T.s.Eliot

About T.S.Eliot:-

"Tradition and the individual Talent" is an essay written by poet but he performed duel role as poet and critic. He is compares with sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Coleridge.

The present essay makes Eliot's conception of the relationship between the poet and the literary tradition very influential. T.S.Eliot was a great Critic, poet ,playwright and journalist.

This Essay divided in three part:-

1.concept of Tradition.
2.Theory of Depersonalization.
3.conclusion.

This Essay was Frist publish in 'The Egoist'. The 'Egoist' was a literary Magazine, This essay was later publish in 'The sacred wood' which is Eliot's First book Critism.

1. Concept of Tradition:-

He said that poet wand uniqueness. He said that Tradition and Individuality go together, The historical sense in necessary for any poet.

The Eliot talk about Tradition and Historical sense he says that if the form of Tradition remained only in blind adherence of deal people.

Then it would be lost or such Tradition should be destroyed.

According to Eliot:- In every Tradition also there is a bit of novelty. Tradition a matter of much wider significance.

Historical sense:- The Historical sense forces a man to write not only by the own generation , but with the whole age of English literature. It harmonies Two different things timeless and temporality in poet's work.

No poet, No artist of any atr has his complete meaning alone. He write both ways past and present not only present Tradition following in hs work.

The past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past

2. The Depersonalization:-

Honest Criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry Eliot compares Criticism with science.

There are two gases needed :Oxygen and sulfur dioxide and also they must have the presence of Filament Platinum.

He compares this Platinum with poet. In whole process the Filament of Platinum plays vital role. But yet that process Platinum remains.
The poem created by the poet shows his personality.

Poet's own emotion can not be taken place in the poem.

3.Conclusion:-

It is very hard thing to take interest in poetry to keep a poet aside. We usually read poem with the name and fame of the poem we can not separate from each other.

A poem must know that to reach at the level of impersonality, he Frist has to sacrifices himself and has to surrender himself totally to that work.

So, Eliot criticise Wordsworth's.