T.S. Eliot Quiz 3/30
What did T.S. Eliot dismiss "The Waste Land" as?
"a piece of rhythmical grumbling"
What did "The Waste Land" (T.S. Eliot) achieve?
It was a crowning achievement of the Modernist literary movement and is still considered one of the finest works ever written
What did "The Waste Land" (T.S. Eliot) represent?
T.S. Eliot's search for something beyond the "waste land" of modern society
What was T.S. Eliot's most celebrated works?
The Waste Land
What did the Modernist movement represent?
a break with literary traditions
What did T.S. Eliot's book Prufrock cause?
a sensation, earning Eliot a lasting place among the finest writers of this century
what does the Greek prefix di- (or dis-) mean?
apart or away
What made T.S. Eliot's work available for the first time?
his acquaintance, Ezra Pound, helped influence a magazine editor to publish Eliot's work, "Prufrock"
What was T.S. Eliot's work in contrast to him outwardly being a model of convention?
it was revolutionary in both form and content
What did T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound create in liturature?
literature that was often fragmented in structure and avoided providing directly stated themes
dramatic monologue
poem or speech in which a character addresses a silent listener, in "Prufrock's" case, at a critical point in the speakers life
What did Modernists do instead of providing answers in their literature?
they left in up to readers to draw their own conclusions about the meaning of a work
what does digress mean
to turn aside from
During T.S. Eliot's time, what were telephones, radios, and automobiles doing?
transforming life at an unprecedented pace in the early decades of the twentieth century
What was the Modernists technique "stream of consciousness"?
where they tried to reproduce the natural tendency of the human mind to jump from association to association
Who did "The Waste Land" (T.S. Eliot) impact?
writers and critics
