T.S. Eliot Objective Correlative

Lit Essay T.S. Eliot. Question 13. Many poems work by leaving out, omitting connections, asking us to make bridges. Discuss the ways in which two or more poems ask for our collaboration to make meaning. T.S. Eliot believed in conveying meaning via the use of the “objective correlative” Conveying meaning via the objective correlative therefore means that the reader must become involved in the poem in the sense that T.S Eliot rellies on …

…and hence no meaning. In trying to invoke emotion, and hence meaning, in the reader T.S Eliot rellies strongly on the reader to be able to identify how each event/image in the poem formulates the final emotion. This “gap filling” is what takes a reader that “one step more” and thus the emotion the experience is experienced with the scenes and conveys the meaning of the poem that the author intended to convey.