T.S Eliot

[Sarah15s]

Hi guy
i was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice on 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' by T.S. Eliot, I've got an exam coming up on tuesday and thats the main subject.

Any pointers would be great.

[stlukesguild]

So that we don't cynically assume that you have just joined LitNet seeking out someone to do your homework for you, why don't you post some of your thought's on Eliot's essay... and then you might get a few people more willing to offer some pointers.:wave:

[JBI]

Hi guy
i was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice on 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' by T.S. Eliot, I've got an exam coming up on tuesday and thats the main subject.

Any pointers would be great.

Step one, buy book (or just read it online), step two, read article, step three, write exam.

[Dinkleberry2010]

I am assuming that you have read Eliot's essay. To put it in the old proverbial nutshell, "Tradition And The Individual Talent" is about the relationship between a poet and tradition (tradition in the sense of literary kinship or obligation which the poet inherits from the past.)

[Sarah15s]

Jermac- Thanks for the help.

To the other two replies, I am a university student so I do have the essay and I have annotated it on more than one occasion. I was only wondering if you guys could offer any help as I had already revised for the exam. So I am not just joining the site for help with my homework. I don't even get homework anymore

[blazeofglory]

This forum demands of you to put up your own idea based on what you have read and to yours the rest will add up something possibly different than what you have thought up and in the way this will enrich your knowledge and that is exactly all of us expect of you.

[stlukesguild]

To the other two replies, I am a university student so I do have the essay and I have annotated it on more than one occasion. I was only wondering if you guys could offer any help as I had already revised for the exam. So I am not just joining the site for help with my homework. I don't even get homework anymore

Sarah... as I suggested there are more than a few of us who are suspicious of requests to explain this or that writers, analyze this or that book, etc... from students who are simply too lazy to do their own homework. Such is not unique to LitNet. I am active at an art site where students similarly pop in with their sole posting asking us to identify this or that painting or explain why it is clearly a product of the Baroque era. If such was not your intent, I welcome you to LitNet... but I continue to suggest that when asking for thoughts or analysis of this or that work... unless you have been a long-time member... you will probably get the greatest response if you offer up some of your thoughts as well. Eliot's essay has long been a favorite of mine... one that I have quoted repeatedly in discussion.