| Acknowledgement | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第11页 |
| 1.2 Research Significance | 第11-12页 |
| 1.3 Structure of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第13-24页 |
| 2.1 The historical development of conceptual metaphors | 第13-19页 |
| 2.1.1 Researches abroad | 第14-15页 |
| 2.1.2 Researches at home | 第15-16页 |
| 2.1.3 New tendency in the last five years | 第16-18页 |
| 2.1.4 Conceptual metaphors in poetry at home and abroad | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on T. S. Eliot's poetry and the poetics of "impersonality" | 第19-24页 |
| 2.2.1 T. S. Eliot's poetics of "impersonality":an overview | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2.2 Three main perspectives on T. S. Eliot's early poems | 第20-24页 |
| 3. Theoretical Framework | 第24-30页 |
| 3.1 The conceptual metaphor theory | 第24-27页 |
| 3.1.1 Main claims of CMT | 第25-26页 |
| 3.1.2 Differences between conceptual metaphors and linguistic metaphors | 第26-27页 |
| 3.2 The experiential grounding of conceptual metaphors | 第27-30页 |
| 3.2.1 Conceptual metaphors in embodied experience | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2.2 Image schema theory in understanding conceptual metaphors | 第29-30页 |
| 4. Conceptual Metaphors in "Impersonal" Experience of T. S. Eliot's Early Poems | 第30-57页 |
| 4.1 A POEM IS A CONTAINER as an image schema of "impersonal" experience | 第30-34页 |
| 4.2 "Impersonal" experience in the AN EVENT IS AN ACTION metaphor | 第34-36页 |
| 4.3 "Impersonal" experience of T. S. Eliot's early poems reflected in TIME metaphors | 第36-41页 |
| 4.3.1 TIME IS A THING | 第37-38页 |
| 4.3.2 TIME IS A CHANGER | 第38-41页 |
| 4.4 The sensory metaphors in narrating "impersonal" experience | 第41-44页 |
| 4.5 Three metaphorized motifs in understanding the "impersonal" experience | 第44-57页 |
| 4.5.1 The LIFE metaphor | 第44-48页 |
| 4.5.2 The DEATH metaphor | 第48-50页 |
| 4.5.3 The DESTRUCTION metaphor | 第50-54页 |
| 4.5.4 Motifs as a realization of "impersonality" through conceptual metaphors | 第54-57页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| 5.1 Main findings | 第57-58页 |
| 5.2 Limitations of the present study | 第58-59页 |
| 5.3 Suggestions for further researches | 第59-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-63页 |
