美国文学简史5.pptVIP

A Survey of American Literature Chapter 12 T.S. Eliot, Stevens, Williams Eliot (born in America, settled down in England) Major works: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land Hollow Man Four Quartets Murder in the Cathedral (play) Eliot’s poetry is difficult to read. images and symbols disconnect; lot of learned quotations and allusions The essence of his thought lies in the interaction between the past, the present, and the future. “Objective correlative”(客观对应物), impersonal theory ---using related objects, situations,