Thinking Activity On T.S.Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965), "one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. born in st.Louis, Missouri, in the United states, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. he became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport.
Q-1) HOW Would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?
ANS:- Yes, I'm agree with the Eliot's views. He point out the tradition as that the tradition is matter of much wider significance. it cannot be inherited, you must obtained it by great labour. Talent has no connections with the inhabitants, we have to work hard to catch the talent.
Being a part of tradition we have to do great labour, it involves historical sense which involves appreciation not only of the Pastness of past but also it's presence.
Q-2) What do you understand by Historical sense?
ANS:-
- " The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the Pastness of the past, but of its presence"
- This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
- Eliot concept of historical sense is a dynamic one and not static, and is forever in a state of flux. the historical sense enables a writer to write not only his own generation in mind, but from past to present with continuity of tradition. historical sense a sense of timeless and temporal, for example, in indian context ram and krishna alive in our life.
Q-3) What is the relationship between "tradition" and "the individual talent," according to the poet T.S Eliot ?
ANS:-
For Eliot tradition and individual talent an existing does not cut itself from the tradition , we have to work in an interdisciplinary kind of a manner . In answer of that how individual talent associated with tradition he is says that ....... Individual talent does not cut itself away from the tradition for eliot Tradition is already existing monument and individual talent can only marginally and a bir , extend it a bit . Tradition and individual talent they both go together . It can be separate .
Q-4) Explain: "some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British museum".
ANS:- Eliot's concept about of tradition and individual talent, here we can see that how Eliot associate with tradition. he gave general dictionary meaning of tradition. there is conflict between traditional and Morden. Morden automatically becomes good and traditional automatically becomes not so good. it's compare with this morden writer to find in this present work.
Q-5) Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
ANS:- " Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry" in this line he tried to explain that the honest criticism and the appreciation by any critic is of the work art and not of the writer. if we like any work of art it is the quality of that work we like, not the poet's personality. the problems arise from that misunderstanding and after that what happens is that the ideal image that we have conceived in our mind is broken when we come to know about the personal life of that poet.
Q-6) How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of Depersonalization ? you can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, platinum.
ANS:- The theory of depersonalization of honest criticism and sensitive appreciations directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. theory of depersonalization is chemical process.
Q-7) Explain:" poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
ANS:- in above given quote Eliot again talk about depersonalization . he says that whenever poet create something their own self should not reflect in their creative work. poet should learn to be aloof or detach when they create something.Eliot says poetry is impersonal it is not for showing one's own emotion or self it is about escape from that emotions and self. poet's own self should not reflect in their own poetry or work.
Q-8) Write two points on which one can write critique on " T.S. Eliot as a critic'.
ANS:-
- Eliot's view of escape from emotion and escape from personality.
- The idea of depersonalization that the man who suffers and the mind which creates are different.
