爱伦坡的死亡观在乌鸦中的体现 英语毕业论文.docVIP

爱.伦坡的死亡观在《乌鸦》中的体现 【关键词】埃德加?爱伦?坡；死亡观；乌鸦；美 Ⅰ.IntroductionEdgar Allan Poe?(1809--1849) is one of the most controversial literary figures in American history. For a long time after his death, Poe didnt get the recognition he deserved, but his talents in literature has been gradually rediscovered and appreciated by now. Contemporary critics consider him as a pioneering aesthetician and psychological investigator, and his reputation with the reading public is more secured than that of any other major American writer of his time.Many critics have expressed their amazement regarding the relative paucity of Poe’s poetic output in relation to his status as a great poet. T. S. Eliot once noted,?“He wrote very few poems, and of those few only half a dozen have had a great success: but those few are as well known to as large a number of people, are as well remembered by everybody, as any poems ever written.” 1 Of all the poems many agree that The Raven is Poe’s finest poems. Ever since The Raven was first published on 29th January 1845, in N. P. Willis’s?“New York Evening Mirror”, it brings Poe national and international fame.In the poem, the first person narrator confines in his chamber and try to ease his pain for his lost love Lenore with old books of forgotten lore. Weak and weary, he is nearly napping. Then he hears a tapping on the door and then on the window lattice, which brings the narrator both fear and a mood of expectancy. When he opens the shutter, the bird of ill-omen, a stately raven steps in and perches on the bust of Pallas, which is the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology. When the narrator is confronting the raven and takes it as a speaker, he asks questions about the destiny of his dead love Lenore but is frustrated by the single-word response:?“Nevermore”, which drives the narrator’s mood to permanent despair.Edgar Allan Poe illustrates his view on death and poetry in?“The Poetic Principle”. He puts his theory into practice in his poems. This thesis ta