1) Biography से direct MCQ-able facts (Life-based)
- पूरा नाम: T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Born: 26 Sept 1888, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Education: Harvard, Sorbonne, Merton College (Oxford) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Doctoral work: F. H. Bradley (dissertation: Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Met Ezra Pound: 1914 (England settle करने में मदद) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Marriage 1: Vivien Haigh-Wood (June 1915) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- British citizen + Anglican church: 1927 kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Nobel Prize (Literature): 1948 (साथ में OM Order of Merit) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Marriage 2: Valerie Fletcher (1957) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Death: 4 Jan 1965, London (Kensington) kj T S Eliot upgraded
2) “Work → Author” और “Author → Work” के लिए मास्टर Works-list (with high-yield details)
Poetry (बहुत पूछे जाने वाले)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (poem appeared 1915)
- dramatic interior monologue, stream of consciousness, epigraph: Dante’s Inferno kj T S Eliot upgraded
- The Waste Land (1922)
- 434 lines, free verse
- published: The Criterion (UK) + The Dial (US)
- 5 sections: The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; The Fire Sermon; Death by Water; What the Thunder Said
- epigraph: Petronius (The Satyricon)
- dedicated to Ezra Pound: “il miglior fabbro” (the better craftsman) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- The Hollow Men (1925)
- 2 epigraphs: Conrad (Heart of Darkness) + “A penny for the old Guy” (Guy Fawkes day song) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Ash-Wednesday (1930)
- Anglicism conversion (1927) के बाद की poem, Lent के Ash Wednesday से title kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Four Quartets (1935–42)
- 4 parts: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding
- Bhagwad Gita references का mention kj T S Eliot upgraded
Drama (poetic drama revive वाला area)
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- The Family Reunion (1939) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Comedies: The Cocktail Party (1950), The Confidential Clerk (1954), The Elder Statesman (1959) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Sweeney Agonistes (1932), “Aristophanic fragment” kj T S Eliot upgraded
Criticism/Prose (Terms यहीं से पूछते हैं)
- The Sacred Wood (1920):
- Tradition and the Individual Talent (impersonality of poetry)
- Hamlet and his Problem(s): Objective Correlative kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Essay “The Metaphysical Poets” (1921): Dissociation of Sensibility kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Culture-society trajectory: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933), After Strange Gods (1934), The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Notes towards the Definition of Culture (1948) kj T S Eliot upgraded
3) Literary Terms जो सीधे exam में घुसते हैं
- Objective Correlative: “objects/situation/chain of events” जो emotion का formula बने; Eliot ने Hamlet को इसी context में “artistic failure” कहा kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Dissociation of Sensibility: essay The Metaphysical Poets (1921) में coined phrase, metaphysical poets के बाद thought-feeling fusion टूट गया वाली idea kj T S Eliot upgraded
4) Quote/Line based high-probability lines (Line → Work/Author)
इनमें से exam में अक्सर line देके पूछते हैं “किस work में है?”
- “April is the cruellest month…” → The Waste Land kj T S Eliot upgraded
- “This is the way the world ends… Not with a bang but a whimper” → The Hollow Men kj T S Eliot upgraded
- “In my beginning is my end…” → East Coker (Four Quartets part) kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Prufrock lines: “Do I dare disturb the universe”, “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” → Prufrock kj T S Eliot upgraded
5) “Sections/Structure” वाले trap points (Work के अंदर का map)
- The Waste Land के 5 section names याद रखना super जरूरी है kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Four Quartets के 4 part names भी अक्सर MCQ बनते हैं kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Preludes = 4 parts (irregular) और collection: Prufrock and Other Observations kj T S Eliot upgraded
6) “Epigraph/Source” वाले direct MCQs (बहुत popular)
- Prufrock epigraph: Dante’s Inferno kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Portrait of a Lady epigraph: Marlowe’s Jew of Malta kj T S Eliot upgraded
- Gerontion epigraph: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure kj T S Eliot upgraded
- The Hollow Men epigraphs: Conrad + Guy Fawkes song line kj T S Eliot upgraded
- The Waste Land epigraph: Petronius (Satyricon)