التعليمية
Volume 14, Numéro 2, Pages 736-747
2024-12-27
The Dialectic Of The Closet: T. S. Eliot’s Stratagem For Evading Detection In His Early Poetry
Authors : Djoudi Djamila . Aziz Hamadi Nabil . Benseddik Belkacem .
Abstract
Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “dialectic of the closet”, this paper aims at bringing to light T. S. Eliot’s deviant sexual desires that are, intricately, woven into the fabric of his early poetry. Eliot’s homoeroticism, expressed in an elegiac mode, is displayed on its purest surface due to the poet’s subtle use of “sexual camouflage”, a tactic which is enacted very carefully through his impersonality theory of poetry. Absorbed as one may have become in queer theory, this article weaves its way down to demonstrate that Eliot’s sexual identity has been profoundly influenced by his failure to lead fulfilling relationships with his female partners in real life. Hence, the wheel of sexual desires seems to have turned from real yet poisoned male-female relations, to imaginative same-sex inclinations.
Keywords
: Dialectic of the closet - deviant sexual desires- elegiac homoeroticism- impersonality theory- sexual camouflage- T. S. Eliot.
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