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nbsp;     Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
         But there is no water (李俊清，2007: 121)
 
     Then there comes the thunder of spring over distant mountains, in which there is "a hint of the vegetation myth, of the approaching rebirth of the parched dead land through the life-giving rain" (Matthiessen, 1959: 38)
 
   Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
         Waited for rain, while the black clouds
         Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
        Then spoke the thunder (李俊清，2007: 123)
 
     Besides being the pioneer of rain, the thunder is also important owing to the reference to the legend of the Thunder coming from the Grihadaranyake-Upanished, an Indian sacred book. The legend tells that Groups of Gods, men and demons all ask the creator to speak, and assuming the voice of thunder, the creator answers and says to each the word "Da" which is interpreted by them as "Datta", "Dayadhvam" and "Damyata" (give, sympathize, control). In the story, the thunder is answering the important riddle of existence. So here, the thunder's voice also appears as the longed-for resolution that will release the rain-the life-bringing force to revitalize The Waste Land. The rain comes, and the message can be well interpreted and understood, the rain comes, and the wasteland is saved since the curse is lifted as the knight has successfully deciphered the meaning of what is shown to him in the Perilous Chapel.　　Here is no water but only rock
   Rock and no water and the sandy road
   …
   There is not even silence in the mountains
   But dry sterile thunder without rain (李俊清，2007: 120-121)
 
    Ⅲ. The Function of the Imagery in The Waste Land
 Poetic image is the essential factor and soul of poetry. Language is the carrier of the poetic image. When the concrete object nouns or noun phrases of language are used in poetry, those sensate nouns or noun phrases become the image words or phrases of poem. Actually, the process of creating a poem is a kind of process in which the poet selects suitable concrete objects to be the poetic images, and constructs the poetic image language so as to express his subjective feelings vividly. Stimulated by the outer world, the poet generates the creation motivation and makes use of the metaphorical thinking mechanism to appropriately select the objective things as the carriers of images, and construct the poetic image language.
 When the poet selects concrete objects to be the poetic imagery, he is conditioned by the national culture. Firstly, , the process of constructing the poetic image is based on the metaphorical thinking. In a kind of national background, by using the imagination, people connect the features of the objects with their feelings, so that the objects become the stabilized implications and symbols. Secondly, a nation has its own history, custom, religion, mythology and legend, which influence people's thought pattern and aesthetic sentiment. T. S. Eliot uses Imagery as a main writing device in the本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。