metropolitan spirit in eliot's poems

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English

 

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Mary M

 

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September 12, 2014

 

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The Modernist view of the city lean towards a pessimistic sense of urban failure, and a feeling of mixed fascination and revulsion is discernible in Eliot's poems. However, it must be remembered that this interpretation of the city is "written by, and for, a metropolitan intelligentsia," who shared an ambivalence towards city life, and who were using the city in a literary experiment designed to find new forms of expression for the modern age...
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Inherent in their notion of the city is a "view of life as irretrievably isolated." This alienation of the conscious individual among the unthinking masses is seen as responsible for the sordid loneliness of city life, as is the breakdown of family relationships, religion and morality. Eliot suggests that humans find it hard to communicate; they are separated by misunderstanding or selfishness...
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