无意义中的意义：艾略特《荒原》中生死隐喻之哲学源考

Title： Meanings in the Meaningless： Revisiting the Philosophical Sources of Metaphors on Life andDeathinEliot'sTheWasteLand

Abstract： The Waste Land，a groundbreaking modernist masterpiece by Thomas Eliot， fosters metaphorical connotations of reincarnation， cautionary implication and spiritual redemption with complicated images of life and death in natural landscapes，literary classics and mythological prototypes. Breaking away from the conventional approach of interpreting literary works solely from structuralist standpoint， this paper elucidates the intrinsic connections between metaphors on life and death and the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche and Bergson.It also probes into the philosophical foundations of Eliot's“historical senses”，conception of time， and outlook on life based on the concept of the eternal return， time as duration，and Eastern and Western religious philosophies. Within this context， it sheds light on the truth of life obscured by historical experience， thus constructing the experience of life and death and subsequently generating the world of meaning in the“nothingness of history” and“vacuum of meaning".

Key words： The Waste Land; metaphors on life and death; eternal return; time as duration; religious philosophies

Authors： Lin Panlong is lecturer and Ph. D. candidate at the School of Foreign Languages of Yanbian University （Yanji l33o02， China）， specializing in British and American literature and metaphor studies. E-mail： michaellin668 @ 163.com. Sun Yi is professor at both the Faculty of English Language and Culture and the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies （Guangzhou 51o006， China）， specializing literary metaphor and contemporary theory of metaphor. E-mail： 20191oo08@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn

作为“寓哲于诗”的先行者，托马斯·艾略特（ThomasEliot，1888-1965）因其“对现代诗歌开拓性的卓越贡献”而荣获1948年诺贝尔文学奖。（剩余12920字）