Emily Dickinson:An Interrogator of Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of American’s premier poets of the nineteenth century.In both style and content,her verse was,"revolutionary" in her day.Owing to the deep exploration of death and immortality,Emily Dickinson has become a puzzle in literary.As show in her poems,Dickinson’s spiritual journey led her from na?ve nature-mysticism through disappointment,to a sacramental approach to immortality afterlife and further discouragement,culminating in a mature attitude of faithful unknowing and even more interrogating the immortality.This paper will base on the theory of the death and immortality through common people’s fear to death,the essence of death,the significance of death to show the poetess’s whole life-childhood,love,life condition,spiritual contradiction,and mainly her skeptical concept of death and immortality.     

From Death To Death:Some Thoughts about Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway

Based on Indian Camp, the thesis probes into the death complex of Ernest Hemingway from the visual angle of Nick,the protagonist of the novel, death complex shown in Hemingway’s works and Nick, the archetype of Hemingway respectively.     

From Death To Death:Some Thoughts about Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway

Based on Indian Camp, the thesis probes into the death complex of Ernest Hemingway from the visual angle of Nick, the protagonist of the novel, death complex shown in Hemingway’s works and Nick, the ar...     

The Embellishment of Death in Poe’s Poetry

As a famous America poet and short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a lot of poems and short stories during hisshort lifetime. In his short stories, death is usually horrible and mysterious. On the contrary, in many of his poems, death is dealt within forms of beauty. These poems have high delight of the beauty. Obviously, when Poe produced the poems and tales, he adhered todifferent principles and theories. This thesis explains the reasons for the differences between different manifestations of death in Poe’spoetry and tales, in particular, the embellishment of death in Poe’s poetry, such as images, backgrounds, and melody of his poemsassociated with death.     

From "living dead" to "reviving after death"——An Interpretation of The Dead from Gabriel’s Epiphany

James Joyce is one of the greatest pioneers of Modern novel history.The Dead is the most famous story in his early short story collection Dubliners,and is widely recognized as one of the finest short stories in the English language.This study tries to analyze the hero Gabriel’s mind change:from "living dead" to "reviving after death" from his epiphany,indicating that there is merely a delicate line between the two:death is the end of life as well as the beginning of a new life for death actually carries within itself a new life.     

Life versus Death:An Interpretation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.Dalloway

Mrs.Dalloway is one of the famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is perceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are the two protagonists in this novel.From analyzing the relationship of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith in terms of the meaning of life and death,this thesis aims to explore the author’s and the protagonists’ inner conflicts and the significance of life and death.     

Invoking Sympathy Towards the Character Lennie in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men Myrenda Ding

The ending of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men,viewed alone,is not a tragedy at all;while death is involved the life that has been taken is merely that of a murderer and threat to human safety.However,the death of Lenny Small is actually far more tragic when viewed in the context of the novel.This essay will explore some of the ways Steinbeck manipulates the emotions of the reader so that readers syropalhibt?with the"murderer".     

Authentic Existence in Being-toward-Death:A Heideggerian Interpreta-tion on Harry’s Death in“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

From the existential perspective of Martin Heidegger’s theory on death, this paper analyses the protagonist Harry’s death in Hemingway’s story“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, pointing out that facing dire...     

On Alice’s Death in the House of the Seven Gables

Among the chain of mysterious destructions of Pyncheons,Alice’s death arouses divergent critical views in that the death befalls upon a female member of Pyncheon who is depicted as an innocent seventeen-year-old maiden with great beauty,elegance and tenderness.This paper intends to draw a tentative conclusion that Alice is the blameless victim of class conflict by making a close textual analysis of the novel The House.     

Emily Dickinson’s religious Idea and Her View on Death

Death is a common theme of literature and most of writers eulogize noble death to heaven and belittle some souls to heaven.Emily Dickinson,the great American poetess,wrote more than 600 poems about death and immortality with her unique ideas.The paper will analyze Emily Dickinson’s unusual belief about death from her poems and the influence of her growing environment on her.     

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.     

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.     

阅读理解训练:Tax

Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of inlife:death and taxes.Americans do not have a comer on the"death"market,butmany people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support their government.Thereare generally three levels of government in the United States:federal,state and city;     

Jghm rum,ud on the Death-Themed Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper combines the analytical explanation of Dickinson’s death-themed poems with her life experience of religion and death experience to reveal her positive attitude towards life and death.     

The Employment of Symbolism in The Dubliners

The Dubliners is a famous novel by the eminent Irish novelist James Joyce.This book collection begins with new-born life and ends with death.The unity of form and content symbolizes the life process of a human being-from birth to death,there fore we can say that Dubliners is the image of a human being.In this collection,Joyce employs several kinds of symbolic method and symbols play a very important role in the implied meanings of these short stories.     

The Pictorial Power of Language in e.e.Cummings’Poetry

e.e. Cummings’Poetry’s theme is the cycle of life, and"black against white"could be indicating life death versus life. It shows that even though a leaf falling may be an indication of death, falling of leaves is an integral part of the whole life cycle of the tree. !blac may seem like a simple mess of words, but in reality is much more complex than that.     

Dorian Gray:From Eros to Death

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel of Oscar Wilde. In the book, Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry all deserve wide analyses. It has also attracted a large number of readers because of its beautiful language, affluent images, dramatic plot and strong sense of aestheticism. However, besides from such perspective of art, comparatively, seldom are there analyses focusing on the hero’s mental process to reveal his corruption. In this paper, the author attempts to explain Dorian Gray’s gradual mental erosion through Freudian theory of Eros and study of death instinct. Besides his ideas of hedonism which originates from his Eros, the death of Basil Hallward further reveals his cruel psychology which is part of Eros. And his final tragedy reflects his death instinct. By specific exploration, it is discovered that Dorian’s ending is mainly caused by his Eros, which calls for his cruel mentality to commit crimes and later leads to his death instinct with development.     

The Function of Death in Jane Eyre

The essay is on the novel of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte.Jane was an orphan,finally she developed into an intellectual,confident and independent woman.She married her true love and realized her dream at last.During the period of her growth,many deaths appeared in Jane’s life.These deaths play an important part in the novel.This essay will discuss the function of death in the novel.The author’s view of death was expressed through Jane’s life,love and her character.Through the arguments in the novel,we can draw a conclusion:death is not fearful.Love is eternal.We should learn how to love-love everything around us and cherish everything that you own.     

A Brief Interpretation of the Key Elments In The Waste Land

The Waste Land was a poem of despair for the 1920s and 1930s, and it is full of images of solitude, ugliness, bleakness and death, which unfolds to us the crisis of the western civilation after the wor...     

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.