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.     

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.     

English Metaphysical Ideas Reflected in Anne Bradstreet’s poetry

The paper is to explore the English Metaphysical ideas reflected in Anne bradstreet’s first poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. The whole paper is devided into three parts , the first part is to introduce English Metaphysical ideas and Anne’s first and only published poetry before death,The second one is to analyze the reflection of the English Metaphysical ideas in Anne’s first poetry in terms of the themes, the images and the rhetorical devices of the poetry. the last one is the conclusion of the essay .     

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.     

Identity and Community in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Toni Morrison’s Sula was published in 1973.It portrays a black woman who quests for self under the strick doctrines of black community.The novel puts forward a complexed contradiction of identity and black community in the historical context of black community and protagonist Sula’s change,rejection,awareness of self and death.The overall challenges of Sula pays her life as a price.Morrison,through this piece of work,reveals the conflicts between Sula’s self and black community.Sula’s tragic ending voices an unchanged fact that self must be developed within the black community.     

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.     

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.     

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 Analysis of Willy’s Death in Existentialism

This thesis analyses Death of a Salesman from the perspective of existentialism.By probing into the story with Sartre’s theory of freedom,this thesis concludes that the protagonist’s living environment and his choice are both responsible for his death.But it also tells us no matter how difficult our situation is,we always have freedom to choose.Everyone can live a mean ingful life through his choice.     

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.     

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".     

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...     

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 sevente...     

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.     

The Fated Death of Tess

The theme of this essay is about the fated deaths of Tess.The emphasis is’inevitability’.Tess’s Death is mainly due to the social influence and man-made factors.Because of the low social status and moral conceptions,there is no living room left for Tess.Her parents push her get closer to her tragedy as well.Alec and Angel are the two persons who directly and indirectly cause Tess’s death.In addition,there are also some subjective causes for her doom.The symbolic red in the novel intentionally indi cates the’inevitability’of her death.     

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.     

An Analysis of the Causes of Catherine’s Tragedy

Tragedy is an everlasting theme of Hai Mingwei’s literary works,every character can not save themselves from defeat and death.The article will probe the reasons of Catherine’s tragic fate to make people rethink life and reveal the aesthetic significance of tragedy.     

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 Difference in the Main Conflict between Shakespeare's Hamlet and Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet

Famous Chinese director Feng Xiaogang made a film The Banquet in 2006,which is adapted from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.However,accounting for the background and cultural difference,the main conflict shown in this film is totally different from Hamlet.The paper will compare Hamlet’s reaction to his father’s death with the plot of the film to illustrate the difference of main conflict between Hamlet and The Banquet.