Beginning with an old story, Toni Morrison uses her unique method to tell us the functions of language and her perspectives of language and literature. From this story, we can understand her writing standpoint and her determination of making contributions to her nation and people. This paper tries to review her speech given in the Nobel Prize in Literature from four aspects. They are the introduction and comprehension of the story, narrative point of view, discourse and power and feminist criticism.
In the history of British literature, Hardy is not only an excellent novelist, but also a famous poet. He was regarded as "The Father of Modern Poems". Merryn William thought that only Hardy and Lawrence were the real first-class novelists and poets in British literature.[1] Among his more than 1000 poems, The Darkling Thrush is a typical lyric poem. The excellence not only lies in its elegant language, musical rhythms and vivid description of nature, but also lies in the expression of poet's desolate attitude through images. The nature images play an important role in displaying the theme and expressing the complex feeling. They also express people's anxiety, confusion and expectation toward to the turning of the passing century and the coming of the new century. This paper tries to deeply undrestand the theme of the poems by analysing these images.
