Implicit Love and Passionate Love-Contrast the Diction in "Song To Celia" by Ben Jonson and that in "The Canonization" by John Donne

Love is a permanent theme in the world’s history of literature.With different dictions(choice of words),poets can portray diverse images of love,thus leaving completely distinct impression on the readers’ minds.By analyzing and contrasting the diction in "Song To Celia" by Ben Jonson and that in "The Canonization" by John Donne,this essay aims to illustrate that different dramatic effects could be achieved with different choices of words in creative writing,and diction could be a representative symbol of a poet’s writing style.     

Love in Death-A Stylistic Analysis of Rossetti’s Song

Rossetti’s Song is a wonderful love poem. Its uniqueness lies in addressing love in the context of death. A stylistic exami?nation is made on the levels of phonology, lexis, and syntax, aiming to inter...     

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.     

Emily Dickinson and Her Works

Love is one of the themes of Dickinson’s poetry. Love is both sweet and painful, both strong and lingering described in her works. In the poem "Wild Nights: Wild Nights!" the speaker reveals all her innermost feelings to her love. Love is expressed in an unabashed manner. These bitter and sweet interwoven contradictions constitute the tone of her love of poetry.     

Stylistic Analysis of Rossetti’s Song with the Technique of Deviation

Song is one of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s most outstanding death poems,dealing with the main themes that she concerns:death,love and religion.This paper tries to use the technique of deviation that refers to violations to the standard language and readers’expectations to interpret this poem’s stylistic features from the aspects of grammar,phonology,image,theme and narrative point of view.Through the stylistic analysis with the method of deviation,its solemn theme is exposed clearly.     

I Love "Ode to the West Wind

<正>"Ode to the West Wind" written by Percy Bysshe Shelley is an excellent romantic poem in the 19th century and the best lyric of the poet. In the poem Shelley expresses his great love for nature, praises the West Wind for its spirit of destroying old things and being pregnant with new things. By evoking the great force of the West Wind, he expresses his determination to fight against dying things and disseminate new ideas with his Poetry. This point is well shown, especially in the first and the last two stanzas.     

Interpret Three Kinds of John Donne's Love Poetry

John Donne is the representative of the metaphysical in the literary history. Song and Sonnets are love poems which express Donne’s love outlook and his attitude towards woman. In Song and Sonnets, the most well-known poems are: "Song" ("Go and Catch a Falling Star"), "The Flea," "The Sun Rising" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." This paper divides his love poetry into three kinds. Through close reading, on one hand, we can understand him and his poems better; on the other hand we can explore his love outlook better.     

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.     

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.     

The Appreciation of English Poem-Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty:But Was Scarce”

This paper aims to expound the relationship of beauty and truth,death and eternity expressed in the poem "I Died for Beauty--But Was Scarce" through analysis it and taste the charm of simplicity,and the charm of rhetoric in the poem.     

Loss of Faith in Mathew Arnold’s Poem Dover Beach

The poem by Mathew Arnold is filled with a sense of sadness,expressing the poet’s bitter disappointment over modern civilization in which meaningless wars are fought for meaningless causes.Then the poet finally turns to love as the saving emotion in the poem.With analyses of the poem in different areas,the paper discuses the crises facing people at that time as the theme of the poem.     

The Erasure of Signifiers and Refusal of Signification in Philip Larkin’s Poem“High Window”

This paper tries to analyze Philip Larkin’s poem"High Window"from a deconstructive perspective. It is to show that in the poem the key words/signifiers are always under erasure, and thus the chain of signification is endless since the poem is self-deconstructing. Then, the paper argues that the linguistic features of the poem paradoxically meaningful in the sense that it reflects the poet’s skepticism and anxiety.     

Death and Regeneration:On D. H. Lawrence’s Bavarian Gentians

As probably the most misread writer of the 20th century, D. H. Lawrence was not only a great novelist, but also a great poet, who should have shared the same importance as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot."Bavarian Gentians"is one of his masterpieces, which was written in the last few months of his life along with some other poems on death, heaven and hell, including The Ship of Death, Glory of Darkness and Song of Death. The mythological poem, a bit mystic and surreal, embodies the view of Lawrence on death. This paper is trying to give a brief analysis on the images and theme of the poem.     

Stylistic Analysis of Whitman’S Poem O Captain!My Captain!

The poem O Captain! My Captain! is a good poem written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman. It is a eulogy written on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In this poem the poet expresses his sadness at the death of the great leader and expresses his great love of his beloved leader. This paper is to have a stylistic analysis of the poem by observing its phonological, lexical, semantic and syntactic features.     

The Analysis of the Poem Arms and the Boy

Using the method of stylistics to analyze Wilfred Owen’s "Arms and the boys" stylistic features of the poem.There are three levels of detailed analysis of the foregrounding feature of the poem:voice,rhythm and rhetoric.The theme of the poem is "the tragedy of war",demonstrating by onomatopoeia,alliteration,and other rhymes in the form element combination and the use of personification.     

Anglo-Saxon Themes,Ideas,and Techniques of Expression Reflected in The Wanderer

The poem The Wanderer was one of finest of the Old English laments,whose theme,ideas and literary techniques were typical of the Anglo-Saxon period.The study explained how Anglo-Saxon themes,ideas,and techniques of expression exhibited themselves in the poem.The findings suggest that the theme of the poem which reflected the Anglo-Saxon value system,and the techniques of expression presented as corroboration,all contributed to central ideas of the poem:"beasts of battle"motif,achievements of wisdom,traveling seas,exile,heroic ideal,loyalty to the lord,kinsmanship,and fates of men.Those ideas were rooted in the emerging Christianity.     

A Comparative Image Study of two Love Songs——The Sun Rising by John Donne and The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot

The Sun Rising is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of John Donne.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is known as the first Modernist poem of T.S Eliot.This paper mainly aims to analyze the strikingly unconventional images use in the two poems,and make comments on their effect on expressing the poet emotions.     

Time and Consciousness in T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

The relationship between time and consciousness is what T.S.Eliot concerns much in his early modernist poem The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock.This paper is an analysis of the way Eliot employs the stream of consciousness technique to create a typical Western modern man who suffers greatly from meaningless life and spiritual crisis.