T.S.Eliot最终版本.ppt

1、Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot).,Made by 08英语（5）班 何琦 黄甜甜 方淼,CV,Name: Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot). Birthday: 26 September, 1888. Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States Death day: 4 January, 1965 (aged76). Death place: London, England, United Kingdom.,CV,Triple identities: poet, dram

2、atist, critic. Writing period: 1915-1965 Nationality: first American, then English in 1927. Literature: modernism Notable prize: Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.,Life in England,In 1927, Eliot took two important steps in his self-definition. In 1932,he accepted the Charles Eliot Norton professorsh

3、ip for the 1932-1933 academic year From 1946 to 1957, Eliot shared a house with his friend, the editor and critic John Davy Hayward,1906-1910,1898 to 1905,1905,Education,1910-1911,1914,1911-1914,themes,Death (four kinds of death) Sexuality Lost generation The modern society futile and chaotic Religi

4、on War,Triple identities,Poet - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1911) The Waste Land (1922) (荒原) Hollow Man (1925) Ash Wednesday (1930) Four Quartets (1943 ) ( Noble Prize for literature) Dramatist- Sweeney Aginistes 力士斯威尼 Murder in the Cathedral 大教堂凶杀案 The Cocktail Party 鸡尾酒会 The Confidential

5、Clerk 机要秘书 The Family Reunion 全家团聚,Triple identities,Critic- the Sacred Wood 神木 Essays on Style and Order 风格及秩序论文集 Elizabethan Essays 伊丽莎白论文集 After Strange Gods 拜异教之神,The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,This poem marked the start of Eliots career as one of the 20th centurys most influential poets. “

6、Prufrock is about a lonely, sexually frustrated middle-aged man who, lacking self-confidence, wants to say something but is afraid to do so, and ultimately does not.,Analysis of Prufrock,1. Title 2. His character 3. Irony 4. Major Themes of “Prufrock” 5. Poetic Form,1. Title,In the drafts, the poem

7、had the subtitle Prufrock among the Women. Eliot said The Love Song of portion of the title came from The Love Song of Har Dyal, a poem by Rudyard Kipling.,2. His Character,anti-hero:self-conscious,self-distrusting, timid ,lacking in vitality and courage/ coward impotent physically and spiritually,

8、tortured between desire and impotence desire for love, yet afraid of being rejected and misunderstood, desires for true life, love, turn a new leaf , yet has not courage to act/take action,3. Irony in the poem,The title ”love song” sings of no love, but inability to love because of solipsism. He has

9、 clear insights into his sterile life but he is lacking in will to change that life.,His strong desire for love and his hundred times of indecisions and revisions. The usual, common nature of his confession contrasts with the hyperbole by which he defines the confession.,4.Major Themes of “Prufrock”

10、,Paralysis Fragmentation Repetition and anxiety,Paralysis: Like Hamlet, Prufrock is paralyzed and unable to act, about whether he should dare to eat a peach (122) in front of high-society women.,Fragmentation: Prufrocks mind is perhaps a better representative of this fragmentation: all over the plac

11、e, interrupted by doubt, and looping back on itself, Prufrocks train of thought is deeply fragmented. His mind jumps in new directions and leaves other thoughts cursorily examined or sometimes incomplete.,Repetition and anxiety: Eliot uses several refrains to illustrate Prufrocks tendency to get stu

12、ck on a problem. The repetition indicates Prufrocks paralysis in the present tense and inability to escape his restrictive thoughts and fears. The swinging rhythm of the poem hints at a confusing, chaotic sense of time within Prufrocks head.,5.Poetic Form,Free verse: no rhyme, meter, stanza form. Dr

13、amatic monologue: the character speaks directly to us about his thoughts in leaps and bounds, jumping from one image to another, just as human mind does. As we listen to his monologue and make connections that are not spelled out, we come to understand the essence of the man, the private self that P

14、rufrock hides from acquaintances.,Writing style,1. Eliots poetry was becoming noted for its fresh visual imagery, its flexible tone, and highly expressive rhythm. 2. Eliots poetry is difficult to read. a. For one thing the images and symbols seem very much disconnected b. An obvious source of diffic

15、ult 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 4. Dramatic monologue In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the first line, Let us go

16、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 .,Influence,Influence by: 1.The Imagist movement 2 .The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons, an English critic 3. Coleridge or