艾略特的代表作《荒原》被认为是现代派诗歌中的里程碑。《荒原》十分晦涩难懂,但仍受到批评家的肯定和读者的热捧。《荒原》中的众多神话典故再现了人们对“生与死”问题的思考和对“希望”的追寻两种神话原型,表达了人类的集体无意识。《荒原》中的神话原型,激发了读者的集体无意识,使读者产生了共鸣,读者即使读不懂《荒原》但仍被它迷住。 Elliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land is considered as a milestone in modernist poetry. “Wasteland” is very obscure, but still critics praise and readers favorable. Many myths and allusions in “The Waste Land” reproduce two kinds of mythical prototypes about the questions of “life and death” and the pursuit of “hope ”, and express the collective unconsciousness of mankind. The mythological prototype in The Waste Land stimulates the reader’s collective unconsciousness and resonates with the reader. The reader is still fascinated by it even if he does not understand the Waste Land.