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Vivienne in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot

Centering around with the marriage in 1915, in the poems that were written before the year we can find characters who are timid and indecisive. It is because Eliot grew up in the puritan family and so he controlled his passions in everything. In the poems that were written after the marriage we can find Eliot's negative views about women. It is because Eliot was influenced on his father and daughters thinking that “Sex and sin were the same thing” (Matthews 22) and on Vivienne's having a chronic nervous disease, a headache, and stomach cramps and on Vivienne's having been involved with not her husband but other men. In conclusion, Eliot transformed all the situations caused from Eliot's unhappy marriage with Vivienne into the materials for the poems. Especially we can find the negative views about women in his poetry written after the marriage.