葉芝中期詩歌中的問句分析與身份追尋

1、華北電力大學(xué)（保定）碩士學(xué)位論文葉芝中期詩歌中的問句分析與身份追尋姓名：王丹丹申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：郭雷2011-03Abstract IIAbstract William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest poets in the 20th century. The scholars at home and abroad have st

2、udied systematically on his poetry and drama from many aspects for many years and have gained a series of achievements. His poetry attracts more and more scholars to analyze his creative art

3、 from new points continually. Questions are important to construct the whole text. Studying the application of questions and the relation to the theme in poems is a new perspective to appreciate

4、 poetry. The theme and form in Yeats’poems are coherent. This thesis begins with the definitions of rhetorical question and lyric question and their functions in discourse considered by Bakhtin

5、. Then it generalizes some features of poetic questions in Yeats’poems. All these provide a theoretical context for the close readings of the poems which follow. Then the thesis analyzes some

6、 poems of the middle period written by Yeats through close reading. It is intended to analyze the application of the interrogative sentences and their expressive function in Yeats’poems. It mai

7、nly examines the ways in which interrogative patterns function in Yeats’poems and how changes in these patterns are tied to the poet’ s continual quest for identity. The interrogative analysis

8、of poems is an accessible and valuable way to appreciate Yeats’poems. The questions used in Yeats’poetry of the middle period are representative. Yeats shows his own identity quest by employing

9、 different interrogative patterns. This makes the themes of poems outstanding, enhances the tone of poet and links the narrative voices, images and various relations. This thesis chooses Yeats’fo

10、ur poems of the middle period to analyze. They are “ At Algeciras— a Meditation upon Death” , “ Leda and the Swan” , “ Among School Children”and “ Vacillation” . “ At Algeciras— a Meditation upon

11、Death”and “ Leda and the Swan”both begin with a special setting, use a metaphor to cause the thinking of death and ask for questions at last. This is poet’ s quest for self. In the poem “

12、Among School Children” , the poet uses a multi- layered structure to raise different questions and illustrates the idea: everything is unified. Human beings in complex world find the unity only

13、 from contradictories and recognize the different selves from contradictories. This is just the process of self re- recognition and self re- creation. “ Vacillation”causes the argument between the H

14、eart and the Soul by the question “ what is joy?”Even belief cannot bring eternity to man, only the quest for art is eternal, which highs the level of the poet’ s identity. This thesis aims