《多佛海滩》和《荒原》分别是马修·阿诺德和T.S.艾略特的经典诗作,反映了两位诗人对于所处时代和社会的道德关注。维多利亚时代的阿诺德,敏锐地察觉到表面浮华背后英国社会的信仰危机。艾略特的《荒原》描述了一战后西方社会的空虚死寂,现代人的道德沦丧。两首诗作中不同的道德解救体现了他们不同的文学主张。这种崇高的道德关注,正是两首诗作美学精神的体现,也为诗歌赏析提供了人文解读的新视角。 “Dover Beach” and “The Waste Land” are classic poems by Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot, respectively, reflecting the ethical concern of the two poets about the times and society. Victorian Arnold was acutely aware of the crisis of faith in British society behind the glitzy face. Eliot’s “Wasteland” describes the empty silence of Western society after World War I and the moral degeneration of modern people. The different moral relief in the two poems reflects their different literary ideas. This lofty moral concern is precisely the embodiment of the aesthetic spirit of the two poems and provides a new perspective of humanistic interpretation for the appreciation of poetry.