美国文学_T.S.EliotPPT.pptVIP

Characters (1) J. Alfred Prufrock (2) The Listener (3) The Women (4) The Lonely Men in Shirtsleeves IV. Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌 , 1915 The Waste Land, 荒原 , 1922 The Hollow Men, 空心人 , 1925 Ash Wednesday, 圣灰星期三 , 1930 Four Quartets, 四个四重奏 , 1944 His belief: poetry should aim at a representation of the complexities of modern civilization in language such representation necessarily leads to difficult poetry. In rejecting the poetic values of the English romantics and Victorians, Eliot, along with William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound, set new poetic standards equal to those established by James Joyce and Marcel Proust in fiction. i. The Waste Land his most famous work written when he was 34 Contents 1. Assessment 2. Synopsis: Five sections 3. Theme 4. Language Form 5. Symbolic meaning of “waste land” 1. Assessment The Waste Land, Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. expressed his horror at the spiritual turmoil of modern Europe. On one level it describes cultural and spiritual crisis, reflected in its use of fragmentation and discontinuity. The poem is 433 lines long and is divided into 5 sections, which are not logically constructed or connected. 2. Synopsis: Five sections Section I. The Burial of the Dead Section II. A Game of Chess Section III. The Fire Sermon Section IV. Death by Water Section V. What the Thunder Said 4. Theme (1) presents physical disorder and spiritual decadence in the modern western society (2) reflects disillusion and despair of a whole post war generation, anguish, menace, sterility had been afflicting all sensitive members of the postwar generation. (3) concerns with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning (4) reflects the 20th century people’s disillusion and frustration in a meaningless and boring world 5. Language Form moder