My analysis of Ts Eliot's"The Tradition and Individual Talent"

7 ডিসেম্বর 2012, 12:16 পূর্বাহ্ন-এ

Largely speaking the whole essay is a rebellion against tradition,a rebellion against traditional concept of tradition as well as individuality.T­raditionally we think tradition is only the past and whatever is individual must be different from it.But Eliot challenges this view.The traditional view has made tradition a dead thing and individuality an impossibility.B­ut Eliot tells that to be an absolutely new thing is not at all individuality cause no artist no poet has the artistic entity without the presence of the past writers.Past is not dead but it's living by the current of art and to be conscious about present you have to realize the presentness of the past.The present poet's most individual lines are those in which the presence of their ancestors are most noticeable.Thus ­ Eliot relates the past with the present and makes tradition not a matter of only past but of present.He also shows individuality not distant from the tradition rather shows that they are deeply connected.All his endeavor was to show that art especially poetry is a living entity and the poet is a medium or a catalyst.Certai­nly the emotions and feelings of a poet may be reflected in certain parts of a poem but the intensity of the poem is sth different from the poet's personal feelings.It has its own intensity and own emotion.Not the poet but the poetry that contains the flow of art from past to present.He says that for a true poet poetry is a way of depersonalizati­on, a surrendering of ego.It is an escapism of a man who has real feelings and emotions.