| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| 1.1 Research background | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Aims and significance of research | 第9页 |
| 1.3 Structure of the thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第11-21页 |
| 2.1 A brief introduction to T.S.Eliot | 第11-12页 |
| 2.2 Overview of research on T.S.Eliot | 第12-16页 |
| 2.3 Researches on conceptual metaphors in literature overseas and at home | 第16-19页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical framework | 第21-32页 |
| 3.1 Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory | 第21-30页 |
| 3.1.1 A brief retrospect on metaphor study | 第21-24页 |
| 3.1.2 Classification of conceptual metaphor | 第24-26页 |
| 3.1.3 Characteristics of conceptual metaphor | 第26-27页 |
| 3.1.4 Working mechanism of conceptual metaphor | 第27-30页 |
| 3.1.5 Significance of conceptual metaphor theory in analysis of poetry | 第30页 |
| 3.2 Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Four Images in T.S.Eliot’s poetry | 第32-40页 |
| 4.1 Image and poetry | 第32-38页 |
| 4.2 The three major subject images in Eliot’s poetry | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Five Metaphorical analysis of the three major subject images in Eliot’s poetry | 第40-56页 |
| 5.1 Identification of metaphors in the three major subject images | 第40-41页 |
| 5.1.1 Language data collection | 第40-41页 |
| 5.1.2 Language data processing | 第41页 |
| 5.2 Cultural characteristics of metaphor in Eliot’s poetry | 第41-44页 |
| 5.2.1 Metaphors and religion and mythology | 第41-43页 |
| 5.2.2 Metaphor and modern western civilization | 第43页 |
| 5.2.3 Metaphors and philosophy | 第43-44页 |
| 5.3 Working mechanism of metaphors in Eliot’s poetry: similarity | 第44-56页 |
| 5.3.1 Analysis of the metaphor — modern western civilization is a destruction | 第45-49页 |
| 5.3.2 Analysis of the metaphor — human’s spiritual suffering is death | 第49-52页 |
| 5.3.3 Analysis of the metaphor — the return of religions is the revival | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| 6.1 Major findings of the present study | 第56-57页 |
| 6.2 Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第57-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-61页 |
| Appendix | 第61-62页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第62页 |
