Modernist Poet T.S. Eliot

Fact, Question, Response

Use this organizer to keep track of your thoughts as you listen to the audio story. In the "Fact" column, record interesting or useful factual information you learn about the topic. In the "Question" column, write questions that occur to you as you listen. Finally, in the "Response" column, make a list of responses to the story, either as they occur to you or in relation to one of the facts or questions you’ve listed.

Language Identification Organizer

Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it.

• the most famous phrase in modern literature
• what we would describe in literary terms as high modernism
• the arts were beginning to reflect the sense of fracture
• musical structures have always been very significant in his poetry
• its raunchiness, of course, and also in all its splendor
• the even greater fracture of the ongoing 20th century
• the notion of rebirth and the various images
• an overturning of that idea, of focusing on death
• stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool
• you who turn the wheel and look to windward