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How do you keep Eliot's poems, plays, and criticism straight for the exam? Use a revision card: group titles by genre, and they're easier to recall. Poetry first: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land are modernist poems shaped by doubt and fragmentation. Their speakers struggle to make sense of a fractured world. Later, Four Quartets, a sequence of four poems, reflects on time and spiritual meaning. But these titles do more than sort neatly. Eliot's poetry moves toward spiritual meaning from modernist doubt, though not in a simple, completed journey. Drama: Murder in the Cathedral, a verse play. Criticism: Tradition and the Individual Talent, an influential essay on literary tradition and the poet's relation to it. So what's the exam map? Prufrock and The Waste Land in poetry, Four Quartets later, Murder in the Cathedral in drama, and Tradition and the Individual Talent in criticism.