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1、WanderingAroundSalvationandTemptation 【Abstract】Prufrockinthepoem“TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock”isasplitcharacterwithtimidityandhesitation,whowandersaroundsalvationandtemptation.Thispapertriestoanalyzehisparadoxicalpsychologywiththeanalysisofthepoem. 【KeyWorld
2、s】Prufrock,salvation,temptation,psychology “TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock”isaveryfamouspoemwrittenbytheprominentAmericanwriterT.S.Eliot.ThispoemisadramaticmonologueofthemaincharacterJ.AlfredPrufrock.Usinghisowneyesandears,Prufrockdepictsapictureofthesociety,whi
3、chhasalreadybeencorruptedanddegraded.Fromhiswords,itcanbeseenveryclearlythatontheonehand,hewantstochangethesituationofthesociety,thatistosay,heintendstosavethedyingworld;ontheotherhand,heisalsotemptedbythosewomen,bysexuality.Whenhethinksoftheeroticsociety,heinte
4、ndstousehisvoicetowakepeople.However,hedeniesitverysoon,becauseheconsidersthosewomen,andhealsowantstoflowwiththemainstreamofsociety.Inthisway,Prufrockwandersandwandersaroundsalvationandtemptationwithoutmakingdecisions.Thispaperwillanalyzehisparadoxicalpsychology
5、indetails. TheopeningstanzaofthepoemisanepigraphfromDante’sInferno.ThisindicatesthatPrufrockfindsanideallistenerwhowillneverbetraytotheworldthecontentofhispresentconfessionanditalsoimpliesthesocietythattheyaregoingtovisitisjustlikethehell.Theword“etherized”desc
6、ribesthegeneralsituationoftheworld.Thefirstthingtheyseeandhearis“women”,whotemptPrufrock.Thenheusesseveralimagestodescribethesociety:“theyellowfog”,“theyellowsmoke”,“thepools”,“thesoot”,“terrace”and“asuddenleap”.Thesesexualimagesshowthatthewholesocietyisfilledby
7、thepeople’ssexualdesireandsexualactions.Thefogandsmokeislikeacatfiredbysexualdesire,which“l(fā)ickeditstongueintothecornersoftheevening”.Inthenextstanza,Prufrocksays,“therewillbetime…”and“Timeforyouandtimeforme,/Andtimeyetforahundredindecision,/Andforahundredvisions
8、andrevisions”.Hehasalreadybeenverytiredofthephenomenonofthesociety,butuntilnowherefusestomakehisdecisiontosavetheworldbecausehethinks,“therewillbetime”.Hethinksofthet