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: : I'm doing a final on T.S. ...I have to show how his fiction works say what it is to be an American. : : : : ....please help. : : --Deb : Dear Deb, : As I replied to "little", I am probably too late to be of any help, but just in case I will post you a couple sentences, and if it's not too late, you can e-mail me and I can talk to you more. : As I'm sure you know, T.S. Eliot was an American expatriate in England. When one leaves one's country and lives abroad, it serves as a focus; a lens to look upon other experiences. Although he lived the life of an Englishman, his perspective was otherwise, which was probably why he could see not only wastelands in the City, but treasures under red rocks, where others might see only dust. : Compare TSE to Walt Whitman, "the voice of America", in such poems as Marina and Choruses from "The Rock." : From "The Family Reunion": : "I have spent many years in useless travel; : You have staid in England, yet you seem : Like someone who comes froma very long distance, : Or the distant waterfall in the forest, : Inaccessible, half-heard. : And I hear your voice as in the silence : Between two storms, one hears the moderate usual noises : In the gr and leaves, of life persisting, : Which ordinarily p unnoticed." : I view, perhaps, of his expatriate voice, not to mention another allusion to Whitman (Leaves of Gr). : If you've already turned it in, hope it went well. : Sincerely, : Celeste

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