T. S. Eliot The Waste Land(学习资料)

1、T. S. Eliot& The Waste Land 2009 PresentationLoad DATETeamPresenter3PRODUCTIONCREATED WITHCreative GroupAbout authorThe authors life experienceNotable worksWriting styleAnalysis of The Waste LandContents:Five partsCharacteristicsConclusionAbout The AuthorBorn26 September 1888St. Louis, MissouriDied4

2、 January 1965(1965-01-04) (aged76)London, EnglandOccupationPoet, dramatist, literary critic, and editorCitizenshipAmerican by birth; British from 1927EducationA.B. in philosophyAlma materHarvard University, Merton College, OxfordLiterary movementModernism Notable award(s)Nobel Prize for Literature (

3、1948), Order Of Merit (1948)Notable work(s)Poetry: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock(1915)The Waste Land(1922)Ash Wednesday(1930)Plays: Sweeney Agonistes (1926)The Confidential Clerk (1953)The Rock (1934)Nonfiction:Homage to John Dryden (1924)The Three Voices of Poetry (1954)Writing style Eliots p

4、oetry was becoming noted for its fresh visual imagery, its flexible tone, and highly expressive rhythm.2. Eliots poetry is difficult to read.For one thing the images and symbols seem very much disconnected.An obvious source of difficult lies in his learned quotations and allusions.3. Eliot piles up

5、a heap of images, visual, auditory, olfactory, and more for the readers to figure out what is being said. Taken an example of The Winter Evening.4.Dramatic monologue In the love song of J.Alfred Prufrock,the first line,Let us go then,you and I,suggests that what follows is a dramatic monologue with

6、an audience.Analysis of The Waste LandFive Partsrepresents the rebirth of the land after the barren wintera contrast between splendor of the past and the squalor of modern lifevignettes of the sordidness of modern life. the vision of a drowned Phoenician sailor who dies by water, not thirstrepresent

7、s the decay of modern Europe through symbols of the Grail legend. “The Game of Chess”.“The Fire Sermon”“The Burial of the Dead”“What the Thunder Said”Death by water.In poetry, he used a very wide range of typical, from Shakespear to Dante, Baudelaire, Wagner and so on. Also cited the Buddhist, folk

8、songs and works of many anthropologists.The poems noticeable characteristics are varied length and rhythm to harmonize with the changing subject matterThe unrhymed lineLots of borrowing from some thirty-five different writersThe materials such as the legends of the Holy Grail, Frazers anthropologica

9、l work The Golden Bough, several pop songs, and passages in seven foreign languages.CharacteristicsPosition: The poem 【 The Waste Land 】 by T. S. Eliot, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of Modernism. It is a fine looking Homes on the Poems of God. It is one of the most important poems of the 20th century.ConclusionThe theme of the poem is modern spiritual barrenness, the despair and depressi