艾略特荒原英语专业毕业论文.doc

摘　要 在荒原一诗中，艾略特熟练的运用了隐喻，象征，比照等多种手法，而比照艺术的运用更为突出本文将着重从主题的比照和意象 的借助来探讨和论证这些比照在整首诗中所起的举足轻重的作用借助以上两个方面的描写，在艾略特向读者展示了一幅生动形象的现代文明的荒芜的画面及现代人的精神荒原，并从中探寻了荒原形成的原因和拯救荒原的途径，从而反映了诗人整治荒原，使腐朽的现代西方文明获得新生的强烈渴望和希冀 关键词：荒原 比照 主题 意象Abstract In the waste land, Eliot skillfully uses allusions, symbols and contrasts, of which the contrast art is more significant and effective. So I set my analysis on the contrast art used in the waste land, This thesis is divided into two chapters to analyze the contrast technique used in two aspects in the poem: contrast in themes and in images. And this thesis mainly focuses on the prominent role the contrast technique plays in the poem. Through the use of contrast art, Eliot paints the readers a vivid picture of the barren modern civilization and modern man’s spiritual waste land, and he also points out the causes of the waste land and ways of its salvation, which shows the poet’s eager desire and hope for the regeneration of the waste land.Key words: waste land contrast theme image Contents 摘要…………………………………………………………………………Abstract…………………………………………………………Introduction………………………………………………………Ⅰ Contrast in Themes…………………………………………1.1 Contrast Between Death and Life1.1 .1 The state of death in the waste land.2 The Spiritual Death of the Waste Land The regeneration derived from the death 1.2 Contrast Between Love and LustⅡ Contrast in Images2.1 Contrast in the Symbolic Meaning of Water The Dying State Caused by Water Shortage in The Life Signal Originated from Water Contrast Between the Symbolic Meaning of Fire.1 The Destructive Meaning of Fire .2 Fire of Refining in the WasteLand2.2 Contrast in the Symbolic Meaning of Season Images The contrast meaning of spring The Contrast Meaning of Summer and Winter ConclusionBibliographyIntroduction As one of the major founders modernism and a chief figure in New Criticism, T.S.　Eliot has greatly influenced the development of modern British and American poetry and set the way poems were read and taught for nearly half a century .T.S. Eliot succeeds in many careers :critic, playwright ,philosopher and first of all an excellent and successful poet. Eliot’s poetry are noted for its fresh visual image, its flexible tone and highly expressive rhythm with the publication of the waste land ,which revealing as it does the spiritual crisis of postwar Europe, read like the manifesto of the “Lost Generation 〞 and established Eliot’s position as the leader .not of new American poetry ,but of a whole generation of writers later to be identified as “waste land Painters 〞 like Hemingway and Faulkner. The waste land which was regarded the manifesto of Modernism was drafted during a great cure at Margate and Lausance in the autumn of 1921.Under Ezra Pound’s caesarean operation, the original manuscript was reduced to about half its size. On its first appearance in 1922 in the Criterion and later in the Dial, the waste land opened a new door for modern poetry although there were controversial ideas towards the poem. Some welcomed it as the model of modernism ,which reflects the subtlety of modern art and complexity of modern world. Some denied it as a great disaster, but the waste land does exemplify in many ways the experiment of the modern movement .With its many sudden transitions and implication, allusions and the frequent use of several foreign languages. Eliot placed before his readers a poem of fragments without apparent thematic clarity . A waste land ,is a desert on any place inhospitable to life. It’s a symbol of the dryness and place inhospitable spirit. T.S. Eliot interprets the contemporary situation in Europe and The United States as one of moral and cultural decay .Eliot alludes to the myth of the Holy Grail to suggest a mysterious but particular analyge between the waste land brought about by the wounding of the Fisher King and the sterile existence of modern waste land produced by the destructive world war two. The poem ,though it may look like an arbitrary assemblage does comprise five distinct sections in a sequence : The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess ,The Fire Sermon ,Death by Water and What the Thunder Said. In the poem ,Eliot employs many devices such as streams of consciousness writing sudden switches of scene as film clips, motifs from classical and medieval myth. All these make the poem so great and original and at the same time a little difficult to read. The poem is also characterized by an abundant use of allusions and symbols , well-arranged contrasts, many voices and shifting tones. Among all of these devices ,the contrast technique stands out prominently. In some aspects as themes and images is skillfully used by Eliot in the poem. Each of above elements contributes a lot to the success and greatness of the poem , of which the contrast art seems to be more significant and effective.。