Whatthethundersaid分析.pptx

Ⅴ. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID;第五章《雷霆的话》。重新回到欧洲是一片干旱的荒原这一主题。诗的起首用耶稣被钉死在十字架上来象征信仰、理想、崇高的精神追求在欧洲大地上消失，诗人认为，从此欧洲便成了一片可怖的荒原。人们渴望着活命的水，盼望着救世主的出现，盼望着世界的复苏，灵魂的再造。他用《圣经》的典故写了耶稣复活后的身影。然而基督并未重临，却听见了惊天动的一声巨响―――革命的象征。艾略特把社会主义革命视为人类的一场灾难。最后，诗人借雷霆的话告诫人们：要施舍、同情、克制、皈依宗教，这样大地才会复苏，人们才会摆脱不死不活的处境获得永久的宁静。 ;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 place and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience ;the water-dripping song of the hermit-thrush; longing for water, rejuvenation ;the water-dripping song of the hermit-thrush; longing for water, rejuvenation ;Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you? ;What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal ;A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings And crawled head downward down a blackened wall And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. ;In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the winds home. It has no windows, and the door swings