美国作家T.S.Eliot 英文版

1、,literary contributions themes personal experience writing style social significance influence,writing style 1. eliots poetry was becoming noted for its fresh visual imagery, its flexible tone, and highly expressive rhythm.(p173),2. eliots poetry is difficult to read.(p176) a. for one thing the imag

2、es and symbols seem very much disconnected b. an obvious source of difficult lies in his learned quotations and allusions.,3. eliot piles up a heap of images, visual, auditory, olfactory, and more for the readers to figure out what is being said. take an example of the winter evening(p177),4. dramat

3、ic monologue(p177-178) in the love song of j. alfred prufrock, the first line, let us go then, you and i”, suggest that what follows is a dramatic monologue with an audience. “i” presents his inner self .thus probably he has been talking to himself .,5. his poems are interesting also for its method

4、of presentation.(p179) we do not move in a sequential fashion. apart from the surreal vividness which characterizes certain parts of the poem, there are elliptical(晦涩的，隐晦的)structures , strange juxtapositions, absence of bridges, so that the whole seems broken ; nothing is explained in a logical mann

5、er. this method also used in the waste land .,6. t.s eliot modern experience is chaotic ,irregular, and fragmentary, and it is the poets job to from new whole out of disparate experiences.(p179-180) a. this fusion of disparate elements into an artistic form and order is the very poetic process for t

6、he modern poet. b. his method is in part , to rely on past literatures and cultures which fuse in his mind with his own personal and private agonies into something rich and strange, something universal and impersonal.,for example ,the waste land . the epigraph of the poem is taken from the satyricon

7、 of peronius, the roman satirist of the first century ,in english is “ for i myself saw with my own eyes the sibyl of cumae (in italy) hanging in a cage , and when the boys cried to her ,sibyl, what do you want ? she used to reply, i want to die . ” c. the waste land is a good illustration of his wr

8、iting style .here we see an ideal parataxis which is the stylistic norm of the poems, as paratactic structures usually indicate a sense of discontinuity and unrelatedness.,there are five parts in the poem. “the burial of the dead” 死者的葬礼 “a game of chess”对弈“the fire sermon”火戒”death by water ”水里的死亡and

9、 “what the thunder said”雷霆的话of the waste land ,the change is abrupt and jerky, with no hint of logical order and causal relationship.,influence influence by: 1.the imagist movement 2 .the symbolist movement in literature by arthur symons, an english critic 3. coleridge or matthew arnold,influence on

10、: 1.he was the most successful literary dictator in american literary history , who wielded the most decisive influence over literary development for a long time. 2. postmodernist poems,significance 1.eliots poetry said more about the modern chaos in fifty or sixty lines than all the social critics

11、and their volumes put together 2.the mist of time has been cleared up by pound and willampaterson .eliot has remained probably the best poet of his generation and his century .,summary 1. is not ts eliots work a. the waste land b. the scared wood c. the love song of j.alfred prufrock d. harmonium 2.the american literature in the modern period is divided into two parts by the event of a. the first world war b. the second world war c. the great economic depression d. the expatriate movement,3. ts eliots later poetry took a