T.S. Eliot was born in the USA but at the the age of 25 went to live in London, and at 35 became a British citizen. He worked as a bank clerk and later became an editor for the publishing house Faber. During World War II, he served as an air-raid warden. His influence on the next generations of English poets was enormous. One of his most well known poems is "The Waste land" written in 1922, in which he complains about the lack of meaning of contemporary city life. In one of his essays about poetry "The music of poetry" 1942, he wrote: "It is not necessary in order to enjoy the poem, to know what the dream means; but human beings have an unshakeable belief that dreams mean something..."
You´ll find the poem in the following link
Read it, think of the title, sub-titles, images, characters, date in which it was written....
Also, please remember to write your post about "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D.H. Lawrence. Deadline Sunday 8.
Claudia
