象征主义诞生于十九世纪的中叶,很多知识分子对传统的统治也开始失望、怀疑、否定,使得传统的理性道德观念受到了很大的冲击,在这种背景下,象征主义文学的诞生表现了这种社会心态和作家的心理特征。托马斯·艾略特是英国20世纪影响最大的诗人,他的作品中有很多对阶级统治下的社会形态的反映。《荒原》是艾略特中期非常著名的作品,是西方现代诗歌中一部经典著作,具有划时代的意义,本文从象征主义视角对《荒原》进行解读。 Symbolism was born in the middle of the 19th century. Many intellectuals began to disappoint, suspect and denial the traditional rule, causing the traditional concept of morality to be greatly affected. Under this background, the birth of symbolism literature This social mentality and the writer’s psychological characteristics. Thomas Eliot is the most influential British poet in the 20th century. There are many works in his work that reflect the social formation under the rule of the class. “Wasteland” is a very famous work of Eliot mid-term. It is a classic book in modern Western poetry, with epoch-making significance. This article interprets the “wasteland” from the perspective of symbolism.