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ELIOT⇨His poetic mission is to create a new symbolic system , based upon both significant fragments of the old and a fusion between western traditions with those of other cultures

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a MODERNIST POET

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Why did he choose Modernism?
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He justified his modernism as follows:

MODERN CIVILIZATION is characterized by COMPLEXITY→ What is the origin of that COMPLEXITY? 

It is due to the fragmentation of the western cultural, mythological and religious tradition, caused by the process of 

industrialization,

mass production 

and consumerism

• Modern man is alienated (he's empty morally and spiritually)
• There is no longer a shared code of values

The poet must represent that complexity in language, as well.

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Such representation leads to DIFFICULT POETRY

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The poet must become " MORE ALLUSIVE", " MORE INDIRECT" to express that complexity
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Unfortunately for the ordinary reader that means a kind of poetry characterized by OBSCURITY

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For discussion

• systems of control such as the Internet, the social networks (privacy is invaded)
• telephone and video surveillance
• digital store and availability of personal information
• state of permanent war
• demonisation of those perceived as other or foreign to the consensus culture
• government and big business control of mass media
• fake news
• increase in the use of Doublethink (humanitarian war, flexible labour, collateral damage)
• privatisation of public space
• soft totalitarianism of market forces
• over-organization
• reduction of problems to questions of statistics
• limitations on public assembly
• communication itself has been elevated to the level of an absolute value, irrespective of what is actually communicated
• language and thought areas are alterated by mass media slogans
• they are let in people's minds like Orwell's doublethink

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Connection with Orwell's themes

• the danger of propaganda
• the useless of any revolution by the masses
• the danger of the personality cult
• easy manipulation of the masses
• control of the language as a political instrument

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