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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. 2 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