ________ Bank.
T.S. Eliot married a ________ ballet dancer.

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The Waste Land: a new concept of history

Eliot's peculiar use of quotations from literary and religious works ________ his concept of tradition and history.
Eliot maintained that '________' was the ability to see the past as a concrete premise for the present.
Eliot considered the poetic culture as a 'living ________' of all the poems written in different periods.
Eliot believed that the historical sense allows for the ________ existence of all the literature of Europe.

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The Waste Land: style

Eliot reproduces the chaos of modern ________ through a style which is fragmentary.
Eliot requires the active participation of the reader by using the technique of ________.
Eliot uses the technique of the objective ________.
Eliot employs the technique of ________, pairing squalid elements with poetic ones.

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