https://padlet.com/jacopo_maritato/mfppm6nanume Realizzato con una mente curiosa en-us 2018-02-03 17:19:03 UTC 2018-02-03 17:25:36 UTC hello@padlet.com jacopo_maritato https://padlet.com/jacopo_maritato/mfppm6nanume/wish/227773372 The long poem is composed by a series of fragments, thoughts, memories, impressions, feelings, hallucinations, situations.
There seems to be one main character, who takes on multiple personalities: he is a contemporary traveler, sometimes accompanied by other travelers, sometimes alone, he is Tyresias, who experienced blindness and the life of two sexes, he is the knight in search of the Holy Grail. As a consequence the narrator is expressed in the 1st person, he changes from one section to the other, according to the personality he takes on.]]> 2018-02-03 17:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jacopo_maritato/mfppm6nanume/wish/227773372 jacopo_maritato https://padlet.com/jacopo_maritato/mfppm6nanume/wish/227773388 Thomas Eliot was born in 1888 in Missouri (USA) and he has been educated in Harvard. But his cultural background was at first English and then European; in fact he discovered the English Metaphysical poet John Donne and he learned Italian by studying Dante. In 1910 he first went to Europe and studied in Paris at the Sorbonne; later he came back to Harvard and took a degree in philosophy.
When the First World War came out he settled in London where he taught, worked in a bank as a clerk and married a woman who was told to have some mental problems.
In 1925 he became a director for the publishers Faber and Faber, publishing all his writings trough them. In the 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in London in the 1965

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