Thursday 14 December 2017

T.S Eliot : Tradition and Individual talent

1) How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of tradition? Do you agree with it?

Yes I am agree  with his concept of tradition. He explain that the traditions has sense of traditional and he also view it with Modern. Tradition is a living monument. He also has actually means to a positive sense.
Eliot also speaking there is also a tension between somebody becomes traditional and somebody becomes modern. Modern means automatically good and tradisional means automatically not so good.

2) What do you understand by historical sense?

The historical sense involves a perception, not only  of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.

A historical sense is not just sense of history as a past but it is also an understanding of the present, the present is the unfolding of the past, As a writer one can must have the historical sense.

3) What is the relationship between "Tradition" and "Individual Talent" according to the poet T.S.Eliot?

 According to T.S.Eliot  Individual talent can't cut from tradition. They both connected with each other. Poet or writer must have knowledge of all the great writers of their tradition. It is also not inherited you must obtain it by grate labour.     


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".

  This quote means, one who absorbs the knowledge becomes a great creative writer. Some may read a lot but are not able to create anything, while some just by using the power of their observation may become a great writer.


5) "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. E.g now a days people Criticise Tajmahal as a  creation of cruel ruler in other words, we can not judge it in terms of history or personality of maker, but we must see its art of creation.

6t) 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.

Theory of depersonalisation by T.S.Eliot lights on the above structure. As we can say that during the process of writing poetry,poet's mind gets higher impact but as a conclusion it disappears.

7) Explain. "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality"

 In this quote Eliot does not deny personality or emotion to the poet only, he must depersonalize his emotions there should be an extinction of his personality. This impersonality can be achieved  only when poet surrenders himself completely to the work that is to be done.

8) Write two points on which one can write critique on T.S.Eliot as a critic;


  A) "Tradition is a matter of much wider significance, it can't be inherited and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour".

 B) "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry".

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