Notes of April, 3rd 2012

T.S.Eliot gives his own definition of culture in an essay entitled Notes Towards the Definition of Culture . He considered the culture a mean able to connect people, to make them united in the hole world; the problem he found was that the culture was disintegrating.

His reflection focuses on his cotemporary world. It is a world in which people could not live happily, because it is decaying and individuals have lost all their values also because of the discoveries happened during the Modern Age : C. Darwin discovered that man came from an evolution process, so he is not God's son,  A. Einstein presented his theory about time and space , H. Bergson offered a new concept of time. After all these discoveries men were no longer the same.

After being aware of the culture disintegration, T.S.Eliot decide to convey it in his own works, adopting an appropriate language. For example, he made up his poem The Waste Land by scenes which are not logically linked: the only possible connection between them is by juxtaposition. 

The poet did not feel at ease in a world which had lost all his values, basis and ideals. In his opinion, a positive period was the Medieval Age, because world and society were all united and individuals had some points of reference to which they could refer.

T.S. Eliot was born in America, where he frequented to the most important schools.
His family was an important one and it followed traditions, which conveyed to the poet. So that, T.S.Eliot grew up learning his family tradition and values which made a sort of unity, while the surrounding world, his country was a  desegregated one, composed of many states with many different laws. So, Mr Eliot decided to travel to Europe to look for unity and order.