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1、T.S.Eliot（ThomasStearnsEliot）(1888-1965)T.S.Eliot(1888-1965),BorninSt.Louis,graduatedfromHarvard（1910）andstudiedattheSorbonneandatMertonCollege,Oxford.In1914hewenttoEurope,andhedidnotreturntotheU.S.until1932.IntheinterveningyearshedidsomeschoolteachinginEngland,be
2、cameaLondonbankclerk,wrotereviewsandpoems,assistedineditingaliteraryjournal,andin1923becameeditorofthequarterlyreviewCriterion.In1927hebecameaBritishsubjectbecauseofhisinterestintheEnglishchurchandstate.CriticWorks:Hisfirstvolumeofcriticism,TheSacredWood(1920)Lanc
3、elotAndrewes(1928)AfterStrangeGods(1934)Hisfirstvolumeofverse,PrufrockandOtherObservations(1917)Asecondvolume,Poems(1920)TheWasteLand(1922)“TheHollowMen”(1925)Ash-Wednesday(1930)Thevoicein“Prufrock”managestoholdusthroughitsspellbinder’scharm.AnauditorytourdeforceT
4、hepowerof“apieceofrhymicalgrumbling”ImageryAccordingtoC.DayLewis’statements,animage“isapicturemadeoutwords,”andthat“apoemmayitselfbeanimagecomposedfromamultiplicityofimages”.Threediscriminableusesoftheterm“imagery”(1)“Imagery”(thatis,“images”takencollectively)isus
5、edtosignifyalltheobjectsandqualitiesofsenseperceptionreferredtoinapoemorotherworkofliterature,whetherbyliteraldescription,byallusion,orinthevehicles(thesecondaryreferences)ofitssimilesandmetaphors.Threediscriminableusesoftheterm“imagery”(2)Imageryisused,morenarrow
6、ly,tosignifyonlyspecifydescriptionsofvisibleobjectsandscenes,especiallyifthedescriptionisvividandparticularized.Threediscriminableusesoftheterm“imagery”(3)Commonlyinrecentusage,imagerysignifiesfigurativelanguage,especiallythevehiclesofmetaphorsandsimiles.Criticsaf
7、terthe1930s,andnotablytheNewCritics,wentfarbeyondearliercommentatorsinstressingimagery,inthissense,astheessentialcomponentinpoetryandasamajorfactorinpoeticmeaning,structure,andeffect.ModernismThetermiswidelyusedtoidentifynewanddistinctivefeaturesinthesubjects,form
8、s,concepts,andstylesofliteratureandtheotherartsintheearlydecadesofthepresentcentury,butespeciallyafterWorldWarI(1914-1918).ModernismThespecificfeaturess
