| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| 1 General Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Historical content | 第10-12页 |
| ·Eliot's artistic views | 第12-15页 |
| 2 The Important Factors Influencing The Waste Land | 第15-20页 |
| ·Perspectives on the 20~(th) century | 第15-17页 |
| ·Eliot's philosophical background | 第17-20页 |
| 3 Mythical Method and Tiresias' Function in Mythological Perspective | 第20-27页 |
| ·Mythical method and mythic consciousness | 第21-23页 |
| ·Tiresias' function in mythological perspective | 第23-27页 |
| 4 Tiresias' Ironic Function in The Waste Land | 第27-48页 |
| ·The myth of tiresias in literary tradition | 第29-35页 |
| ·Tiresias' ironic function in The Waste Land | 第35-48页 |
| ·Tiresias' ironic function in section three | 第39-43页 |
| ·The irony of section five | 第43-48页 |
| 5 Tiresias' Function in the Structure of The Waste Land | 第48-55页 |
| ·The structure of The Waste Land | 第48-49页 |
| ·Tiresias' function in the structure of The Waste Land | 第49-55页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-58页 |
