Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death,love,nature,etc.Her short poem“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun...Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death,love,nature,etc.Her short poem“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”is one receiving relatively few academic discussion.Among the rather few existent studies,many discuss Dickenson’s feminist ideas,religious bewilderment,literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem.This article,instead,gives an interpretation of this poem from an ecocritical perspective.It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on human’s cruelty and indiffer?ence to nature.After a thorough interpretation of Dickenson’s reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem,the article fur?ther explores Dickenson’s attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to support this interpretation.展开更多
Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1...Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955.With the background of southern American family,the play consists of light and shade clues:the former centers on brothers’fighting for property;the latter focuses on hero Brick’s homosexual problem.The analysis of the convert of Brick’s role and thought aims at comprehending to a deep degree how Williams,a homosexual,exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows his profound thinking of life value.展开更多
文摘Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death,love,nature,etc.Her short poem“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”is one receiving relatively few academic discussion.Among the rather few existent studies,many discuss Dickenson’s feminist ideas,religious bewilderment,literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem.This article,instead,gives an interpretation of this poem from an ecocritical perspective.It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on human’s cruelty and indiffer?ence to nature.After a thorough interpretation of Dickenson’s reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem,the article fur?ther explores Dickenson’s attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to support this interpretation.
文摘Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955.With the background of southern American family,the play consists of light and shade clues:the former centers on brothers’fighting for property;the latter focuses on hero Brick’s homosexual problem.The analysis of the convert of Brick’s role and thought aims at comprehending to a deep degree how Williams,a homosexual,exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows his profound thinking of life value.
