On Death Theme And Artistic Transmission Of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is one of the most outstanding poets in American of the 19^th century. Her poems are always with extensive subjects and deep thoughts, and renowned with plain but eternal language. And another outstanding characteristic of her poetic language and artic image is that she broke the conventional rule intentionally, but created to depart readers from her poetic language, thus length the way between the readers and the subjects in her poems. This makes the readers can scrutinize them and enjoy new internal beauty. This thesis aims to discuss the Death-Themed Poems of Emily Dickinson, intends to explore the techniques Dickinson created poetics of "Image". Coupled with the poet's contemporary living background, probing the poet's internal spirit, conclude the influence and rhetoric value of her poems devoted to American modern poems. There are three chapters of this thesis: Chapter One Analyzes the manifestation of Dickinson's Death-Themed poems, including to the death observation and the experience, to the death scene description, as well as the poet's attitude to lives and dies. Chapter Two Analyzes the artistic transmission of Dickinson's Death-Themed poems, Carries on a systematic analysis on different aspects from the description angle and the artistic idea as well as the artistic language. Chapter Three Analyzes the influence source of Dickinson's Death-Themed poems. Through to poet's life experience, the religious idea as well as Emerson's Transcendentalism to launch the analysis.