T. S. Eliot

Alec Makki
College Composition 3rd
Mrs. Pritchard
March 16, 2010
Eliot and Cats.
The early writers of the 1900’s were some of the major stepping stones for our literature today. T. S. Eliot was a very talented writer who used many different types of poetry and play writing to capture our attention. Eliot was a graduate from Harvard University who hada literary career in England. His job there would eventually lead him into writing his famous poetry and plays. His writing first started of resembling Christian teachings because of how he was raised he believed this would be the most logical thing to write about. Although, after World War I, he changed his style of writing to show modern revolution. He used very difficult form of allusion to capture his ideas and this became difficult for the readers to sometimes understand his meaning in his writing.
Eliot was born into a New England family who lived in Saint Louis, Missouri. His mother Charlotte was herself an amateur writer who had a liking to Emerson’s poems. The most likely reason Eliot got into writing would most likely be his mother being a poet. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in philosophy he moved to England. There he became a literary editor for a publishing house, to which later he became the director of the house. His writing first resembled that of a Christianwriters work. His poetry aimed to represent the difficulty of modern civilization with a difficult form of poetry. The most common form of writing he used was to illustrate the modern revolution after World War I. He used obscure allusion to bring people to see the new revolution starting. Some of his other poems that do not show modern revolution were, for example, the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. This collection of quirky poems was based on the sociology of cats. Eliot first wrote these poems to his godchildren, to which after were collected and published in 1939. These collections of poems were...