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.     

Preliminary Evaluation ＂My last Duchess＂

"My last Duchess" is not only Robert Browning's masterpiece, but also his most well-known famous article. The way his writing is a dramatic monologue, it is based on the assumption characters that written in first person tone poems.There is a fictional speaker, one or more listener in such poetry. The most significant feature is the presence of three dramatic elements: the dramatic speaker, the silent listener, and the dramatic scenes. In the three, the most crucial element is the speaker. When the speaker is speaking, at the same time display poetry plot, characters and scenes through the hero's mouth.     

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.     

On the Translation of “Gold”&“Jade” in Chinese Poetry

Poetry is a precious part of traditional Chinese civilization.In the times of globalization,an increasing number of for eigners become interested in Chinese poetry.Hence,translating Chinese poetry into English and other languages is an arduous task for translators.Cultural image is a special cultural phenomenon in ancient Chinese poetry.Its proper translation will have a direct impact on the transmission of the artistic conception of poem,affecting the target-language readers’appreciation of the po em.In poetry,the images"gold"and"jade"whose cultural connotations have covered many areas such as politics,etiquette,reli gion,belief,custom,esthetical consciousness and so on,are indispensable parts of poetry translation.Therefore,this essay will anal yse the translation of images"gold"and"jade"in poetry under the cross-cultural perspective.     

Stylistic Analysis on Foregrounding of Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is a great poet in American literature.Because I could not stop for Death is one of her poems.Based on the theory of stylistics,this paper analyzes the poem from the perspective of foregrounding.The stylistic features are analyzed from "overregularity" and "deviation" respectively.The stylistic analysis will be helpful for the readers to understand the poem and appreciate the unique wrting style of the poet.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Beauty in the Harmony of Conflicts-An Appreciation of Keats’Ode to a Nightingale

Keats’Ode to a Nightingale ranks as a poetic masterpiece through ages.This paper analyzes the conflicting feelings in the poem and explores the beauty in the harmony of these conflicts:the imaginative world and the real world,the desire to fly away with the nightingale and the unwillingness to desert the human world,immortality of art and transience of human life.     

A Brief Analysis of the Poem "Spring" by Thomas Nashe

It is well known that English poems are as rich and vivid as Chinese poems. In this short paper, we intend to give a brief analysis on the poem "Spring" by Thomas Nashe, and discuss how the English poet achieves his success in depicting a beautiful picture of spring in this short poem.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

The Language Features of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

As a unique feature of literature, poem brings readers music beauty, image beauty, visual beauty as well as symbolic beauty. Robert Frost is an American contemporary poet who is good at stylistic feature of poems, especially in macroscopic organization, rhetorical methods, grammatical metaphor, vocabulary, rhythmic feature, and semantic relations. Generally, sound is related to phonetics and phonology. Patterns of sound can create melodious effect in poetry, and sometimes a single vowel or consonant will make the verse or even the particular poem significant. Sometimes musical or incantatory effects are achieved through devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance and rhythm. A stylistic analysis of Robert Frost’s famous poem"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"is given, which mainly focused on its language features. Through the excellent choice of words and organization of sound, Frost makes the simplest pieces into meaningful poems with beautiful melody and brings readers refreshing sense, flatus of life, tranquility and geniality.     

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.     

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.     

From the Analysis of Daffodils,Studies are on William Wordsworth’s Sense of Loneliness and Solitude

Daffodils,a distinguished classic of William Wordsworth’s lyric poems,portrays the picturesque scenery of daffodils in their full blossoms and his meditations and reminiscences of that experience later on.From the analysis of this poem which serves as a representative of Romantic lyrics,this paper attempts to expound the poet’s sense of loneliness and solitude through his sincere reflections upon the nature,which in turn accomplishes his spiritual experience of self-transcendence.