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T.S. Eliot ( 1888-1965 ) 王敏 2011155104 杨扬 2010
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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.
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1898 ---- 1905 Eliot attended Smith Academy, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen. Education
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1906 --- 1909 He studied philosophy at Harvard College, earning his bachelor's degree after three years. 1910 --- 1911 he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson.
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1911---1914 He was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit 梵文. 1915 Eliot was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford.
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Marriage Vivienne/They were married at Hampstead Register Office on 26 June 1915. The marriage was unhappy / Vivienne's health issues. / Eliot
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Remarriage On 10 January 1957/ 68/ Valerie Fletcher/ 30. Eliot knew Fletcher well/his secretary / since August 1949. After Eliot's death, Valerie /preserving his legacy. Valerie Eliot died on 9 November 2012 at her home in London.
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Honor Eliot received: the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. the Order of Merit in January 1948. the Hanseatic Gothe Prize in 1954 the Dante Gold Medal in 1959.
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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."
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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》
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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》
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The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock introduction 1910-1911 23years old Character : Profrock Title : misleading
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3sections Being the fear of living Being the awakening The realization that it was all too late
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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
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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
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