I have prepare my presentation about " theory of Depersonalization or Impersonality" from the very influential essay in the field of New Criticism by T.S. Eliot.

2. Tradition and Individual talent
-T.S. Eliot
• The essay is divided into
three parts.
1. Concept of tradition
2. Theory of
Depersonalization
3. conclusion

3. Theory of Depersonalization

4. Chemical reaction-
combination of Oxygen and Sulphur dioxide
=Sulphur Trioxide
O2+ So2= SO3
Sulphur Trioxide+ Water= Sulphuric Acid
SO3+H2O=H2SO4
Sulphur dioxide + water = Sulphurous Acid
SO3+ H2O= H2SO4

5. • Platinum is catalyst.( without it process does
not take place)
• But newly formed Sulphuric Acid has no traces
of Platinum.
• So here let’s see a video to understand this
chemical process in more detail.

6. Theory of poetry
emotions+ feelings+ experiences = Poetry
Poet’s mind is catalyst. Without it poetry is not
possible. But poet’s personality is not there in the
poem.
Thus the poet’s mind is receptacle ( container) for
seizing and storing up numberless feelings,
emotions, phrases, images, which remain there
until all the particles, which can unite to form a
new compound, as present together.

7. The more perfect the artist, the more completely
separate in him will be the man who suffers and the
mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind
digest and transmute the passion which are its material.
Example : where is Shakespeare in his plays???

8. • Emotions and experiences in the art are different
than the emotions and the experiences of the
artist.
• ( example: Tess of the d'Urbervilles- Thomas
Hardy )
Impressions and experiences which are important
for the man may take no place in the poetry, and
those became important in poetry may play quite
negligible part in the man, the personality.

9. • The business of the poet is not to find new
emotions, but to use ordinary ones and, in
working them into poetry, to express feelings
which are not in actual emotion at all.

10. Anti Romanticism
• Eliot believes that ‘ emotion recollected in
tranquility’ is an inexact formula. For it is
neither emotion nor recollection.
• It is a concentration, new thing resulting out
from the concentration, of a very great number
of experiences which to the practical and
active person would not seem to be experience
at all; it is a concentration which does not
happen consciously or of deliberation.

11. • “ poetry is not a turning lose of emotion, but
an escape from emotion; it is not the
expression of the personality, but an escape
from personality”. But of course, only those
who have personality and emotions knows
what it means to want to escape from these
things.

12. Limitations of essay
Juvenile effort
Euro centric
Backward looking
Obsessed with order
Elitist
Conservative, orthodox
Anxiety of Influence- Harold Bloom