文档介绍：Liaoning Normal University
(2011届)
本科生毕业论文(设计)
题目: 华兹华斯与惠特曼诗歌比较
学院: 外国语学院
专业: 英语(师范)
班级序号: 2班22号
学号: 20071115020051
学生姓名: 王欢
指导教师: 李丙奎
2011年5月
parative Study of Poetry by Wordsworth and Whitman
Wang Huan
A Thesis Submitted
In Partial fulfillment for the
Requirements of the Degree of
BACHELOR OF ARTS
School of Foreign Languages
LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
May, 2011
Abstract
William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman are two great romantic poets of England and America in 19th century. They bravely break up the rules and principles of the former poetry, and make a reformation in both content and style. As Wordsworth says that all good poetry is from the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which is accumulated from tranquility. Wordsworth usually chooses the humblest monest objects as his subject images, and uses real language close to people to describe them all the time. Likewise, Whitman selects mon leaves as his essential image in his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, which stands for the individual self and the “en-masse” as well. Whitman criticizes the concept of “art for art’s sake”, putting forward the idea that position should be for life.
Living under the circumstances of social turbulence and high economical and cultural development, Wordsworth’s and Whitman’s poems take on different colors of periods. In this paper, through analyzing the elements influencing the alteration of Wordsworth’s and Whitman’s poetic ideas paring their similarities and differences in literary themes, we will strengthen prehension of the true great poets of Romanticism, broaden our outlook and enhance our literary attainments.
Keywords: Romanticism; images; literary themes; naturalism; democratic ideals
摘要
华兹华斯和惠特曼是19世纪英美浪漫主义诗歌史上伟大的诗人,他们不羁以往诗风的束缚,在诗的内容和形式上进行大胆革新。正如华兹华斯所说,一切好诗都是强烈感情的自然流露,它源于宁静中积累起来的情感,华兹华斯的诗歌从来都是以自然和人类世界中最常见的事物和人作为主题意象,并自始自终竭力选用人们实际使用的语言去叙述和描绘它们。类似地,惠特曼选择“叶子”作为他创作的核心意象,既指代了个别的人,也指代了全美国的大众。惠特曼批判了“为艺术而艺术”的观念,提出了“为人生”的文学创作观。
由于身处社会动荡、经济文化又高度发展的时代,华