CT253 Lecture Notes - T. S. Eliot, Cubism, World War I
Document Summary
Hurry up please it"s time: shows up lots in poem. Eliot"s idea that our culture is fragmented we jump from thing to thing and no solid core where we can integrate and organize our lives. Memory and desire: trying to do to you as a reader- trying to stir in you, echoes of things and a desire to figure out what they are. Poem opens with speaking about mixing memory and desire. Address to us, we have dull roots and spring rain . Isms : 1880- 1920"s poem is published in 1922. Era of modernity (when modernity arrives historically- end of 20th century) industrial revolution, technology, urbanization, workers movement, emancipation of jews as citizens of countries, emcipation of women, All kinds of amazing things happening- but couple other thigns happening like wwi. Wwi- when it hits, it"s devastating, signal that something is not going quite right with european civilization.
