艾略特作品及个人简介课件.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,艾略特,第二次世界大战前用英语写作的最有影响的诗人英国和美国人民争夺的才子,Early Life,Eliot,was born into the Eliot family,a middle class family originally from New England,who had moved to St.Louis,Missouri,.His father,Henry Ware Eliot,was a successful businessman,president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St.Louis.His mother,Charlotte Champe Stearns,wrote poetry and was a social worker.,Eliot,was the last of six surviving children;his parents were both 44 years old when he was born.Known to family and friends as Tom,he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather Thomas Stearns.,Education,From 1898 to 1905,Eliot attended Smith Academy,where his studies included Latin,Ancient Greek,French,and German,After graduation,Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year,where he met Scofield Thayer,who would later publish The Waste Land.,He studied philosophy at Harvard,from 1906 to 1909,earning his bachelors degree after three years,instead of the usual four,.,Education,After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard,from 1909 to 1910,Eliot moved to Paris,where from 1910 to 1911,he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.,From 1911 to 1914,he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit.,By 1916,he had completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H.Bradley,but he failed to return for the viva voce exam,Death and Honors,Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4,1965.For many years he had had health problems caused by his heavy smoking,and had often been laid low with bronchitis or tachycardia.He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.In accordance with Eliots wishes,his ashes were taken to St.Michaels Church in East Coker,the village from which his ancestors had emigrated to America.,A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem East Coker,In my beginning is my end.In my end is my beginning.,In 1967,on the second anniversary of his death,Eliot was commemorated by the installation of a large stone in the floor of Poets Corner in Londons Westminster Abbey.,Works,Prose,The Birds of Prey(a short story;1905),A Tale of a Whale(a short story;1905),The Man Who Was King(a short story;1905),Poems,A Fable for Feasters(1905),A Lyric:If Time and Space as Sages say(1905),At Graduation 1905(1905),Song:If space and time,as sages say(1907),Before Morning(1908),Circes Palace(1908),Song:When we came home across the hill(1909),Works,Poetry,PoetryPrufrock and Other Observations(1917),The Waste Land(1922),The Hollow Men(1925),Ariel Poems(19271954),The Journey of the Magi(1927),Ash Wednesday(1930),Coriolan(1931),Old Possums Book of Practical Cats(1939),The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs and Billy MCaw:The Remarkable Parrot(1939)in The Queens Book of the Red Cross,Four Quartets(1945),Works,Plays,Sweeney Agonistes(published in 1926,first performed in 1934),The Rock(1934),Murder in the Cathedral(1935),The Family Reunion(1939),The Cocktail Party(1949),The Confidential Clerk(1953),The Elder Statesman(first performed in 1958,published in 1959),Brief Conlusion,The poem that made his name,The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement,and was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language,including,Gerontion,The Waste Land,The Hollow Men,Ash Wednesday,and,Four Quartets.,He is also known for his seven plays,particularly,Murder in the Cathedral,(1935).He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.,Thomas Stearns Eliot OM(September 26,1888 January 4,1965)was a publisher,playwright,literary and social critic and,arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century,.,The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,commonly known as,Prufrock,is a poem by,T.S.Eliot,begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915.Described as a drama of literary anguish,it presents a,stream of consciousness,in the form of a,dramatic monologue,and marked the beginning of Eliots career as an influential poet.With its weariness,regret,embarrassment,longing,emasculation,sexual frustration,sense of decay,and awareness of mortality,Prufrock,has become one of the most recognized voices in modern literature.,Analysis of Prufrock,Title,His character,Irony,Major Themes of“Prufrock”,Poetic Form,Title,In the drafts,the poem 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,.,On the origin of the name Prufrock,there was a Prufrock-Litton Company in,St Louis,at the time Eliot lived there,a furniture store,.,His Character,anti-hero:self-conscious,self-distrusting,timid,lacking in vitality and courage/coward,impotent physically and spiritually,tortured between desire and impotence,desire for love,yet afraid of being rejected and misunderstood,desires for true life,love,turn a new。