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How does /lit/ feel that war impacted T.S. Eliot's work?

Whilst we're at it, how about how war impacted his good friend and benefactor Ezra Pound and his work?

>> No.3140882

The war made Eliot do his own homework.

>> No.3140907
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>>3140882

That it did. It also taught him to write his own material for the sake of writing, to write for the sake of pure interest in a subject and simply to ask others what their opinions were on the matter.

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>> No.3141010

>>3140882
I hate people like you, is there no way to discuss literature without it being someone looking for homework answers?

>> No.3141061

> how war impacted Ezra Pound

You're kidding, right?

>> No.3141065

>>3140848

WWII made Eliot abandon his inclination towards fascism.

WWII made Pound insane.

>> No.3141066

>>3141010

> has homework
> is butt hurt

>> No.3141075

It made his bourgeois existence slightly less comfortable since he had to, god forbid, ration his tea biscuits.

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>>3141066
Bump because no, asshole.

>> No.3141237

>>3141075
I've forgotten who it was, Elizabeth Bishop maybe, but in her Paris Review interview she mentioned being really weirded out that Eliot didn't have any pictures of his wife around the house, just pictures of himself and framed needlepoints of his poems.

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Nothing, they weren't aware of the concept of war. Especially Pound.

>> No.3141256

>>3141237
I lol'ed. What a modest person he was

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>>3141237

He was a creepy guy.

>>3141065

Pound did go insane but happened to write what I feel was his best work. As the article I'm writing is based around their modernist work between 1914-1939 it's primarily the First World War and it's impact I'll be concentrating on.

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>>3141240

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I DISLIKE TS ELIOT, AND HIS POEMS.

I INFER THAT HIS CATHOLICISM HINDERED HIS TALENT TO SOME DEGREE.

HE BORES ME.