| T. S. Eliot (Thomas Sterns Eliot ,1888—1965), as the pioneer of modern poems in the U.K and U.S.A , the owner of the Nobel prize in 1948 , the modernistic poet, critic and dramatist with great influence , made great success in many ways and was generally admitted and appreciated . Eliot's poems are extraordinary with great modernity, so are his theories of poetics. Eliot's theories of poetics are not only a kind of text concepts and writing rules, but also have profound sense of society and times. From de-personalization to the sense of rule, Eliot brought his theories of poetics into the field of criticism of society and culture, and by doing that he did his best to make rules for his times and world .The thesis begins with one of Eliot's important concepts of poetics "de-personalization", and it mainly deals with the relationship of text significance and the relationship of society and culture significance between "de-personalization" and "the sense of rule".Generally thinking, "de-personalization" means that poems should be into tradition and poets should try their best to escape from personality. Undoubtedly it just aims at writing technique with only text significance. In another way, it isn't enough, and it should also aim at society and culture significance. To Eliot, both poems and criticism maybe aren't his ultimate purpose-or the most important purpose. It should be the purpose of society that how to rebuild the social rule. It began with text writing into the tradition, and ended with pursuit of eternal value.Firstly, the thesis analyses the premise of Eliot's "de-personalization" and "the sense of rule". According to the real circumstance of times, western world was full of chaos, abruption and degeneration, and these all violently impacted hearts of people, especially of poets. When nobody could hold himself at all, the best way to solve it may be to pursue a new esse outside to lean on. Besides, Eliot's family religion and university education effected his "de-personalization" greatly.And the thesis researches the influence that romanticism had brought to Eliot. On one hand, freedom and individuality in romanticism developed in excess early in the 20th century and clashed with the demands of times and Eliot's opinion. On the other hand, religion became aesthetics taste and God became unreligious in romanticists, but Eliot insisted on rebuilding God and Christianity to save the world and times. So conflicts between them were inevitable. It also mean collision between individuality and de-personalization simultaneously.Secondly, by analyzing the relationship between de-personalization and tradition and Christianity, the thesis thinks that the real significance of de-personalization consists the consciousness of rebuilding the social rule under the modern conditions.On the one hand, tradition in Eliot was both a time concept and a text concept. Whether in Eliot's writings or in his text critics, de-personalization all means individual into tradition. Here Eliot emphasized primarily the text significance of de-personalization and the sense of rule. On the other hand, Eliot is not only a poet and a literature critic, but also a critic of society and culture. So de-personalization means also the society and culture significance. Only when people could get far away from chaos and abruption, and re-conform the Christianity religion, Eliot would sufficiently practice his sense of social rule. Here, the sense of rule becomes the pursuit of eternal value.If de-personalization is a pivotal word of Eliot's poems writing and poetics criticism, the sense of rule will be a pivotal word of Eliot's whole life. They are tied together tightly. From de-personalization to the sense of rule, we will comprehend Eliot as a poet sufficiently, and also grasp him as a critic of society. |
