T.S. Eliot's Poetic Drama and a Process to Revive the Community--Back and Forth between the Secular World and the Religious World--

我考虑T.S.艾略特的诗剧、诗歌和批评三者之间的密切关系。他诗歌的主题逐渐从早期贫瘠的城市世界转向后期的宗教世界。他早期的诗剧和他最后的诗一样充满宗教色彩。但在他后期的戏剧中，艾略特又回到了世俗世界，他承认世俗生活和圣人般的生活一样重要和美好。在他的诗歌戏剧与批评的相互关系中，我们可以看到他的价值观也发生了同样的转变。在艾略特早期的社区观中，他认为宗教生活高于世俗生活。但他逐渐认识到宗教生活与世俗生活之间有一种无形的亲切交流。对艾略特来说，剧院是一个重要的场所，展示了一个理想的复兴社区的过程。

I consider how closely T.S. Eliot's poetic drama, poetry and criticism correlate with each other. The theme of his poetry gradually shifts from the sterile urban world in his early poems to the religious world in his latter ones. His early poetic dramas were as religious as his last poems. But in his later dramas, Eliot comes back to the secular world and admits that a secular life is as important and good as a saint-like life.We can see the same shift of his sense of values in the correlation between his poetic drama and criticism. In his early view of community, Eliot valued the religious life above the secular life. But he gradually comes to recognize an invisible cordial interchange between the religious life and the secular life. For Eliot, a theatre was a significant place to show an ideal process to revive the community.