Abstract
A closer look follows at the verse Eliot wrote before his formal conversion. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) neither require nor particularly gain from “squeezing and squeezing” their words; they are, however, important to the attempt to understand the specifically Christian character of Eliot’s post-conversion poems. Indeed, these poems reveal interests, desires, and themes developed, “purified” and fulfilled in the works from 1927 to 1954. Viewed from “the end,” especially Four Quartets (1943), “Prufrock” and The Waste Land take on new meaning, in general and in particulars, as they alert us to the necessity of attending to speaking voices and tones.KeywordsIndividual TalentWaste LandCritical VoiceWestern AsceticismCanterbury TaleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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