文档介绍：上海师范大学
硕士学位论文
论艾略特与浪漫主义的联系和疏离
姓名:姒峥
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:叶华年
20010401
Acknowledgement
I would like to express here my long-cherished
gratitude and respect for Professor Ye Huanian, whose
meticulous scholarship inspired me both in my
undergraduate years and now.
I also feel grateful to all the other teachers that
offered me kind help in my years of study. Without
them, I might not have had so smooth a journey during
my soon-to-be-gone youth.
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze Eliot’s relation to Romanticism.
On the one hand, some of Eliot’s works, especially his juvenile poems,
betray certain traces of the influence of Romanticism, and on the other hand,
after developing certain theories concerning poetic creation, the mature Eliot
alienates himself from Romanticism and even opposes to it to a certain
extent. As for Eliot’s connection with Romanticism, this thesis mainly deals
with two aspects. One is the subject and feeling and the other is the mood of
dejection and escape. Through the juxtaposition of some poems of Eliot’s
with some of the Romantic poets’, we can see that when Eliot was initiated
into poetry, his poems read rather Romantic-like because the feelings
contained in these poems are simple, spontaneous and straightforward. His
poems at a later stage are not totally rid of the shadow of Romanticism either,
because the feeling of dissatisfaction and disappointment with reality and the
resultant nostalgia and wish for escape are reminiscent of the mood in many
Romantic poems. Nevertheless, Eliot on the whole is on a different path
from Romantic poets. First, the use of images is one big difference between
Eliot and Romantic poets. Influenced by the French symbolism and the
Imagism, Eliot often chooses to use precise and thought-provoking images
to uncover the dark or hidden parts of life. Second, a close look at some of
his critical essays enables us to s