艾略特早期作品中美国人形象的政治隐喻

A Study of the Political Metaphor of the Image of Americans in T. S. Eliot’s Early Writings

本文聚焦托·斯·艾略特的三篇早期文学作品《带着贝德克尔旅游指南的伯班克:抽着雪茄的布莱斯坦》、《蜜月》和《力士斯威尼》,探讨其中访问、徘徊和驻留在欧洲大陆的美国人形象。通过结合这三篇文学作品的创作语境以及诗人的传记信息,本文认为诗人在这三篇早期文学作品中对美国人形象的描写可以被视作一类政治隐喻形塑,因其暗示了艾略特对于美国参加第一次世界大战和威尔逊政府一战后外交政策的关注,同时表露了诗人对于美国一战后外交策略在欧洲战后和平重建过程中所发挥作用的反思。

This article focuses on T. S. Eliot’s three early literary works, including “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”, “Lune de Miel” and Sweeney Agonistes, and explores the image of Americans who visit, stay and encamp in the European continent in the three works. By associating the writing context with the poet’s biographical information, this study argues that the description of the image of Americans in the three literary works could be deemed as the shaping of a political metaphor, since it alludes to Eliot’s attention to both the United States’ entry into World War I and the Thomas Woodrow Wilson administration’s post-WWI foreign policies, and suggests the poet’s reflection on the impact of the United States government’s post-WWI foreign policies on the European peace reconstruction.