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Have the students discuss what this section implies about how Eliot viewed his work in the context of the history of literature. Tradition has life we contribute to it and are nurtured by it. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” Eliot argued that the true poet, restraining private emotions, almost extinguishing visible personality, immerses himself in a profound continuity of literature he may add to the body of great literature (indeed, he ought to innovate if he had the power, that he may renew the vitality of tradition), but only if he has absorbed great literature. After their brief discussion, students will read aloud within their groups this section from Russell Kirk’s Eliot and His Age (1971): The students will then discuss their initial reactions to the piece in order to prepare them to further explore the poem and address amongst themselves any questions they may have.Ģ. Students will begin the lesson by dividing into small groups and reading the poem in its entirety, once silently, once aloud.

Present how Eliot’s philosophy about reality revealed in the previous lessons is reflected in the Surrealist art movement.ġ.

Argue that Eliot’s viewed ‘reality’ as separate from appearance and made up entirely of our ideas and conceptions of the world around us.

Explain how Eliot places his work on a continuum of the great literary works of history such as Dante’s Inferno and support the idea that the speaker of this poem views himself as a Lazarus-like voice from the dead, speaking to the reader and explain how, through this voice, the speaker describes his reality.

Through the study of Eliot’s philosophy and its connection to the Surrealist movement, students will explore how through his poetry, Eliot attempted to present not the ‘appearance’ of the world but the ‘reality’ of it, consisting of our ideas and preconceptions of our world, and will examine how this presentation is reflected by Prufrock’s view of his life in this poem.Īfter completing this lesson, students should be able to… According to poet and art historian Gaston Criel, the Surrealist art movement was born out of World War One and sought to “express…the true operations of thought,” to access the creativity of the mind’s subconscious by distorting the appearance of the scenes depicted in there thereby juxtaposing the real and the surreal (Criel 133–134). Another view through which we will explore this poem and this concept of reality is that of surrealist art. In this philosophy, ‘appearance’ is simply the world as we see it and ‘reality,’ as Bradley defines it, consists of both our experience and interpretation of the world around us (Skaff 12).

In studying his work, Eliot took on the point of view proposed by Bradley that “reality is dualistic, made up of mind and matter” (Skaff 12). One of Eliot’s largest influences during these years was English philosopher F.H.

In doing so Eliot sought to understand his relationship with reality through these teachings and thereby better describe the world around him and explain the way others did (Skaff 22).

Eliot, William Skaff explains that during the time Eliot spent as a student at Oxford he sought to surround himself with and absorb the knowledge of the great philosophers and poets of his time and of those before him with the ultimate goal of becoming a philosopher himself (O’Clair 460). This movement sought to upset previous poetic traditions and interpretations of society and man, to “make it new,” “make it difficult” and challenge the optimistic and highly structured poetry of the Romantic movement predominant at the time (O’Clair xl–xliii, xxxviii–xl). With its publication Eliot established himself as a key figure in the Modernist movement (O’Clair 460). Alfred Prufrock” was Eliot’s first professionally published poem and is one of his best remembered today.

Eliot was studying at Oxford University and published in 1915, “The Love Song of J.