Assignment Paper No. 7 " TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL TALENT "

Topic:- Tradition and individual talent

Paper No-7 Literary Criticism

Prepared by: KINNARI HALVADIYA

M.A Semester: 2

Batch: 2019-2021

Enrollment No: 2069108420200014

Roll No: 10

Email id: kinuhalvadiya17@gmail.com

Submitted to: Smt. S.B Gardi

Department of English, MKBU       

Introduction :-

    As a critic T.S Eliot was very practical. He call himself " A CLASSICIST LITERATURE "

According to critic must obey the objective standards to analyse any work heat hot criticism as a science iliyat seh criticism become revolutionary at that time I went in century got metaphysical revival because of idiot he first recognized or accepted the uniqueness of metaphysical poets of the 17 century came with new ideas in criticisms world nineteen century elite believed that when the old and new will become readjust it will be end of criticism.

T. S. ELIOT :- 

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. 

Born: 26 September 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: 4 January 1965, Kensington

Full name: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Poems: The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, Preludes, 

He says :-

              " from time to time it is described that some critics shell appear to review the past of our literature and set the poet and the poem in a new order ".

      Elite demands from any critic ability for judgment and powerful liberty of mind to identify and to interpret . Elite plant numerous critical concept that gained white currency and had a broad influence and criticism.

      

      ' Objective, co - Relative ' , 'Dissociation of sensibility ' , ' Unifiction of Sensibility ' , ' They of Depersonalization ' are few of Elliot's theories, which becomes ' Cliche '.

He emphasizes on ' a highly developed sense of fact ' he gave a new direction and new tools of criticism george waston writes about Eliot : 

       " Eliot made english criticism look different but not in a simple sense he offered in a new range of historical possibilities confirmedit in its increasing contempt for historical process and yet I received its notion of period by a handful of brilliant institutions " . 

T . S.Eliot's tradition and individual talent was published in 1919 in THE EGOIST - The times liberty supplement. Later the essay was published in " The scared wood ": Essay on poetry and Criticism 1920/2. This essay is described by DAVIS LODGE as the most celebrated critical essay in the English of 20th century.

🔥 This Essay Divided into three parts :-

1) The first part gives us elite's concept of tradition.

2)  The second part exemplifies his theory of d personalization and poetry.

3) The third part  he concludes that the bat by saying that the poets sense of tradition and third in personality of a poetry and contemporary things. 

The poet's sense of tradition and im personality of a poetry contemporary things... 

1) Concept of literary Tradition :-

      Concept of literary tradition is going to explain us about relationship between poet and poetry with tradition. Sometimes with dark about tradition in English literature to see our thorough that the tradition is absence now, he also believes that English tradition change through to support progress of art. According to Eliot, tradition is not understandable to everyone that how to make more useful and grace full the tradition in work.

THE TERM " TRADITION " ACCORDING TO ELIOT..... 

" Historical timelessness 

       past and present combine "

                     

Eliot a classiest poet...

              " The whole of the literature 

                    of Europe from homer (poet) "

🔥 Novelty :-

He talks about a dynamic and progressive process... 

     " To make something the new

                first no tradition "

Nothing is just darts from the zero. There's a huge role of the past. Not out the elements of the past by poet. 

🔥 Personal Emotions :-

Boyd's I've never expressed their personal emotions, they can't revile a personal emotions of own self. That's why Eliot says the poem..  
 " ESCAPE FROM EMOTIONS "

That survive, he said that successful poetries are impersonal, poetry is independent from poet. And poetry alive by the death of poet. Poetry is the deathless and included into tradition. 

✨ His famous according to this 

" Hamlet and problems "

He talk about a famous place, Shakespeare's Hamlet and his problems. According to him, Hamlet is artistic failure because he doesn't have object correlative. 

In that place, Shakespeare can't make balance between the foot and feelings. In short, there's no relations between outside situations and Hamlet feelings. No relation with his madness, and his mother's guilt. No Clear  events for match.....with express feelings. 

According to Eliott express feelings and events match objective correlative. Objective correlative women's situations, events conditions, popular relations between situation and the expression of feelings. 

" that's why Elliot sees Hamlet is artistic failure work by Shakespeare. "

Ended doing radiations, talent can gain from care full poetry's study. We have those sturdy properly of poetry tradition. 

" Can't be inherited, and if you want it, 

           you must obtain it by great labor " 

Can not to gain the tradition easily, we have to hard work to gain tradition. Boys have a new study and compulsory study that how's the past of boys, but the study of a poet our unique. And for that would have to understand about the mind of a Europe. 

🔥POETIC LENSES :-

Shakespeare have to understand more from PLUTARCH (Greek Biographer). 

Home worse, north named translator translates plutarch's work at the time. And Shakespeare launch from that history and tradition. So the all poets have to learn from past writers. 

     So my write this book, TS. Eliot more inspired " New criticism ". But he here only Eliot himself criticized text of New criticism and analysis called boring and unnecessary. Thus, all critics are Familiar with Eliot. 

    Harold bloom also Criticized Eliot. According to him Eliot romentic Poetry's behavior different from sensibility analysis work. In the metaphysical poets, they also criticized. Some believes that Eliot mind of europe says EURO SENTRICISM. They don't have to forget that Eliot himself supports not European tradition work. 

Example :- 

MAHABHARATA

He also heavily influenced by known western tradition, he says before too long time, I read Indian ancient language on sunscreen in that very interested philosophy, that's why you can clearly see Indian thought and sensibility influenced in my poetry. 

2) Elliot's theory of poetic process and the process of depersonalization... 

He started his essay with... 

" want us to go to decision and a sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet, but upon the poetry "

      Poet adopted the process of depersonalization like.... " continuous, surrounded of himself as he is at the moment too, something which is more valuable, the progress of an artist is a continual self sacrifice a continual extinction of personality " he compares the poets to a catalyst in a chemical reaction in which the. Out of feelings and emotions that are synthesised to create an artistic image that captures and release the same feelings and emotions, while the mind of the poet is necessary for the production emerges by process. Poet  has the not a personality to express, but a particular medium which is only a medium and not a personality in which impressions and experience combine in a peculiar and unexpected ways, impressions and experience which are important for the men, may take note plays in the poetry and those which become important in the poetry may play quite part income and a personality. 

The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases Oxygen and Sulphur dioxide, are mixed In the presence of a filament of Platinum, they Sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the Platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum. It may partly or exclusively operate upon the experience of the man himself; but, the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material.’’

The elements of the experience of the poet are of two kind – emotions and feelings.Eliot explains his theory of depersonalization more elaborately. He elaborates his idea by saying that the emotions and experiences in the art are different than the emotions and experiences of the artist.

3) in the third part, he concludes the debate by saying that the poet's sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry, contemporary things in the last sections of this essay, Elliot sees dead poet's sense of tradition and the impersonality of a poetry complimentary things. 

Eliot writes: ‘‘to divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conduce to a juster estimation of actual poetry, good and bad.’’ Finally he ends his essay with: ‘‘very few know when there is expression of significant emotion, emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet. The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.’’

Conclusion :- 

In short, we can say that Eliot’s idea of ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is similar with New Criticism. Unwittingly, Eliot inspired and informed the movement of New Criticism.  This is somewhat ironic, since he later criticized their excruciatingly detailed analysis of texts. Yet, he does share with them the same focus on the aesthetic and stylistic qualities of poetry, rather than on its ideological content. The New Critics resemble Eliot in their close analysis of particular passages and poems.

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