Poetry is one of the most important literary forms in English literature.Love is an eternal theme among poems of different periods.Influenced by different social backgrounds,the poets express their strong feelings fro...Poetry is one of the most important literary forms in English literature.Love is an eternal theme among poems of different periods.Influenced by different social backgrounds,the poets express their strong feelings from different perspectives.By employing the methods of literature review and comparative study,this paper attempts to explore their images,themes and other literary characteristics,which contributes to better understanding about the love theme.展开更多
Died just last January,J.D.Salinger is an American writer widely beloved,mostly by adolescent readers.While his most famous novel,The Catcher in the Rye,was controversial at first when publicized,his other work Franny...Died just last January,J.D.Salinger is an American writer widely beloved,mostly by adolescent readers.While his most famous novel,The Catcher in the Rye,was controversial at first when publicized,his other work Franny and Zooey is controversial even till today.While some people regard it as a true gem,others think it's only a stinker.I will,in this article,bring its theme out of surface by citing extracts and analysizing them and give the reasons why I consider it a masterpiece.展开更多
The current research attempts to explore the main themes of Lawrence's masterpiece Sons and Lovers from five the following aspects:Man/woman Love,the maturation of an artist,class conflict,Industrial life Vs.natur...The current research attempts to explore the main themes of Lawrence's masterpiece Sons and Lovers from five the following aspects:Man/woman Love,the maturation of an artist,class conflict,Industrial life Vs.nature and Opposite forces:light and dark.It is great hope that this paper will make a small contribution to assist anyone who appreciates Sons and Lovers.展开更多
The present paper is a stylistic analysis of the novel The Old Man and the Sea from functional perspective.It places context of situation and modified transitivity into stylistic analysis.The paper aims to put functio...The present paper is a stylistic analysis of the novel The Old Man and the Sea from functional perspective.It places context of situation and modified transitivity into stylistic analysis.The paper aims to put functional linguistics into practice and offer a new insight into the novel.It first gives a situational description of the novel and collects the data accordingly,and then analyzes the materiality of the samples in detail.By comparing the four samples,the paper first works out the plot,which is considered congruent with the principle of data collection;and then it discovers double levels of literary themes of the novel——A man may be destroyed but not defeated on one level,and the relationship between human being and non-human being on the highest level.展开更多
Beauty and the beast,first published in France in1740,is the most symbolic and classical fairytale after Cinderella.Although time is flying,some basic motif the story embodies still keep alive and continues touching r...Beauty and the beast,first published in France in1740,is the most symbolic and classical fairytale after Cinderella.Although time is flying,some basic motif the story embodies still keep alive and continues touching readers of generations.It must bear something valuable in this work.Here this essay will try to interpret it from the perspective of Christian,hoping to help us have a fresh understanding of the classic literature works.展开更多
American society went through some especially speedy and drastic changes, after the World War II. Its transformation into a significant superpower as well as the horrors of the recent conflict is reflected in specific...American society went through some especially speedy and drastic changes, after the World War II. Its transformation into a significant superpower as well as the horrors of the recent conflict is reflected in specific American novels and in the writing of certain elite novelists. They focus on human loss and a consequent search for identity and problematic belonging in a world of prejudice and hostility. This search for identity and aspiration to conformity with the new change is among of the main features of Salinger＇s the Catcher in the Rye, Ellison＇s Invisible Man and Vonnegut＇s Slaughterhouse Five. The paper focuses on certain similarities in theme and form which link these three novels and examines the extent of presentation of the style of narration set in motion by all three writers.展开更多
Canadian classical works are becoming more and more popular all over the world. People began to understand and mar-vel at the Canadian literatures that are quite life-meaningful and full of lessons and tips for lives....Canadian classical works are becoming more and more popular all over the world. People began to understand and mar-vel at the Canadian literatures that are quite life-meaningful and full of lessons and tips for lives. The classic works in CanadianLiteratures that advantageously elaborated the characteristics of sublimation under the background for Canada's particular history,geography, climate, religion, demographic factors, generation, development and continuous construction of Canadian literatures.The greatest masterpieces can highlight powerfully the certain mindset of Canadian and the permanent theme for Canadian Litera-ture: keep working hard for survival and love bravely. Meanwhile, modern people will learn a lot from reading Canadian classic lit-erary works.展开更多
从内容上看,这个话题与“Do you see anydifference in the kind of friendship you can havewith a man and with a womall?”有相近之处,却更进了一层,所问也更加直接,像是一个自然进行中的对话。我们向某人提问,一般都是由表及里,层...从内容上看,这个话题与“Do you see anydifference in the kind of friendship you can havewith a man and with a womall?”有相近之处,却更进了一层,所问也更加直接,像是一个自然进行中的对话。我们向某人提问,一般都是由表及里,层层推进的。若两人一见面。展开更多
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is known as the first masterpiece of modernism poetry. Its protagonist Prufrock is not a concrete single person, but an abstraction of all modem men in trouble. He is alienated by w...The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is known as the first masterpiece of modernism poetry. Its protagonist Prufrock is not a concrete single person, but an abstraction of all modem men in trouble. He is alienated by women, time and space, and hence he is paralyzed and helpless. The use of dramatic monologue and stream of consciousness, quotation and allusions, objective correlative and startling imagery, irony and anti-climax, refrain and rhythm, fragmentation and juxtaposition not only deepens the theme, but also establishes Eliot＇s reputation as a leading modernist poet.展开更多
Emily Dickinson is the most famous legendary lyric poetess of the United States. She perceived death as a gradual pro cess with different functions. In the theme of love,desirable love,treacly love and miserable love ...Emily Dickinson is the most famous legendary lyric poetess of the United States. She perceived death as a gradual pro cess with different functions. In the theme of love,desirable love,treacly love and miserable love are accordingly analyzed,and the paper interprets nature from perspectives of universal images. Through elaborate interpretation and analysis,the paper shows the female poet's original insights on death,love and nature,shocking readers' mind,motivating more researches on her poetic themes,and citing more references for further study on Emily Dickinson and her poetry.展开更多
Love of Life,a short story about life and survival,is still well-read and accepted by readers today.This thesis aims at a thematic discussion of the story and its significant implications.The story shows that man’s l...Love of Life,a short story about life and survival,is still well-read and accepted by readers today.This thesis aims at a thematic discussion of the story and its significant implications.The story shows that man’s living force is amazing,great,and in?vincible,and that life is short and precious to us all,but what is more precious is the power of faith to a meaningful life.展开更多
Ernest Hemingway,the famous American writer,was one of the representatives of "the lost generation". He was good at depicting the life and the inner world of "the lost generation" ,especially the y...Ernest Hemingway,the famous American writer,was one of the representatives of "the lost generation". He was good at depicting the life and the inner world of "the lost generation" ,especially the youth. A Farewell to Arms is one of his masterpieces. Because of the similarities between the hero and Hemingway himself,many critics regard it as an autobiographical novel. The novel develops with the themes of war and love,exposing the brutality and absurdity of World War I,and the unforgettable pain it caused. At the same time,Hemingway extolled beautiful and unselfish love. In an age filled with war and chaos,pure love served as a beacon in the darkness,bringing hope,comfort and courage to people.展开更多
Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from ...Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from the perspectives of feminism,post- colonialism,ecocriticism.The themes in the novel such as love,home- coming,identity construction have also been discussed.展开更多
One of the threats to the modem men today is the quick change in seasons and unusual fluctuations in temperature Contemporary life is marked with various conditions that make life comparatively different and for that ...One of the threats to the modem men today is the quick change in seasons and unusual fluctuations in temperature Contemporary life is marked with various conditions that make life comparatively different and for that matter difficult for everyone. Amongst many worldly things, like materialism, struggle to survive in the highly competitive urban settings, people tend to consider the merits of cosmopolitanism more than anything else Curiously enough, Sir Philip Sidney＇s sonnets, though written in the 16th century and become milestones of the sonnet tradition in the English Renaissance which are applicable to today＇s global concern of environmentalism. When considered in the light of ecocriticism, Sidney＇s sonnets provide a suitable ground for the modem readers to reevaluate the current situation of the world we live in and the nature that we inherit from our ancestors. This paper aims to analyze some of Sidney＇s selected sonnets from Astrophil and Stella in the light of ecocritical approach to literary works.展开更多
It is a common knowledge that Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are divided into 3 parts: 1st, 1-126, to his handsome young friend, 2nd, 127-152, to his dark haired lady, and the 3rd, 153-154, to Cupid, the god of love in...It is a common knowledge that Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are divided into 3 parts: 1st, 1-126, to his handsome young friend, 2nd, 127-152, to his dark haired lady, and the 3rd, 153-154, to Cupid, the god of love in Roman mythology. The first 126 sonnets are analyzed and further arranged into 5 parts: 1st, 1-26, marriage and family; 2nd, 27-55, adultery and forgiving; 3rd, 56-77, the coldness of their friendship and the decay of the society; 4th, 78-101, the competation between Shakespeare and another poet; 5th, 102-126, excusing his friend for having been sometime silent. Through the analysis of the 3 famous sonnets and other famous lines, the conclusion is that the theme of the different contents of all the sonnets is love.展开更多
Analyzing familial affection between Sarah and Nullah across race, love between Sarah and Drover across caste, friendship between Sarah and King George across caste and race, this paper attempts to help audience compr...Analyzing familial affection between Sarah and Nullah across race, love between Sarah and Drover across caste, friendship between Sarah and King George across caste and race, this paper attempts to help audience comprehend the theme of the movie Austrlia and construct a new equal harmonious diversified Australia.展开更多
The last chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is the climax of the novel full of foregrounding linguistic features,making it difficult for common readers to comprehend or appreciate.Stylis...The last chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is the climax of the novel full of foregrounding linguistic features,making it difficult for common readers to comprehend or appreciate.Stylistic analysis ean be used by common readers to more easily read,more deeply understand,and more exactly taste the novel and its theme.展开更多
文摘Poetry is one of the most important literary forms in English literature.Love is an eternal theme among poems of different periods.Influenced by different social backgrounds,the poets express their strong feelings from different perspectives.By employing the methods of literature review and comparative study,this paper attempts to explore their images,themes and other literary characteristics,which contributes to better understanding about the love theme.
文摘Died just last January,J.D.Salinger is an American writer widely beloved,mostly by adolescent readers.While his most famous novel,The Catcher in the Rye,was controversial at first when publicized,his other work Franny and Zooey is controversial even till today.While some people regard it as a true gem,others think it's only a stinker.I will,in this article,bring its theme out of surface by citing extracts and analysizing them and give the reasons why I consider it a masterpiece.
文摘The current research attempts to explore the main themes of Lawrence's masterpiece Sons and Lovers from five the following aspects:Man/woman Love,the maturation of an artist,class conflict,Industrial life Vs.nature and Opposite forces:light and dark.It is great hope that this paper will make a small contribution to assist anyone who appreciates Sons and Lovers.
文摘The present paper is a stylistic analysis of the novel The Old Man and the Sea from functional perspective.It places context of situation and modified transitivity into stylistic analysis.The paper aims to put functional linguistics into practice and offer a new insight into the novel.It first gives a situational description of the novel and collects the data accordingly,and then analyzes the materiality of the samples in detail.By comparing the four samples,the paper first works out the plot,which is considered congruent with the principle of data collection;and then it discovers double levels of literary themes of the novel——A man may be destroyed but not defeated on one level,and the relationship between human being and non-human being on the highest level.
文摘Beauty and the beast,first published in France in1740,is the most symbolic and classical fairytale after Cinderella.Although time is flying,some basic motif the story embodies still keep alive and continues touching readers of generations.It must bear something valuable in this work.Here this essay will try to interpret it from the perspective of Christian,hoping to help us have a fresh understanding of the classic literature works.
文摘American society went through some especially speedy and drastic changes, after the World War II. Its transformation into a significant superpower as well as the horrors of the recent conflict is reflected in specific American novels and in the writing of certain elite novelists. They focus on human loss and a consequent search for identity and problematic belonging in a world of prejudice and hostility. This search for identity and aspiration to conformity with the new change is among of the main features of Salinger＇s the Catcher in the Rye, Ellison＇s Invisible Man and Vonnegut＇s Slaughterhouse Five. The paper focuses on certain similarities in theme and form which link these three novels and examines the extent of presentation of the style of narration set in motion by all three writers.
文摘Canadian classical works are becoming more and more popular all over the world. People began to understand and mar-vel at the Canadian literatures that are quite life-meaningful and full of lessons and tips for lives. The classic works in CanadianLiteratures that advantageously elaborated the characteristics of sublimation under the background for Canada's particular history,geography, climate, religion, demographic factors, generation, development and continuous construction of Canadian literatures.The greatest masterpieces can highlight powerfully the certain mindset of Canadian and the permanent theme for Canadian Litera-ture: keep working hard for survival and love bravely. Meanwhile, modern people will learn a lot from reading Canadian classic lit-erary works.
文摘从内容上看,这个话题与“Do you see anydifference in the kind of friendship you can havewith a man and with a womall?”有相近之处,却更进了一层,所问也更加直接,像是一个自然进行中的对话。我们向某人提问,一般都是由表及里,层层推进的。若两人一见面。
文摘The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is known as the first masterpiece of modernism poetry. Its protagonist Prufrock is not a concrete single person, but an abstraction of all modem men in trouble. He is alienated by women, time and space, and hence he is paralyzed and helpless. The use of dramatic monologue and stream of consciousness, quotation and allusions, objective correlative and startling imagery, irony and anti-climax, refrain and rhythm, fragmentation and juxtaposition not only deepens the theme, but also establishes Eliot＇s reputation as a leading modernist poet.
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文摘Emily Dickinson is the most famous legendary lyric poetess of the United States. She perceived death as a gradual pro cess with different functions. In the theme of love,desirable love,treacly love and miserable love are accordingly analyzed,and the paper interprets nature from perspectives of universal images. Through elaborate interpretation and analysis,the paper shows the female poet's original insights on death,love and nature,shocking readers' mind,motivating more researches on her poetic themes,and citing more references for further study on Emily Dickinson and her poetry.
文摘Love of Life,a short story about life and survival,is still well-read and accepted by readers today.This thesis aims at a thematic discussion of the story and its significant implications.The story shows that man’s living force is amazing,great,and in?vincible,and that life is short and precious to us all,but what is more precious is the power of faith to a meaningful life.
文摘Ernest Hemingway,the famous American writer,was one of the representatives of "the lost generation". He was good at depicting the life and the inner world of "the lost generation" ,especially the youth. A Farewell to Arms is one of his masterpieces. Because of the similarities between the hero and Hemingway himself,many critics regard it as an autobiographical novel. The novel develops with the themes of war and love,exposing the brutality and absurdity of World War I,and the unforgettable pain it caused. At the same time,Hemingway extolled beautiful and unselfish love. In an age filled with war and chaos,pure love served as a beacon in the darkness,bringing hope,comfort and courage to people.
文摘Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from the perspectives of feminism,post- colonialism,ecocriticism.The themes in the novel such as love,home- coming,identity construction have also been discussed.
文摘One of the threats to the modem men today is the quick change in seasons and unusual fluctuations in temperature Contemporary life is marked with various conditions that make life comparatively different and for that matter difficult for everyone. Amongst many worldly things, like materialism, struggle to survive in the highly competitive urban settings, people tend to consider the merits of cosmopolitanism more than anything else Curiously enough, Sir Philip Sidney＇s sonnets, though written in the 16th century and become milestones of the sonnet tradition in the English Renaissance which are applicable to today＇s global concern of environmentalism. When considered in the light of ecocriticism, Sidney＇s sonnets provide a suitable ground for the modem readers to reevaluate the current situation of the world we live in and the nature that we inherit from our ancestors. This paper aims to analyze some of Sidney＇s selected sonnets from Astrophil and Stella in the light of ecocritical approach to literary works.
文摘It is a common knowledge that Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are divided into 3 parts: 1st, 1-126, to his handsome young friend, 2nd, 127-152, to his dark haired lady, and the 3rd, 153-154, to Cupid, the god of love in Roman mythology. The first 126 sonnets are analyzed and further arranged into 5 parts: 1st, 1-26, marriage and family; 2nd, 27-55, adultery and forgiving; 3rd, 56-77, the coldness of their friendship and the decay of the society; 4th, 78-101, the competation between Shakespeare and another poet; 5th, 102-126, excusing his friend for having been sometime silent. Through the analysis of the 3 famous sonnets and other famous lines, the conclusion is that the theme of the different contents of all the sonnets is love.
文摘Analyzing familial affection between Sarah and Nullah across race, love between Sarah and Drover across caste, friendship between Sarah and King George across caste and race, this paper attempts to help audience comprehend the theme of the movie Austrlia and construct a new equal harmonious diversified Australia.
文摘The last chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is the climax of the novel full of foregrounding linguistic features,making it difficult for common readers to comprehend or appreciate.Stylistic analysis ean be used by common readers to more easily read,more deeply understand,and more exactly taste the novel and its theme.
