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In ?Tradition and the Individual Talent? T.S. Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry.

In ?Tradition and the Individual Talent? T.S. Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to

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    The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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