T.S.Eliot最终版本.ppt

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot). Made by 08英语（5）班 何琦 黄甜甜 方淼 CV Name: Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot). Birthday: 26 September, 1888. Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States Death day: 4 January, 1965 (aged?76).  Death place: London, England, United Kingdom. CV Triple identities: poet, dramatist, critic. Writing period: 1915-1965 Nationality: first American, then English in 1927. Literature: modernism Notable prize: Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Life in England In 1927, Eliot took two important steps in his self-definition. In 1932,he accepted the Charles Eliot Norton professorship for the 1932-1933 academic year From 1946 to 1957, Eliot shared a house with his friend, the editor and critic John Davy Hayward Triple identities Critic- the Sacred Wood 《神木》 Essays on Style and Order 《风格及秩序论文集》 Elizabethan Essays 《伊丽莎白论文集》 After Strange Gods 《拜异教之神》 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock This poem marked the start of Eliot’s career as one of the 20th centurys most influential poets. “Prufrock is about a lonely, sexually frustrated middle-aged man who, lacking self-confidence, wants to say something but is afraid to do so, and ultimately does not. Analysis of Prufrock 1. Title 2. His character 3. Irony 4. Major Themes of “Prufrock” 5. Poetic Form 1. Title In the drafts, the poem had the subtitle Prufrock among the Women. Eliot said The Love Song of portion of the title came from The Love Song of Har Dyal, a poem by Rudyard Kipling. 2. His Character anti-hero:self-conscious,self-distrusting, timid ,lacking in vitality and courage/ coward impotent physically and spiritually, tortured between desire and impotence desire for love, yet afraid of being rejected and misunderstood, desires for true life, love, turn a new leaf , yet has not courage to act/take action 3. Irony in the poem The title ”love song” sings of no love, but inability to love