T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is an American-born poet, publisher, playwright, and critic. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 at the age of 25. He is most known for his poem The Waste Land (1922), and also The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and is considered one of the best poets of the English language. He often mocked the behavior and snobbiness of the upper-class, which is present in his poem Aunt Helen.

This poem has no specific form, meter, or rhyme scheme, which hints at the emptiness of Aunt Helen’s life. The tone is formal and detached, showing the narrator’s indifference towards his aunt. Aunt Helen was very self-important, but this poem shows the lack of importance she had in anyone else’s life.