Intra-Poetic Relationship: T. S. Eliot's Dialogue with Tradition
If it is to be believed that no art exists in a vacuum andthat it is in response to the preceding works of art, then the poetryof T. S. Eliot would prove more befitting, engaging and intriguingfor the readers because of its relational approach and itsconnection with tradition. What Bakhtin proposed...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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Dharmaram College
2017
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Journal of Dharma
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B Tradition B IntraPoetic Relationship B Individual Talent B Harold Bloom B T. S. Eliot |
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| Summary: | If it is to be believed that no art exists in a vacuum andthat it is in response to the preceding works of art, then the poetryof T. S. Eliot would prove more befitting, engaging and intriguingfor the readers because of its relational approach and itsconnection with tradition. What Bakhtin proposed in his theory ofdialogism was something that Eliot had already dealt with in hispoetics. His awareness of the past, his consciousness of his placein time and his realization of not being able to get on without aliterary tradition, compelled him to leave Harvard in search of arich literary past, which could offer him the 'Whole'. His sojournin Paris and London are suggestive of his aim to establishdialogues with the various literary traditions, right from French,English to Indic. His dialogues with his immediate predecessorscan perhaps best be joined within the frame work of Tradition andthe Individual Talent. In this paper, I demonstrate the ways inwhich Eliot endeavoured to come close to his precursors duringhis visit to Paris and London, partly for assimilation and partlyfor rejection. I will also probe into his historical sense to bring tothe fore his intra-poetic relationships, particularly with theprominent Victorian poet, Tennyson and the way these influenceswere integral to his development as poet, critic and artist. Hischanging responses to his precursor made him a strong (inBloomian sense) and major 'Twentieth Century English Poet'. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
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