The Waste Land, the most famous poem of Thomas Stearns Eliot, reveals man's spiritual desolation, the quest out of the spiritual waste land and the metaphorical journey to the possible spiritual salvation. The kni...The Waste Land, the most famous poem of Thomas Stearns Eliot, reveals man's spiritual desolation, the quest out of the spiritual waste land and the metaphorical journey to the possible spiritual salvation. The knights'quest for the Holy Grail is one of the main threads of the poem and the application of this legend makes the poem involve the quest motif. This paper will make an analysis of the quest pattern in The Waste Land to reveal the wastelanders'mood of despair and their quest for spiritual salvation.展开更多
文摘The Waste Land, the most famous poem of Thomas Stearns Eliot, reveals man's spiritual desolation, the quest out of the spiritual waste land and the metaphorical journey to the possible spiritual salvation. The knights'quest for the Holy Grail is one of the main threads of the poem and the application of this legend makes the poem involve the quest motif. This paper will make an analysis of the quest pattern in The Waste Land to reveal the wastelanders'mood of despair and their quest for spiritual salvation.