Eliot – Poetry is an escape from Personality

Said Eliot in Tradition and The Individual Talent: -The artist’s progress is a continuous self-sacrifice, a continuous extinction of the personality. ” And later added that poetry – is not the expression of personality, but an escape from it “9.
This was written around 1919, three years before La Nación Baldía was published. For 1930, -the “personal” has ceased to be irrelevant to art. The critic, in justice towards poetry, will try to glimpse the truth of the poem in two aspects: in itself and in the presence, in him, of his creator.
Perhaps unknowingly, Eliot, who initially postulated the impersonality of the poem, He expressed exactly the opposite in The Waste Land. Like all good poetry, The Waste Land is not functional to words but to images -which words build-and these to ideas -that words, in turn, contain in some way or allow to express-. In
we see that the poet did not attempt a description of what was seen – he did not try to just say – but the reconstruction of an experience: re-shape, through words, a something Poetry, then, that exceeded the “narrowness” of the genre-although it was used as the musician of the notes and the painter of the colors-and addressed the imitative creation: to return to life that which was ever experienced, in the most accurate way possible