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Thomas Stearns Eliot otherwise known as T.S.Eliot was born in Missouri on the 26th of September in 1888 to Henry Ware a businessman and Charlotte Stearns Eliot a gifted poetess. Eliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smith Academy in St. Louis. His first poems and prose pieces appeared in the Smith Academy Record in 1905, the year of his graduation. He attended Harvard University, When he left the United States in 1910 he had earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and contributed several poems to the Harvard Advocate. He returned to Harvard after a year in Paris to study philosophy, But returned to Europe in 1914, settling in England and marrying Vivienne Haigh-Wood on June 26, 1915,. While in Europe he settled in London working as a teacher then later working in a bank, There, on September 22, 1914, through a Harvard classmate and fellow poet, he met Ezra Pound, who would exert a great influence over the development of his work and his literary career. Eliza Pound assisted in the publication of his work. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” published in Poetry in 1915," The love song of J Alfred Prufrock" devise on a wide range of symbols and images to represent a chaotic modern world . The first poem in basically in the form of a dramatic monologue where the speaker is talking to his alter ego, Prufrock , a man like his peers feels isolated and incapable of decisive action to vocalize his thoughts. To reflect Prufrock's stream of consciousness , Eliot uses a method he calls "the objective correlative" by which he dramatizes sensations , emotions and feelings through a set of objects , a situation and a chain of events .
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