摘要作为十九世纪美国杰出的女诗人之一，艾米莉•狄金森对美国文学产生了极为深刻的影响。她以自己独特的诗歌风格，新奇的诗歌意象和深刻的思想内涵而独树一帜。本文采用生态女性主义理论为依据，结合狄金森的生活背景及其诗歌创作，旨在探讨狄金森女性意识和生态思想的形成以及这些思想在其诗歌中的反映；并最终得出结论：因为特殊的生活经历和社会背景，艾米莉狄金森形成了她的生态女性主义意识并在其诗歌中予以了表达。更重要的是，尽管她的生态女性主义观点并不成熟且存在缺陷和局限，但对现代社会却具有一定的现实价值和启示。40827
毕业论文关键词：艾米莉•狄金森；诗歌；自然；女性；生态女性意识
Abstract As one of the most prominent women poets in the nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson made a great impact on American literature. She was outstanding among the contemporary poets for her unique writing style, creative images and profound ideology. This thesis uses eco-feminist criticism as the theoretical basis and combines Emily Dickinson’s life experience and her poetry to further discusses the formation of Dickinson’s female awareness and ecological thought which reflected in her poetry. And the final conclusion is: because of her special social background and life experience, Emily Dickinson formed her eco-feminist awareness and then expressed it in her works. Above all, her eco-feminist awareness has its realistic value and inspiration to the modern world even though it is immature, deficient and limited.
Key words: Emily Dickinson; poetry; nature; women; Eco-feminist
An Eco-feminist Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Content
摘 要..i
Abstractii
I. Introduction.1
II. Emily Dickinson and Her Works.2
2.1Emily Dickinson’s Life Experience..2
2.2 A Survey of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry3
III. The Theory of Eco-feminism3
3.1 The Definition of Eco-feminism.4
3.2 Origin and Development of Eco-feminism4
IV. Dickinson’s Feminist Consciousness5
4.1 Dickinson’s Rebellion of Patriarchy..6
4.2 Dickinson’s Struggle in Religion7
4.3 Dickinson’s Resistance in Literature.8
V. Interpretation of Dickinson’s Ecological Awareness9
5.1Dickinson’s Transcendental View of Nature..10
5.2 Dickinson’s Anti-transcendental View of Nature.11
VI. Conclusion..12
Bibliography..14
Acknowledgements.15
I． Introduction
During the 19th century, there are certain significant people in American literature. One was Ralph Waldo Emerson, a poet, essayist and ideologist, who led Transcendentalist movement; one was Walt Whitman, a poet, essayist and humanist, who was claimed as America's first ‘poet of democracy’; the third was Emily Dickinson, a marvelous poetess in American literary history. Dickinson made a great impact on American literature and she was portrayed as “a powerful and persistent figure in American culture" (Martin 2004:1). Both life experience and poetry of Dickinson are all components of her significant legends. For the legend of her life experience, she was regarded as an eccentric by some of the locals and was regarded as a woman of letters by later readers. Dickinson had a preference for white clothing after puberty and was reluctant to get contact with the outside world. Later in her life, she was even isolated all day long in the house and communicated with only a handful of friends by correspondence. What's more, she stayed single all her life and it was quite rare for a woman to keep single throughout her life at her times. For her poetry, most of her poems were about nature, love, death, eternality, her self-awareness and the resistance against man-dominated reality. Only a few poems were about the society, political events or scientific field. In this sense, Chang Yaoxin argues that “Dickinson explores the inner life of the inpidual". After Emily Dickinson's main works having been published in the late 19th century, her works have always aroused the interest of scholars and readers around the world. Among these criticisms, her works even received unfavorable reviews and skepticism for her having challenged the traditional poetry. Even so her poetry writing competence and wit were widely recognized. 艾米莉•狄金森诗歌的生态女性主义解读:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_39252.html