T. S Eliot and His The Waste Land
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关键词:sterilityironysymbolismmythdeath
Abstract :T. S. Eliot was one of the finest poets writing in English in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the first poet to vividly depict the mass’s fates and all kinds of persons of modern western cities combined with myths and histories in a wide picture. He made new experiments and innovations in the composition of poetry, and produced a kind of new poetry which enlarged the range and form of poetic expression as a medium of the modern consciousness. As a Nobel prize laureate and certainly the banner-bearer of Modernist Movement. T.S Eliot has suffered some decline in his literary fame in recent decades not only because of his willed juxtaposition of broken images in his poetry but also because of his vehement advocacy of Christianity as a suitable institution for human society.
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thesis is composed of 6 parts. Part 1 briefly introduces the poet T.S. Eliot, his background and his literary views. Part 2 and Part3 mainly talk about Eliot’s literary career (as poetry, a playwright and a critic) and the characteristics of his poetry, including the themes (boredom, life and death, etc.) and techniques (allusion and myth). Part 4 is an analysis of The Waste Land, including the thematic and textual analysis of it. The Waste Land centers on death and resurrection, revealing the connection between sensuality and anxiety, between sin and sensuality. In this poem, owing to some inexplicable insufficiency in human nature, man is liable to the temptations of flesh. Sexual temptations lead to suffering and death, man’s
history is nothing but “birth, and copulation, and death”. As a result, sin, lust, evil and death together form a circle among which there is the mutual cause and effect relation. Therefore, earthly love, even in most intense form, as in that between the lover and the hyacinth girl, with its romantic associations, will fail man in the end. Part 5 probes into Eliot’s poetic view and writing style. Part 6 is the conclusion of the thesis.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Eliot’s Literary Career
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Chapter 3 Characteristics of His Poetry
3.1 Subject Matter
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Chapter 4 An Analysis of The Waste Land
4.1 The Theme of The Waste Land
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Chapter 5 Eliot’s Poetic View and Writing Style
5.1 His View about Poet and Critic
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Chapter 6 Conclusion
Notes
References
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