“死亡”是文学作品永恒的母题。战争不可避免会造成死亡。为战而死可能造就英雄,也可能促生反英雄。对战争死亡的态度是不同时期时代精神的显现。我们可以从文学艺术作品长廊中战争死亡母题的流变来探微时代精神的发展。它们见证了人类从信仰的时代升入理性的乐观,从理性的乐观降至非理性的沉沦,最终彻底堕入荒诞与虚无之中。 “Death ” is the eternal motif of literary works. The war inevitably leads to death. Death may lead to the formation of a hero, may also promote anti-hero. The attitude toward the death of war is the manifestation of the spirit of the times in different periods. We can probe the development of the spirit of the times from the evolution of the motto of war death in the corridor of literary and artistic works. They testified to the optimism that mankind has risen from the time of faith to reason, from rational optimism to irrational decline, and finally has completely fallen into absurdity and nothingness.