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s the killer of life, it can make the plants not to sprout and bloom. “The Corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? / Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?” (李俊清，2007: 109).
    In section Ⅱ “A Game of Chess”, the woman, sitting in her “enclosed” room with a “coffered ceiling,” is reminiscent of a corpse in a coffin (李俊清，2007: 109).
    In the end of section Ⅲ “The fire sermon”:
 
         To Carthage then I came
 
         Burning burning burning burning
         O Lord Thou pluckest me out
         O Lord Thou pluckest
 
      Burning (李俊清，2007: 119)
 
 The “fire” here is an abstract “death” image which includes two meanings: “fire of Carthage” and “fire of hell”. Carthage was a state of North Africa in ancient time, which was the dominant power in the western half of the Mediterranean. “fire of Carthage” relates with the War between Carthage and Rome. In the third Punic War, Roman campaign invaded the capital Carthage. Thousands of Carthaginians suffered a horrible death, and the capital Carthage was burned almost totally to the ground. Roman campaign also sprinkled salt over the ground to cause the total destruction of the land. The other meaning of “fire of hell” is the everlasting punishment which the dead suffered for they lost their faith on God. The “fire” image presents Eliot’s view that all the people in the waste land are in the agony of “Death”.
 In section Ⅳ “Death by Water”, the death of “Phoenician sailor Philebas” is the symbol of Phoenicia’s decline. Phoenicia was once a wealthy empire on the east shores of Mediterranean, but Phoenician’ indulging in luxury made the Phoenicia’ decay. Eliot uses the Philebas’s death to warn the people in the waste land that if they don’t come to themselves, they will drown into the ocean of material life. 　　

  The first part of section Ⅴ “What the Sunder Said” just mentions “death”:
 
   After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
         After the frosty silence in the gardens
         After the agony in stony places
         The shouting and the crying
         Prison and palace and reverberation
         Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
         He who was living is now dead
         We who were living are now dying (李俊清，2007: 120)
 
 With the torches, Rome soldiers arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus was first interrogated and beaten at the palace of the high priest. In the garden in Golgotha, he suffered the agony, and then died on the cross. His death caused upheavals: "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent" (Matthew, 27: 51). The quotation of “Jesus’ death” from the Bible here i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。