The Comparison Between Baudelaire's Correspondance And Eliot's Objective Correlative

Baudelaire's Correspondance and Eliot's Objective Correlative are both the literary theories which engender far-reaching influences.The novelty and profundity inaugurate the vogue.Baudelaire and Eliot carry out their literary theories to their composition felicitously and thoroughly.Baudelaire is the originator of Symbolistic literarature and Eliot is the representative of Post-Symbolistic literature.Their theories have similarities and sameness. But due to the differences of objective and subjective factors,the dissimilitudes are evident.Through comparison,we can get the vision of development of Symbolism.In the course of development,the latter's composition and innovation make it a successive literary genre which add a bold stroke to the literary tradition.First,this article tracks back to the ancient Greece for the origin of Symbolism and then discusses the Kant's Aesthetic theory which has a great influence on Symbolism.The following second,third,four and five chapters are the backbone of this article.After discussing Baudelaire and Eliot's separate theories—Correspondance and Objective Correlative,this article will compare their similarities through backgrounds,their emphasis on the writer's initiatives,the yearnings for the yore and musical factor and their dissimilitudes through attitudes to emotion, relations to tradition and the different religiosities,attempting to exhibit the comparatively clear points of their differences and similarities from which the two phases of Symbolistic literature are expatiated in a deeper degree..