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CONTENTS
Abstract .................................................................................................................................................. i
摘要 .......................................................................................................................................................iii
Chapter One Introduction ...................................................................................................................1
§1.1 Purpose of thesis .........................................................................................................................1
§1.2 Significance of thesis ................................................................................................................. 1
§1.3 Organization of thesis .................................................................................................................1
Chapter Two Literature Review ......................................................................................................... 3
§2.1 International Studies on John Donne ........................................................................................ 3
§2.2 Domestic Studies on John Donne .............................................................................................. 6
§2.3 My Reason and Approach .......................................................................................................... 6
Chapter Three Metaphor Theory to Metaphors in the Poems ........................................................ 8
§3.1 Cognitive account of poetic metaphor ....................................................................................... 8
§3.2 Mutual love poems ................................................................................................................... 10
§3.3 Love as bodily appetite poems .................................................................................................21
§3.4 Conclusion of chapter 3 ............................................................................................................27
Chapter Four Metaphor Theory to Analysis of Poems ...................................................................28
§4.1 Definition of Metaphor Theory ................................................................................................ 28
§4.2 Definition of Parable ................................................................................................................ 28
§4.3 Analysis of poems .................................................................................................................... 29
§4.4 Conclusion of chapter 4 ............................................................................................................34
Chapter Five Embodiment Influences the Creation .......................................................................36
§5.1 Theoretical origins of embodiment .......................................................................................... 36
§5.2 Influences from Petrarchism .................................................................................................... 39
§5.2.1 Inconstant women and Men .............................................................................................. 39
§5.2.2 Mutual, Reciprocal love .................................................................................................... 40
§5.3 Influences of Donne’s religion on the poems .......................................................................... 40
§5.3.1 The Ecstasy ........................................................................................................................41
§5.3.2 The Canonization .............................................................................................................. 41
§5.4 Influences from social background on Donne’s poems(16th Century) .................................... 41
§5.5 Influences from Donne’s wife Anne Donne .............................................................................42
§5.5.1 Representation of Anne Donne ......................................................................................... 42
§5.5.2 The parallel between the dramatic lyric “The Flea” and a letter ...................................... 43