Poetry: Modernism and religion aside the "intellectualism" that is often accused (often as a way of contrasting his figure to his contemporaries Dylan Thomas and WH Auden, purely lyric poets), TS Eliot's poetry has three fundamental aspects, facets apparently contradictory, but the great artist harmonized wisely. The first, a very humorous vein sui generis. The author was very fond of the trifle satirical and ironic joke (visible as the first book he published in 1917, Prufrock and other observations, or in The Book of skilled cats (1939) which is based on the famous comedy musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Weber). Connie Milstein The second, taken from literary modernism or experimentalism, not in vain, with Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, was the great representative of English modernism (see modernism Imperial), which has nothing to do with our "Modernism": The wasteland.His third aspect is, without doubt, the mative and religious. Transcendent and penitential tone acquires a huge presence throughout his work, and the gathering of disparate elements (tradition and novelty, jokes and really, the sacred and the profane, we might say or, as we shall see , faith and nihilism) emanate, in short, for some, most of the twentieth century poetry, "an intense attraction to beauty with an equally intense fascination by the ugliness, which contrasts with her and just destroying it" said one of his essays. L pez Garc a Damaso trace very well a synthesis of these striking contrasts in his introduction to Inventions of the March hare, a collection of Eliot's early poems, published after he died. noted, Eliot, late maturity, became unexpected and dramatically to Anglicanism, that explains the importance of religious feeling in his life, which spontaneously shifted to his poetry.This transfer is reflected, first, through the introduction, here and there, innumerable quotations from the Bible, works of saints, of Dante, as well as eastern sacred texts. They are also frequent references to events or places with strong religious significance, as in many judged his masterpiece, Four Quartets (1943). But Eliot went further. In a turbulent time, cynical and disbelieving as he lived, also marked by two world wars, did not refrain from directly exposing a bunch of poems "religious," almost in imitation of the medieval clergy: Journey of the Magi (1927) Ash Wednesday (1930, dedicated to the Virgin Mary), the choirs of Stone (1934, for construction of new temples, etc.). But the devout fervor imbued him to the core artist in the spirit, we say, cynical and hollow of his century, which often seems to be only apparent.Like the Spanish Miguel de Unamuno, Eliot reveals a mystical mood at least hesitant, in which faith has been severely tempered or cooled, if not replaced, by the mation sound disillusioned, always returns to a theme thoroughly metaphysical : in the case of Eliot, the incomprehensible passage of time (Four Quartets). Indeed, we note the start of one of the poems purely "religious" and cited, Ash Wednesday: Because I have no hope of ever again because I have no hope because I have no hope of ending very canonically Section: Pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death. These lines foreshadow not known whether faith or despair, while the poetic effect of contrasts like this, coupled with the bold formal resources employees, far from restricting the lyrical intensity, amplifies considerably.His original compositions provide resonance images, deep and unexpected spiritual overtones, a wealth and variety of rare records in the poetry of the past century, if obvious to one of his great contemporary, the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa.