In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his…
the mind of the poet corresponds to the catalytic platinum: it enables the artistic combination without becoming the resulting poem’s personal content. The language, soul…
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In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to
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the mind of the poet corresponds to the catalytic platinum: it enables the artistic combination without becoming the resulting poem’s personal content. The language, soul and life of the poet are not the explicit equivalent in Eliot’s analogy.
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