T.S. Eliot （ ） 王敏 杨扬 2010

birth  a middle class family originally from New England.  Father: Henry Ware Eliot / a successful businessman/ president and treasurer( 出纳员 ) of the company.  Mother: Charlotte Champe Stearns /poetry/ a social worker/ a new profession in the early 20 th century.

  Eliot attended Smith Academy, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen. Education

  He studied philosophy at Harvard College, earning his bachelor's degree after three years.   he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson.

  He was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit 梵文.  1915  Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford.

Marriage  Vivienne/They were married at Hampstead Register Office on 26 June  The marriage was unhappy / Vivienne's health issues. / Eliot

Remarriage  On 10 January 1957/ 68/ Valerie Fletcher/ 30.  Eliot knew Fletcher well/his secretary / since August  After Eliot's death, Valerie /preserving his legacy. Valerie Eliot died on 9 November 2012 at her home in London.

Honor Eliot received:  the Nobel Prize for Literature in  the Order of Merit in January  the Hanseatic Gothe Prize in 1954  the Dante Gold Medal in 1959.

Death  For many years Eliot had suffered from lung-related health problems /heavy smoking. His ashes were taken to St. Michael's Church in East Coker.  A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem "East Coker", "In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."

Major works Poetry  The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》  The Waste Land 《荒原》  The Hollow Men 《空心人》  Ash-Wednesday 《圣灰星期三》  Four Quartets 《四个四重奏》

Plays  Sweeney Agonistes 《力士斯威尼》  Murder in the Cathedral 《大教堂凶杀案》  The Cocktail Party 《鸡尾酒会》

The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock introduction   23years old  Character ： Profrock  Title ： misleading

3sections Being the fear of living Being the awakening The realization that it was all too late

What kind of person is prufrock  self-doubts,pessimistic outlook on his future,society and the world  unable to declare his love to the unnamed woman  aware of the possibility of personal fulfillment,but afraid to act,unable to claim for himself a more meaningful existence

The waste land  因为我在古米亲眼看见西比尔吊在笼子里。 孩子们问她：你要什么，西比尔？ 她回答道：我要死。 ”  That corpse you planted last year in your garden, ‘ Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? 去年你种在你的花园里的尸首， 它发芽了吗？今年能开花吗