My scholarly journal article that I found is James e. Miller, Jr. T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1988-1922. This article showed me how many people out there were doing tons of biograpical works on his life and adding some interpretation to his work too. So this was interesting to me. Eliot quoted this on his own poem, "I'd say that my poetry has abviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England. That I'm sure of...In its sources, in its emotional springs it comes from America." with this quote scholars claim Eliot as an "American" poet. this is something I put to mind when re-reading his poem. Basically they are trying to figure out, (like us) what was on Eliot's mind when he wrote this poem, and I think theie trying to say to, separate his poem from his life. It is just pure and simple poetry my dear! LOL