This document discusses T.S. Eliot's concept of tradition and the historical sense in poetry. It explains that Eliot believed the poet's work is closely related and interdependent with the past, and that the poetic process involves depersonalization through a chemical reaction-like escape from one's own personality. The document concludes that Eliot viewed a poet's sense of tradition and the impersonality of their poetry as complementary aspects of creative work.

2.  Introduction
 Eliot concept of tradition
 Historical sense
 he close relation and interdependence of the past and
present
The relation of a poet ‘s with to the great work of the
past

3. •Depersonalization
•Chemical reaction
Oxygen +sulpherdioxide
Platinum
=sulphurous acid
•Poetic process is not an expression of personality but as
escape from personality.

4. • The third part he concludes the debate by saying that the poet’s
sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry are
complementary thing