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Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce 本科生毕业论文 T. S Eliot and His The Waste Land 学生姓名 1.宋体， 小三号， 下同 2.横线内居中填写，下同 别 院 别 外语学院 专 业 英语（商务英语）　 班 级 学 号 2009年5月18日 Abstract T. S. Eliot was one of the finest poets writing in English in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the first poet to vividly depict the mass’s fates and all kinds of persons of modern western cities combined with myths and histories in a wide picture. He made new experiments and innovations in the composition of poetry, and produced a kind of new poetry which enlarged the range and form of poetic expression as a medium of the modern consciousness. As a Nobel prize laureate and certainly the banner-bearer of Modernist Movement. T.S Eliot has suffered some decline in his literary fame in recent decades not only because of his willed juxtaposition of broken images in his poetry but also because of his vehement advocacy of Christianity as a suitable institution for human society. The whole thesis mainly talks about Eliot’s literary career and the characteristics of his poetry, including the themes (boredom, life and death, etc.) and techniques (allusion and myth). The Waste Land centers on death and resurrection, revealing the connection between sensuality and anxiety, between sin and sensuality. In this poem, owing to some inexplicable insufficiency in human nature, man is liable to the temptations of flesh. Sexual temptations lead to suffering and death, man’s history is nothing but “birth, and copulation, and death”. As a result, sin, lust, evil and death together form a circle among which there is the mutual cause and effect relation. Therefore, earthly love, even in most intense form, as in that between the lover and the hyacinth girl, with its romantic associations, will fail man in the end. The thesis also probes into Eliot’s poetic view and writing style. Key words: sterility；irony；symbolism；myth；death 摘 要 托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特是二十纪上半叶最伟大的诗人, 也是第一位以广阔的画面结合神话与历史来生动描写