Poets often express their ideas and attitudes through their poems,like American poet Robert Frost,British poet A.E Housman and Chinese Cao xueqin.The paper compares pessimism towards life of the three poets by analyzing their poems.
In the early Middle Ages the Europe was a chaotic social environment.The empire was so vast that no king could build a centralized government,so the king depended on counts to administrate the regions.There were conflicts,wars,invasion and famine at that time.The decentralized government could not protect people from these sufferings,so the people just could search for the strong to secure them.The lord could provide protection to his vassals and grant fiefs to his vassals,and in turn vassals needed to perform their obligation to the lord.These obligation included loyalty,military service,assistance,offering material and counsel which stabilized the area that the lord ruled.The feudalism in the administration of Merovingian and Carolingian even after the breakup of Carolingian could illustrate the stable units of the empire.
Death is a common theme of literature and most of writers eulogize noble death to heaven and belittle some souls to heaven.Emily Dickinson,the great American poetess,wrote more than 600 poems about death and immortality with her unique ideas.The paper will analyze Emily Dickinson’s unusual belief about death from her poems and the influence of her growing environment on her.
Sylvia Plath is a major representative of the American confessional poetry. Her idiosyncratic poetry and her suicide in1963 aroused an intensive interest and study on her and her poems that hasn't subsided until now. This paper tries to explore the so-called Sylvia Plath myth and analyzes the various factors that molded her extreme psychology, theme and style by Lacanian psychoanalytic approach.
Stylistic features can help better express the meaning between lines.Love Is a Fallacy by Max Shulman is a sati ring novel.This paper will analyze how such stylistic features as run-on sentences,fragments,elliptical sentences,end-focus,periodical sentences,inverted sentences,tag questions and loaded questions applied in the novel to help describe heroes’characteristic and their psychology and the writer’s attitude to them.
