Nietzschean Tragic Spirit in Reverse Writing:A Case Study of The Love Songs of Prufrock
Despite T.S.Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock serving as a lament-like metaphysical narrative that unveils the curtain of modern English and American poetry,its representational patterns and profound implications have received little at-tention from the academic circles in England and America.With T.S.Eliot's well-known Nietzschean masterpiece The Birth of Tragedy as the background knowledge framework for logical deduction,this study explores the reverse writing of the Nie-tzschean tragic spirit in The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,which holds significant importance for Eliot studies in terms of tracing intellectual origins and artistic representation.The research reveals that the two major tragic representations,will pa-ralysis and self-division,within the poem form a counter-meaning against the binary opposition of the Dionysian spirit and the Apollonian spirit.This Nietzschean tragic spirit in descending format poetry not only exposes the contradictory characteristics of early Western modern civilization but also highlights,in a paradoxical manner,the intense ideological conflicts during the process of modern civilization's transformation,ultimately endowing modern English and American poetry with new insights into the tragic spirit.
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