Abstract

    Kenneth Grahame(8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) is born in Edinburgh, Britain. His The Wind in the Willows is a nostalgic novel which filled with fantastic colors. The author wants to show his yearning for the fading natural pastoral life by the description of several animals who live in a beautiful rural world. In the way of fantasy, the four animals live in the world as well as human do. Grahame expresses his longing to the pure friendship in the interpersonal relationships by describing their rural life. Under the background of Grahame's childhood, the characters are described with a strong pursuit of rural life. Based on the structure of the environment, the depiction of the characters and the specific events, this paper may mainly analyzes the effect of fantasy socialism in depicting nostalgic theme in the novel to highlight the author’s nostalgia and pursuit of his childhood in the rural of English in the past time.

Key words: fantasy, pastoral life, nostalgia, childhood 

摘    要

    英国小说家肯尼斯·格雷厄姆的《柳林风声》是一篇充满幻想主义色彩的怀旧型小说。柳林风声是一部充满幻想主义色彩的怀旧型小说。作者想要通过描绘一群生活在田园之中的动物来表达他对逝去的田园生活的渴望。通过幻想主义手法，在书中，这群动物过着和人一样的生活。作者希望通过描绘这群动物的田园生活来表达他对单纯友情的追求。根据格雷厄姆童年的遭遇，书中表现了他对于田园生活的强烈渴望。本文将具体从其对于环境的构造、人物的刻画以及具体事件的描述入手，剖析文中的幻想主义对于刻画小说主题怀旧思想的作用。从而凸显作者对于童年田园乡村生活的怀念和追寻。

关键词：幻想，田园生活，怀旧，童年

Ⅰ.Introduction
 1.1 A simple introduction about Kenneth Grahame
 Kenneth Grahame was born in Castle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 8, 1859. He was the third of four children. Once he had a happy family, but after his mother’s death, everything changed. His father, James Cunningham Grahame, left them to their grandmother, Mrs. Ingles, a stern woman who lived in the village of Cookham Dene, Berkshire, on the banks of the Thames.
It is a chance for Kenneth to get close to nature. He spent many hours on the upper reaches of the Thames and it seems that the riverbank may have served the boy as an idyllic refuge from an unhappy childhood. He collected the best writing material at that time. The memory of the beautiful country house and the garden and the riverbank of the Thames provided the background of The Wind in the Willows.