The Comparison of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Baima’s Your Beauty

Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant playwrights and poets in the Middle Ages. Shakespeare ’s sonnets created dur?ing 1592 to 1598 is not only one of the greatest achievements of his, but also a gr...     

The Triumph of Poetry over Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Since the study of Shakespeare’s sonnets came to China,people come to an agreement that there is more than one theme running through these sonnets.The most popular and well-accepted ones are singing for fairness,kindness and truth,singing for friendship,and singing for love.Among all these themes,time,running through these sonnets from the beginning to the end,is absolutely one of the most important.In the eyes of the poet,time is cruel and destructive;however,he figures out poetry as a key way to triumph over it.This article attempts to argue for the triumph of poetry over time in Shakespeare’s sonnets based on an analysis to the poetry.     

To Be Is to Create—Essence of Life in the First 17 Sonnets of Shakespeare

It is generally acknowledged that the first 17 sonnets of Shakespeare is a set of poems to urge a young man to get married and have a baby so as to immortalize his beauty.However,these sonnets mirror Shakespeare’s mediations on life and death.Man is by nature mortal being,and time is the enemy of life.To endure beauty long,man can fight against time by means of child-bearing and poetic creation.The first 17 sonnets address the theme:the essence of life is to create.     

Political Reality and Nature in Shakespeare’s King Lear

King Lear is considered to be Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.Using analysis of the play and the contemporary politics of Jacobe an time,this paper examines how this play serves its traditional role as a"mirror for princess"play and how a broader dimension provided by a Christianized natural law is available for the exploration of possibilities of human experiences.     

Modernity in Frost’s "Fire and Ice"

Robert Frost is one of the best poets in the 20th century.His philosophical poem "Fire and Ice" is to be discussed as a piece representing modernity.By analyzing some specific elements,this essay tries to convince that the poem is a perfect example of Frost’s unique style-traditional forms combined with modern thoughts.     

A Comparative Study of Nature’s Subjectivity in Walden and Tang Poems

Thoreau’s Walden and Chinese Tang Poems both attach great importance to nature,devoting large paragraphs to the depiction of it.The significance of this phenomenon is discussed in this paper.Based on the method of close reading and comparative study,it is found that nature,portrayed by Thoreau and Tang poets share one important character,that is,nature assumes subjectivity as an individual being.     

Corpus-based Analysis on Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare’s Works

Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews’ "Bible" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare’s works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word "Jew"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare’s works.     

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.     

The Comparative Analysis of The River-Merchant’s Wife:A Letter

"The River-Merchant’s Wife:A Letter",written by the great poet Li Bai,is the most prestigious version among the translations of Chinese ancient poetry by Ezra Pound and has been accepted as one of the classics of American literature.The poem exquisitely expresses the changes of the wife’s mind at different phases.Martin and Rose’s Appraisal Theory provides us with a theoretical framework for the analysis of the different realizations of the sentimental resources of the poem in the original and its English version.     

The Manifestation of Sublimity in Li Bai’s Poem Cataract on Mount Lu

Longinus’s On the Sublime holds a uniquely unparalleled position in Western critical theories. By analyzing Li Bai’s well-known poem Cataract on Mount Lu from the perspective of sublimity, attempt is made to appreciate the ancient Chinese poems by using Western critical theory and thus derive another kind of aesthetic beauty.     

The Techniques of Shakespeare’s Persuasion:Comments on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1-17

In Sonnets 1-17,Shakespeare persuades the Fair Young Man to beget a child so that he can conquest Time and preserve his beauty.Shakespeare’s persuasion is vivid and convincing.This paper analyzes the techniques of his persuasion from three aspects:syllogism,various images and appealing to the emotion.     

All Walk Free:Portia’ s Illiteracy of Law

In Shakespeare’ s Merchant of Venice,Portia is portrayed as a legal expert.Considerable scholarly work has been devoted to the discussion of the play,and Portia’ s ruling appears to be supported by a majority of scholarly commentary.However,a number of important legal issues regarding the contract represented in the play require immediate attention.This article attempts to re-evaluate Portia’ s ruling and the conventional views on Portia as a legal expert by considering the issues in question within a recent framework of law,and will argue that Portia’ s role as a legal expert is questionable.Antonio,Bassanio,and Shylock can all ’ walk free’.     

On Implicit Information Translation of Shakespeare’ s Works from the Perspective of Relevance Theory:In the Case of Zhu’ s Translation and Liang’ s Translation

The Relevance Theory put forward by Sperber and Wilson not only gives rise to a new research on pragmatics, but also provides a new theoretic foundation for other disciplines. Gutt applies the theory to translation and gives a relevance-theoretic account of translation. The relevance-theoretic communicative model provides rational explanation for existence of the implicit information. The appropri ate treatment of the implicit information is consistent with readers’ cognitive environment and expectation. Human communication de pends on not only the text, but also the inferential context. The adequate contextual effect is derived from the correct judgment and infer ence of the implicit information in communication. Therefore, the translator should match the original author’ s intention with target text readers’ expectation to make sure that they yield adequate contextual effects with appropriate processing efforts. Implicitness is one of the features of Shakespeare’ s works. It is more demanding for the translators to catch and transfer to the target readers the implicit information. Zhu Shenghao and Liang Shiqiu, the two famous translators adopt different translation strategies to deal with the implicit information in the works.     

A Latent Complaint in Milton’s "On His Blindness"

John Milton’s "On His Blindness" is one of his renowned sonnets,which takes on the unique characteristics in terms of style and theme."On His Blindness" was always regarded as the one that reflected Milton’s life and illustrated the heavy influence of Puritanism,in which Milton presented his calm attitude toward the blindness and deep reverence for God.However,if it is read between lines,more ideas about Milton’s confusion and latent complaint will be felt.This paper will adopt the idea of close reading of New Criticism to analyze what has been missed and misread through years in John Milton’s "On His Blindness".     

On the Traditional Architecture Couplets to Create the Type of Space

Couplets financial literature,calligraphy and seal carving is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.To create a space of traditional architecture couplets attaches great importance to the overall order of;convey the connotation,but also to convey a visual space;Joining Sentences people across time and space of unlimited imagination,greatly sublimation of the people’s psychological space and beyond time and spaceextension,easy to create an image space.The couplet has become to create one of the indispensable element of traditional Chinese architectural conception of space.     

Dissimilarities Between Gary Snyder’s Zen and Chinese Zen Thought

Gary Snyder is a famous American poet in the 1960s.His works often reflect Zen thought,which highly influenced the Beat Generation of that time,and even the whole western society.This article attempts to discuss some of the possible aspects in which Snyder’s Zen diverts from Chinese Zen thought.To find out the answer,four of Snyder’s poetry collections were mainly consulted,as well as information about the environment that he’d been living in.The discrepancy this article will show case is three-folded:first,what Snyder pursued might be"square Zen",which is different from Chinese Zen;second,his poems integrated some ideas from Indian folklores,thus contradicting that of Zen;third,giving consideration to his western background and specific historical environment,he might misinterpret Chinese Zen thought unconsciously or intentionally.This is an area which so far no current studies about Snyder have probed into,so the results are just tentative and exploratory.     

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.     

Study on the Reasons of Western Festivals’ Popularity in China

With the development of reformation in China and the expanding of foreign exchanges,as the main composition of western culture,western festivals become a fashion in China.It has a special and far-reaching influence on our native festival culture and the young greatly.While many people especially young people celebrate western festivals,the Chinese traditional festivals seem fading out.This is an urgent problem that needs to be solved.This thesis is closely tracking the trend of the modern time and grasps this urgent and universal problem to conduct the research.On the basis of the investigation and analysis,this thesis aims to find out the underlying reasons of western festivals’ popularity in China and offer some sensible and effective corresponding countermeasures to this problem.     

The Application of Peter Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory to the Translation of Chinese Historical Allusions

Chinese historical allusion is the essence of traditional culture,and its structure is simple and far-reaching,but literal translation can not let foreign readers understand and accept.Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory is based on the point of the target language to deliver information,make smooth and clear translations to the target language readers.The applica tion of Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory to the translation of Chinese historical allusions can reduce the commu nication barriers of foreign readers.     

Foregrounded Beauty: A Brief Analysis of Cummings’ Typical Poems from the Perspective of Stylistics

E. E. Cummings is one of the representatives of American modern experimental poets whose poems are well-known for the unique style. Cummings endeavors to make his poems be different from other poets’. He broke the traditional way of writing poems, invented in the changing of lines of the poem and the spelling of the words in the poem, thus to make his personal poem style distinctive. Therefore, standing on the stylistic point of view, this paper makes a brief analysis on Cummings’ typical poems from foregrounding perspective.