The most influential poet, dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in contemporary western countries. 1888 was born in Missouri, USA on September 26th. His grandfather was the founder of Washington University, his father was a wealthy businessman, and his mother came from a famous New England family. Eliot's talent, diligence and love of poetry are deeply influenced by his mother. He spent his childhood in such an educated family. He studied at Harvard University, Paris University and Oxford University, specializing in philosophy. He has a wide range of interests. Besides philosophy, he also studied French, German, Latin, Greek, medieval history, comparative literature, eastern philosophy and religion. He devoted himself to studying Bradley, and his doctoral thesis was The Purpose of Experience and Knowledge: Bradley's Philosophy. Bradley's philosophy had a profound influence on Eliot's poetry creation. 19 14 Eliot met the famous pound, and with his influence and help, he began to devote himself to poetry creation. Eliot worked as a middle school teacher and bank clerk, and entered Fabian and Gowell Publishing House (later became Fabian and Fabian Publishing House) in 1925. 1927 became a British citizen, joined the Anglican Church, 1948 won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and 10 died in London on October 4th. Eliot once claimed that he was an Anglican in religion, a royalist in politics and a classicist in literature. In his poetry creation, he was deeply influenced by jacobin's metaphysical poets, French symbolist poets and playwrights. Eliot's poems are few in number, but in the modern literary world, the poetry circle has indisputably become a milestone and created a generation of poetic style. His poetry "has a strict sense of responsibility and self-discipline of style, abandons all lyrical old tunes and focuses entirely on substantive things, which are severe, tenacious and simple, but from time to time shine with the light from the eternal space of miracles and revelations."

The period from the publication of Pruefer Locke's Love Song in 19 15 to the publication of Waste Land in 1922 is the first stage of his creation. Eliot saw that the western world is full of crisis and corruption, while people living in western society are just walking dead with body and soul. Pruefer Locke's Love Song, Little Old Man and other works also reflect the situation of intellectuals before and after the First World War. They feel that the western world is dying and modern civilization is drying up, but they don't want to fall into filth and evil, and they have no choice but to look on coldly. Early works such as Love Song of Locke, Portrait of a Lady, Weeping Girl and Girl Helen are included in Locke and Others.

The hollow man published from 1922 to 1925 is the second stage of Eliot's creation. The Waste Land is the most outstanding poem in the 20th century, which reflects the disillusionment and despair of a whole generation in the post-war western world, as well as the decline of former civilization and traditional values. Its achievement is to capture the wasteland-like "spirit of the times" of modern society in chaos and recession. Poets use a lot of allusions and myths and legends, sometimes realistic and sometimes deified, and all kinds of images are intertwined to form a mysterious and complete picture, which is symbolic. The description of everything in "The Hollow Man" is meaningless, and people in the wasteland have become hollow people. This poem represents the lifeless center of the poet's spiritual journey.

From Grey Wednesday (1930) to Quartet (1942), it is the third stage of the poet's creation. "Grey Wednesday" describes the hardships and ideological struggles on the road to conversion to religion. Other religious works include Journey to the Three Saints (1927) and Song of Simon (1928). These four quartets are the pinnacle of the poet's life. The whole poem is divided into four parts, all of which are profound reflections on the themes of time, history and conversion, which fully embodies the poet's interest in the musical beauty of his works. Another result of the poet's conversion to religion was the creation of several poetic dramas: The Rock (1934), The Murder of the Cathedral (1935), Family Reunion (1939) and Cocktail Party (1950). The main theme is to pursue spiritual peace in a world composed of nature and supernatural. The poet believes that religion can revive the disintegrated western society, and people can find spiritual sustenance in the mysterious world.

Eliot is a famous literary critic. From 1922 to 1939, he worked as an editor in magazines such as Egoist, Times Literature Magazine and Standard, and became an authoritative critic similar to matthew arnold in19th century. He is knowledgeable, objective and profound in comparative analysis and good at quoting classics, which makes his judgment and evaluation more powerful. The main collections of essays are Holy Forest (1920), Selected Papers (1932), The Role of Poetry and Criticism (1933), On Poetry and Poets (1957) and so on. Eliot is a poet who consciously practices. He has his own literary theory, and his poems are the concrete embodiment of his poetic theory. He is good at using inner monologues to write conscious and subconscious thoughts into poems. Perceptual abstract ideas, vivid images to visualize them. The use of allusions is another major feature of his poems, which not only implicitly implies the contrast between ancient and modern times, but also makes people think deeply, and at the same time increases the capacity of his works. Eliot's works are difficult to understand, sometimes even obscure. On this point, the poet has explained that our civilization is complex and diverse, and the poet must express his meaning implicitly and indirectly. When the poet's obscure and skillful writing style is understood, it will have a far-reaching impact.