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mplies that humans become feeble in the spiritual civilization.
2.3 "Sexual Passion" System
 If first two systems are considered as describing the outcomes, in that case, the "sexual passion" system is to pursue the reason that leads to “withering” and “death”.
    2.3.1 The Concrete Sexual Passion Images
 
   The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
         Glowed on the marble, where the glass
         Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
         From which a golden Cupidon peeped out
         (Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
         Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
         Reflecting light upon the table as
         The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
         From satin cases poured in rich profusion… (李俊清，2007: 106)
 
 Such gaudy and ostentatious ambience display wealth, but as Kenner comments in The Invisible Poet: “All things deny nature; the fruited vines are carved, the Cupidons golden, the light not the sun, the perfumes synthetic, the candelabra (seven-branched, as for an altar) devoted to no rite, the very color of the fire-light perverted by sodium and copper salts…” (Cox and Hinchliffe, 1986: 177). And all the sensual images here—thick air, smoke, odors, strange perfumes, over-full space, make an overall stifling atmosphere. Eliot shows the spiritual emptiness of the upper class women, with the image of “the lady sitting in a burnished chair”. “Sitting in a burnished chair” is from Shakespeare’s Drama Antony and Cleopatra (2, 2,190): “The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne, / Burn’d on the water.” In contrast to Antony and Cleopatra, the lady sitting in a burnished chair is a neurotic woman and the unresponsive man is neither living nor dead. The following lines “That freshened from the window…Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.” are quoted from Virgil’s The Aeneid, the description of the banquet given by Dido, Queen of Carthage, for her Trojan lover, Aeneas. Dido loves Trojan deeply, but Trojan takes advantage of her in developing himself, and when Trojan leaves Dido, she commits suicide. Eliot uses these images from literary classics to make a point that the destructive passion between Antony and Cleopatra leading to death, and the numbness of the failure of Dido’s love, which is death in itself.
    In the squalid pub-monologue that follows, we see a lower-class counterpart: a poor woman suffers the brutality from her husband, because their marriage is founded only on sexual attraction. There is no true love between Lil and her husband. His husband “has been in the army four years, he wants a good time” (李俊清，2007: 112). But Lil hates to make love with him, “she’s had five already, and nearly died of young George”(李俊清，2007: 113). So she has to take the abortion medicine, which makes her looks antique. She has no choice but to satisfy his vulgar expectation in order to keep their relationship secure, and otherwise she’ll lose him. We can see that 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。