【论艾略特的诗歌理论】吴凤桥.pdf
JilinUniversity MasterDegreeThesis On T.S.Eliots Poetic Theory Major English Language and Litcrature Supervisor Associatc Prof.WangXiaoqun Author Wu Fengqiao Changchun P.R.
On T.S.Eliots Poetic Theory Introduction As a poet T.S.Eliot was most famous for his poem The Waste Land;asacritichewasmostwell-knownforhisstatementofapoetic principle that“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,but an escape of cmotion;it is not the expression of personality,but an escape fromp
motion.AssociationofemotionwithideaiswhatEliotaimedforinhis poetry and wliat he admired in the metaphysicalpoet JohnDonne.The emotionin poetry is impersonal,which suggests that thepoets emotion and the emotion in poetry should not be identical.