恶之花荒原中城市生活的转换力量英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

The The Flowers of Evil：The Transforming Power of Urban Life in The耽steLand 恶之花：艾略特《荒原》中的城市生活的转换力量 Under the Supervision of Professor Ou Rong Submitted to School of Foreign Languages，Hangzhou Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Hangzhou，China May，2016 万方数据 The The Flowers of Evil：The Transforming Power of Urban Life in砌e WasteLand ABSTRACT The Waste Land exerts much impact the modernist poetry not only from the ways it represents the modem civilization and modem values，but also from the ways it conveys the urban poetics which is different from that of romanticism．The Waste Land is undoubtedly poem about the city of London well some other European cities．Since its publication,many scholars have focused their criticism the dark side of urban life that Eliot portrays in The Waste Land and agreed that the poem depicts decadent，fragmented London after World War 1 where the modem people lead meaningless life and much more attention has been paid to the urban evils in the field of literary studies．In the present thesis，inspired by Lefebvre’S critique of everyday life，1 will explore the hidden transforming power of urban life revealed in The Waste Land from the perspectives of flaneur，anders-streben and ekphrasis， attempting to break away from the conventional interpretations of the urban writing Eliot’S inter-art poetics applied in The Waste Land endows the ordinary urban life with the transforming power of diversity and unique aesthetic features，and enables its readers to see through the essence of the urban everyday life which is in the disguise of a degenerated,sordid wasteland． The thesis begins with concise introduction to The Waste Land,the literature review at home and abroad and the research purpose and significance．In my first chapter，I explicate the foundation of T．S．Eliot’S urban writing，reflecting Eliot’S urban experiences which provide rich source of inspiration and materials for his urban poetry and