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浅析T.S.艾略特早期诗歌中的现代人形象

时间:2009-8-8 16:56:54  来源:不详
the speaker in The Waste Land fails to address the hyacinth girl and the hollow Men are transfixed by eyes they dare not meet in dreams. Here Prufrock fails to confront his selfhood from the beginning. As soon as the readers hear what Prufrock speaks at the beginning, they can see what kind of person Prufrock belongs to obviously.
The image of evening does not give us a quiet and free mode. Instead, it is “like a patient etherized upon a table” (line3). Here the evening is changed into an unconscious, lifeless patient. It implies the essence of the modern life. In this environment, Prufrock is in dilemma and trapped into conflicts. Prufrock needs contact with common people, and hopes he can do the things he ought to do, expressing his true feeling to his lover. However, Prufrock is afraid to contact with opposite sex. He knows he is longing for her. However, he is afraid of refusal, his inner thoughts and fears won’t allow him to risk the seeking of actual love, so he does nothing to contact with her further.
Generally speaking, when a man is going to see his sweetheart, he will be very excited. He would just go on even if he failed at last instead of leaving regrets for the reason of hesitation. However, Prufrock is completely opposite to the traditional man who is longing for his lover. At the beginning of the poem, Prufrock is planning to visit his girlfriend, but till the end of the poem, Prufrock does not make any real closer contact with her. All the actions and behaviors happen on the way to his girlfriend’s home or we can also say that Prufrock does not move any way at all. He just stands in a place, thinking in his inner mind and this way is too long and too curve for him. It is the portrait of Prufrock’s innermost being. Of course, for Prufrock’s very shortcomings, it is impossible for him to succeed in the end. Prufrock is hesitant like the prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s famous work Hamlet. He is destined to failure. If we say what Hamlet struggles with is his inner heart, and we can say what Prufrock struggles with is his emotional conflicts as to ‘whether to express his true feelings or not.’ He does not express his feeling but just hesitates all the time; he is trapped by his spiritual debates.
“And indeed there will be time (line 23) /There will be time, there will be time (line 26)/Time for you and time for me (line 31).” The repetitions of these sentences are the real reflection of Prufrock’s emotional conflicts and hesitant inner being. Prufrock also tries to escape from the boring life. But he finds there are only “coffee spoons” and “butt-ends” in his life. The world is just like a patient and “In the room the women come and go (line13)/ Talking of Michelangelo. (line14)” Prufrock detests the snobbery, the pathosis and the untruth of the upper society. It is Prufrock’s timidity that makes him hesitant all the time. If Prufrock were not so hesitant, he would have more chance, and perhaps the girl would accept his love.
(ⅱ) Self-deception--- another illness of Prufrock
Prufrock is also a man who is self-deceiving: “There will be time, there will be time (line26)/To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet…(line27)” But is there enough time left for him. The answer is of course “No”, “With a bald spot in the middle of my hair (line40)”— Prufrock is becoming older and older, the time left for him is becoming less and less. As time goes on, it is impossible for him to do the things as he wishes, and Prufrock will die very quickly. “Do I dare (line45)/ Disturb the universe? (line46)” In fact, Prufrock dares not to act. We all know Prufrock needs love. We know his eager for love. We can also understand his emotional condition when he keeps on saying: “There will be time, there will be time. (line26)” However, after all, time waits for no one, there will be not enough time left for him with the time flying. From Prufrock’s words we know Prufrock is a man who is self-deceiving just when he first appears at the beginning of the poem. Self-deception is Prufrock’s clear illness. As usual, when people meet difficulties or frustrations, the only thing they can do is to face the reality. Self-deceiving is useless for them. If they go on cheating themselves without realizing it, they would fall into trouble. In the last verses, the party winds down but he still chooses to torture himself desperately, trying to find a way to reconfigure his persona: “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? (line122)” However, all of these attempts will be useless and hopeless. He is cheating himself. If Prufrock could admit that time is limited and try his best to do the things he wants to do as quickly as possible rather than self-deceiving, he might succeed at last.
(ⅲ) The lack of will and confidence
    Prufrock lacks will and confidence. Prufrock never develops his will and confidence to face death and reality. He lacks the will to act in accordance with hi

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