William Wordsworth and The Daffodils

William Wordsworth is best known for his poem,The Daffodils.This paper traces the origin of daffodils in Greek mythology,the four important facts in Wordsworth’s life and the poetic theories implied in his poem The Daffodils.The most important part shall be the appreciation and analysis of the poem.During this course,readers may find it difficult to understand Wordsworth’s poetic theories of Romanticism.However this is made easier by asking and answering questions and by comparing Chinese and English Romantic poems.     

Attachment&Abandonment——The Analysis of Dual Identities in Sylvia Plath’ s Daddy

The interpretation of Sylvia Plath’ s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the key to the interpretation of the poem as well as the poet ess’ feminist consciousness of anti-patriarchy.     

Analysis on Pan with us:From the Foregrounding and Cohesion Perspective

The thesis intends to analyze Robert Frost’s Pan with us from the foregrounding and cohesion perspective,trying to demonstrate how the poem reflects the poet’s the thoughts about the relationship between nature and man,as well as his attitudes towards life.     

A Brief Analysis on William Blake's London

William Blake(1757-1827) is a renowned British poet in the 18th centrury. His lyric poems displays the characteristics of romantic spirit, and he is regarded as the forefather of the British Romanticism. His London is a well-known lyric poetry, which is thought to be the best versicle in the West. Now let’s analyse this poem in terms of its theme, image and form and then draw a brief conclusion for the Characteristics of William Blake’s poem.     

Meanings in Sonnet 60 by Shakespeare——by Analyzing Rhetorical Devices and Sounds

The theme about the cruelty of time frequently appears in Shakespeare’s sonnets including the 60 th one. In this sonnet,rhetorical devices contribute to vividly express the meanings of the poem. That is time is cruel and ravaging and it destroys everything, but this poem will enable the young man’s worth or beauty to be free from the mighty power of the“bloody tyrant”time and to live forever. In addition, these meanings are reinforced by the sounds and rhythms.     

On William Blake’s Poem “The Lamb”

William Blake is the British famous painter in the period of the end of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century,He is also one of the most complicated and most special poets in the British literature history.He is also acknowledged as a religious visionary and mystic and one of the leading figure of the Romantic movement.His well-known poem "the lamb" is one in the colletion named Songs of Innocence.Through this poem,the poet sees the life with the child’s pure eyesight and a very world with love,kindness,compassion and happiness is described in it.The author will introduce this poet and analyze his poem "the lamb" with the three "s" literary approach in this paper.Three "s" means sense,sight and sound.     

An Interpretation of Ben’s Function in Intensifying Willy’s Tragedy from Aristotle’s Poetics

The play Death of a Salesman is undoubtedly the most influential play of Arthur Miller which depicts a tragic life of Willy Loman, a travelling salesman, induced by his false American Dream of making a fortune out of business. Unlike many other essays focusing on the hero Willy, this one tries to explore Willy’s dead brother Ben’s function in this play so as to demonstrate that Ben plays an important role in Willy’s life by making Willy’s life more tragic in terms of Aristotle’s tragic theory. The first part of the essay illustrates Ben’s importance to Willy and the second part centers on the way Ben pushes Willy to a more tragic situation.     

On the Wisdoms of Human Life Embodied in Robert Frost’s Poems-A Brief Analysis of Motifs of Robert Frost’s Poems

Robert Frost is one of the famous poets of the 20th century American literature who won the Pulitzer Prize for four times. The reason for his popularity is partially because he employs traditional verse form and iambic pentameter pattern in poem writing, but the most important reason for the reputation of his poems lies in the thematic concern of something universal, such as death and life, love and hate, war and peace, the good and the evil, the wisdom of human life and etc. . A brief analysis will be given in the following text about the wisdoms of human life embodied in Robert Frost’s poems from three aspects: 1. Relaxation and responsibility of man. 2. The decisions in life.     

An Analysis of the Readers’ Roles in the Construction of Meaning in John Donne’s The Flea under Reader-Oriented Theory

Among the sundry studies in China on John Donne’s The Flea,there has been none done from the perspective of Reader-Oriented Theory to probe into the readers’ roles in the construction of meaning.The present article under Wolfgang Iser’s theories,in a further pursuit of the expansion of the gestalt of such studies on the poem,aims at exploring the readers’ active roles in complementing,completing and recreating the textual meaning,and differentiating the implied reader and the actual reader through the poem as well as attempting to fulfill the construction of the reading cognitive model through the interpretation of the conceit the flea.     

“Birds, Beasts and Flowers”——a preliminary study of D.H. Lawrence’s nature view

D.H.Lawrence is one of the most important(as well as controversial)writers in the history of English literature in the 20th century,His works are received with high praise and furious criticism at the same time,and he suffered for it in his lifetime.He wrote poetry throughout most of his life.He was far too prolific and undiscriminating a poet.In this article,through the analysis of the poem collection of D.H.Lawrence’s’ "Birds,Beasts and Flowers",the author try to make a preliminary study of D.H. Lawrence’s nature view.     

Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

As one of T.S.Eliot’s earliest and most famous poem,"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is characterized by typical modernism.It reveals the psyche of the "modern man" in predicament represented by Prufrock who is trapped in a dilemma about whether to make a change of his life or not.Making use of various artistic techniques,the poet successfully explores the theme of the spiritual emptiness and frustration of people in modern western society via the protagonist’s melancholy debate with himself.     

To His Coy Mistress:An Eco-feminism Interpretation

Within the framework of eco-feminist theory,this paper,taking Andrew Marvell’s "To His Coy Mistress" as a specific example,to explain how women and nature are marginalized and reduced to aphasia condition in literature.The paper presents a detailed analysis of the language of the poem,reveals men’s anthropocentric-andocentric attitudes toward nature and women and proposes the decentralization or the relation of "anotherness" as a possible way to reestablish a healthy culture(men)-nature(women) relationship.     

The “Modern Man” in predicament—The Art, the Mood and the Theme of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as"Prufrock", is a poem by T. S. Eliot, Published in Chicago in June 1915, it presents a stream of consciousness in the form of a dramatic monologue, and marked the beginning of Eliot’s career as an in fluential poet. This paper aims at exploring its theme of modern people’s predicament through a detailed analysis of the imagery and fig ures of speech used in the poem. Also, a moderate part will also be given to its stream of consciousness skill in the poem and its contribu tion to the theme of the poem.     

F.Scott.Fitzgerald and His Protagonists' Fascination about Rich Girls: Seen from His Works "The Great Gatsby" and "Winter Dreams"

F.Scott.Fitzgerald was a well known American writer in the 1920s.He worte some works which represented the characteristics of the 1920s America and he was considered as the spokesman for that time period,the Jazz Age..His masterpiece was The Great Gatsby.The novel fully reveals the life and people of the Jazz age,showing the epicurean,indulging,and immoral ethos of the whole American society and people’s fasicination about wealth and enjoyment,looking down upon and deserting the traditional faiths and values.This article discusses F.Scott.Fitzgerald and his protagists’ fascination about rich girls in his two novels The Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams" from the life and love stories of the author and his protagonists,men’s love ideal under the influence of American dream and the Jzaa Age,several characteristivs of love itself.Through this article,we may see the influence of the social faith and social ethos on individual’s love ideal,and the beautiful and wordly aspects about love.     

A Comparative Analysis of the Image of the Road in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Comac McCarthy's The Road

As in many American classics,the road is a central image in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road(1957)and Comac McCarthy’s The Road(2006).This paper intends to carry out a comparative analysis of this image in these two postmodern masterpieces.The paper starts with an investigation of the image in the two works separately and ends with a more comprehensive and comparative study of this topic.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

Phonetic Features of The Road Not Taken——from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics

Having drawn widespread attention and appreciation,Robert Frost’s poem—The Road Not Taken is known to be rich in thematic sensation and meaning.In exploring the enduring charms of this poem,the present paper attempts to analyze it on the phonetic level in perspective of literary stylistics through which the poet enhances the aesthetic beauty in sound.     

Comparative Analysis of Different English Versions of Libai ’s Jing Ye Si

Different English versions of Libai’s Jing Ye Si are regarded as a target in the paper for the concrete expressions of"meaning beauty、sound beauty and form beauty"in translating Chinese poem.The author is going to put forward a aesthetic view for translators and readers to appreciate the English translation of Chinese classic poem.