“回到过去”:T.S.艾略特的回归思想

“Return to the Past”: T. S. Eliot's Idea of Return

"回到过去,回到我们的最初世界"构成了T.S.艾略特回归思想的核心,这一思想揭示了现代人的身份焦虑以及回归精神家园的渴求。回到过去意味着回归生命的原点,艾略特希望通过回到过去实现对现在的拯救。这一思想是艾略特的传统观在文化意义上的延伸,是纯粹意义上的存在之思。艾略特主张单纯从时间自身不能回到过去,只有通过空间和意识的作用才能实现。他在诗歌中通过空间意象构筑"呈现场",让读者在想象中重回过去,体验家的温暖和原初世界的幸福与和谐。

"Return to the past,go into our first world"is the core of T. S. Eliot's idea of return which reveals modern man's anxiety of identity and yearning for home. Returning to the past means returning to the beginning of life. Eliot means to save the present by returning to the past. As the expansion of his concept of tradition,Eliot's idea of return is a true idea of "being". Eliot insists that it is impossible to return to the past in time itself,and that the return can only be accomplished through space with the help of consciousness. In his poems,Eliot presents many examples of "champ de presence"by creating images of space,through which readers return to the past where they experience the warmth of home and the happiness and harmony of "our first world".