The Distinctive Feature of Nashe＇s Poetry Spring——A Study of Spring

Thomas Nashe‘s Spring is a lyric poem extracted from his comedy “Will Summer‘s Testament”. It is a poem of iambic pentameter. The whole poem is made up of three stanzas. Simple and plain as its language is , it is the language of common speech of his own time, ingeniously chosen, refined, modified and heightened. The author‘s use of a combination of alliteration, mediate and end rhyme in its rhyme scheme makes the poem read as smoothly and briskly as singing a song. His arrangement of four rhythm or beating schemes in a single poem makes the poem confirm to no conventional pattern. His employment of many rhetorical devices makes the poem vivid, imaginative and peffecdve.     

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 “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.     

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.     

On Swift’s Satiric Vision in Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift

Up till now only a few papers have been found to analyze the poem Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift.It is really rare seen the author himself has the poetic commentary on his own death.Some information about Swift and some brilliant passages and the language specific in the poem Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift are expounded.Some scholarly researches of the poem in the world are also conceded.     

Deconstructing the Duke and the Duchess in “ My Last Duchess”

Usually people will see a cruel,autocratic duke and a silent,mild-mannered late duchess in " My Last Duchess".However,after deconstructing Browning’ s contradictory use of binary oppositions in this poem,it will unfold the ambiguous beauty of the poem and give us a brand new interpretation of the Duke and the Duchess.     

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.     

Comments on "After Apple-Picking"

The poem describes a farmer’s dilemma after apple-picking.Actually,it is a perplexity between the real world and the ideal world.The article analyzes the poem from four aspects:the introduction of the writer,the content,the structure and the versification.     

Stylistic Analysis of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

This paper studies a short poem by Robert Frost at the macro level,examining the textual and interpersonal grammatical metaphor.Then a closer examination at micro level looks at lexical features,phonological features and analyses their contribution to the meaning of the poem.     

The Theme of The Second Coming

The second coming is a master work of William Butler Yeats which is also one of the most thematically obscure poems.By analyzing the poem based on Yeats’philosophy of occultism and historical background as well as the Bible,this paper states the theme of this poem is that western civilization has been destroyed by wars with the consequence of the appearance of anticivilization;then,a new civilization will come into being.     

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.     

A Formalistic Analysis of Poe’s Poem-"Annabel Lee"

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe’s criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe’s poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.     

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.     

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...     

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.     

The Betrayal in The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde’s poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde’s meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.     

Story Time and Narrative Time-On the Time in When We Two Parted

As narratives are composed of the content encoded and the medium giving concrete shape to them,narratives are inseparably intertwined with temporalities,those of story time and narrative time.In the poem When We Two Parted,there is the co-existence of story time and narrative time.The story time covers three sections depicting separately the past events,the present and the future.They are boiled down into the poem in thirty two lines in total,which gives rise to the variance between duration of story time and duration of narrative time.The durations endow the poem with distinguishable narrative effects.     

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.     

Loss of Image in Translating Chinese Poem into English

The process of translating Chinese poem into English is actually the process of the transference of image.Image is the soul of poetry.In translating the poem there often exists a phenomenon that is loss of image.So there are some questions to be discussed,such as:the definition of image,the reasons of loss of image,and the way to avoid losing image.This thesis will discuss the questions from three aspects:language difference,culture difference and factors of translator.