Faithlessness in John Donne’s Love Poetry

It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers’fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne’s love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne’s love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne’s doubt about love.The discussion of love’s fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne’s sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.     

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.     

The Function of Colour in Ezra Pound’s Imagist Poetry

This paper is to explore the function of colour in Ezra Pound’s Imagist poetry.As the position of image in poetry is raised,colour,as a part making up image,play a much more positive role in Pound’s Imagist poems by defining the image to be more concrete and definite and reinforcing the theme directly.Pound’s Imagist poetry includes his typical short Imagist poems and his poems in Cathay.     

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.     

Alchemical Imagery in Donne`s Poems

John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical imagery in Donne`s poems and how Donne employs it for his poetic purpose through textual analyses.And this paper aims to give a panoramic view of the alchemical motif in Donne`s poems.     

Nature,the Source of William Wordsworth’s Inspiration

William Wordsworth has been considered a great Romantic poet in English literature.His thoughts and poems have been researched by literary critics from different aspects.This paper argues that nature is the source of his inspiration by analyzing the background of the poet’s life and his famous poems.     

On the Self-portrait of Modern Men in T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock

T.S.Eliot,a great American poet in the twentieth century,is a spokesman of the Imagist Movement.He emphasizes describing the rotten Western civilization and the decayed morals after the First World War.Prufrock that T.S.Eliot described in his early poems is timid,hesitant,sensitive,anxious,lack of will and confidence;This paper will analyze the detailed behaviors of the characters in Eliot’s early poems and reveal the major image of modern men more clearly.     

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.     

Slightly Analyze the Historical Causes of Walt. Whitman’s Democratic Poems

Walt·Whitman was one of the famous poets in American literary field. He is remembered by his masterpiece-Leaves of Grass, which composes a lot of his democratic ideas. His democratic poems and his writing styles have their historical background which helped form his democratic ideas.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

A Brief Study of Wordsworth’s Romantic Poetry in Light of Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism is a new-born literary criticism that delves into the exposition of the relationship between human beings and other specimen in nature from the literary angle as well as observes and discloses in detail and with sincerity the effect of literature in the human activities and natural environment. The thesis combines the theory of ecocriticism with romanticism to study Wordsworth’s romantic poetry from an ecological perspective as Wordsworth,the great“worshipper of nature”can also be called an ecological critic since many of his poems are focused on ecological themes and he expresses his passion on an ecological basis. Going through the thesis is the most fundamental concept of ecocriticism: ecological holism. Supporting this backbone is analyzes of selected paradigmatic romantic poems by Wordsworth.     

My Understanding of Wordsworth’s‘Immortality’in His“Ode:Intimation of Immortality”

William Wordsworth was the representative of the British "Lake poets" In his poems he aimed at simplicity and purity of the language,fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.He transformed his observation of the landscape into the revelation of the beauty of nature in poetry,and thus expressed his nature philosophy.In this article the author briefly analyses the organization of his poem: "Ode: Intimation of Immortality" and mainly elaborates her understanding of the poet’s na-ture-philosophy in four points:(a) Man is sensitive to all natural influences in childhood.(b) Nature has a moral and spiritual sig-nificance and helps the poet understand the mystery of human life.(c) Life is but a stage.(d) All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.     

Uncertainty in Meaning and Possibility of Multi-interpretation--Reading Poems Written by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams is noted for the simplicity of his verse form and clear interpretation of its meaning.In this paper,the writer tends to unfold that the seemingly simplicity of Williams’poems reveals his deep concern about the modern life.He draws our attention to the particular scene or thing which itself abounds in different meanings.Thus it enables his poems open to different interpretations.     

一个驱之不去的鬼魂和他的充满鬼魂的文学世界

As one of the most tragic figures in the history of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe created the themes of morbid love, omnipresent death, transient beauty, decadence and horror. Death always accompanies him in his poems and stories. His interest is mainly in the people‘s mind where he created a fancy and horrible world.     

Samson:A Vivid Reflection of Milton

Milton,a great English poet,was a whole man,integrated in both his art and his moral.He prepared himself for many years to create some famous religious poems.Samson Agonistes,the last great creation of his old age,was one of them.Samson was an ancient Israeli hero of the Old Testament.Milton and Samson have a lot in common.This thesis is trying to analyze the similarities between the Milton and Samson from three aspects.Namely,they have the same unhappy marriage.Both of them came to know more about life through bitter experiences and were blind in the later part of their lives with strong determinations to destroy their enemies.     

On the Dramatic Features in Robert Browning’s Poems of Dramatic Monologue

This paper explored the three dramatic features intrinsic in Robert Browning’s poems of dramatic monologue, namely, the employment of first-person point of view, the use of irony, and the intricate psychological exploration and vivid characterization. Such features are crucial in the successful presentation of various human nature and experience with profundity, making his poems an enduring classic in the English literature.     

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Li Bai was one of the most famous poet in China. 1All Chinese children know him.They like his poems, 2and don't like his habit of drinking too much wine. 3One evening he was taking a walk at the edge of a 4lake.The moon was shining bright.He wished to write 5a poem about the moon.He steped into a small6boat,and let it to float on the Lake.He got 7     

A Thematic Study of "Passion as Defense" in Yeats’Later Poems

"Passion as Defense" is one of the most profound themes in Yeats’later poems,Yeats’ theory of passion as defense essentially suggests the emotional commitment to make life habitable in a disastrous world.Yeats in this sense employs passion to contend against pathos.With the victory over the tragedy of being,Yeats display the heroic quality as poet and man.