t.s. eliot\'s portrayal of anti-semitism

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His portrayal of anti-Semitism

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This power point presentation provides key point to T.S. Eliot poetry which contains hints of anti-Semitic.

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Page 1: T.S. Eliot\'s Portrayal of Anti-Semitism

His portrayal of anti-Semitism

Page 2: T.S. Eliot\'s Portrayal of Anti-Semitism

“Gerontion”“Burbank With a Baedeker: Bleistein with a

Cigar” “Dirge”

“A Cooking Egg”“The Wasteland”

Page 3: T.S. Eliot\'s Portrayal of Anti-Semitism

Describing a landlord with his vivid imagination

“My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner,”

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Blaming the Jews for not allowing him to grow and prosper such as that of an egg that becomes cooked.

“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping / From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green”

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The speaker in this poem places blame on the Jews for the destruction of Venice.

“The rats are underneath the piles / the Jew is underneath the lot”

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This was one of Eliot’s poems that was excised before being publicized.

Dirge contained one of the most prolific scenes found in all of Eliot's Poems

“Under the flatfish and the squids.Graves’ Disease in a dead Jew’s eyes!”

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Depiction of a horrible death by sea

“He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew”

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These statements from Eliot explains the importance of his use of words throughout his work

…”it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England, and it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d stayed in America. It’s a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America.”

“What is still more important is unity of religious background, and reasons of race...”

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