臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

論文提要：
艾蜜莉．狄瑾蓀是美國詩壇上最清新、最令人驚豔的聲音之一，也是十九紀最神秘的女詩人。她終生未婚，三十歲以後除一次因眼疾前往波士頓醫治之外，數十年足不出戶，身著白衣過著閱讀與寫詩的純粹生活。她的隱居引起無數臆測。不論如何，淡泊平靜的生活使她能全然投入生命的悲喜與神秘中，注視著靈魂深處的悸動，終而吟詠出不朽的作品。
在狄瑾蓀所留下為數龐大的詩作中，自然、宗教、悲喜、人生、死亡、永生與愛情是她主要的主題。大多數批評家認為狄瑾蓀的情詩是較弱的一環，但事實上，她的情詩交錯著戀人對愛情的渴望與退怯，在感情中經歷的狂喜與靈魂受分離囓蝕的苦楚，以及婚姻帶給女人的安全感、地位的提升和自我的失落。這些轉折呈現狄瑾蓀心理上深刻幽微的一面，也使其情詩充滿矛盾的張力，成為傳世之作品。
本論文共分為五部份。第一章介紹狄瑾蓀情詩的發展。第二章探討愛情所帶來的喜悅及戀人欲拒還迎的矛盾心理。第三章探究伴隨愛情的狂喜而來的分離、痛苦及重聚的無望。第四章呈現狄瑾蓀的婚姻觀，凸顯女性欲藉婚姻提昇地位卻失去自我的困境。第五章總結上述各章的分析,並肯定狄瑾蓀情詩寫作的成就。

Abstract
In American poetry, Emily Dickinson was one of the freshest, the most unexpected voice and one of the most mysterious poetess. After she was thirty, she gradually withdrew from the world, leading a peaceful life as a private poet and wearing all white for decades until she died. Her reclusion caused much speculation. In effect, as woman with spiritual and creative power, Dickinson refused to conform to the ordinary mode of life for a New English spinster. Her reclusive life allowed her to heed only the essential facts of life and gave her more time to play out all of life’s experiences through her poetic fantasies.
During her lifetime, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems but only published seven of them. Most of her poems dealt with nature, religion, life, despair, death, immortality and love. Although some critics asserted that her love poetry was weak, her presentation of love as a desirable yet fearful experience revealed her subtlest psychology, and her insistence upon the predicament of human love and upon the dilemma that women faced in wedlock provided her lyric a tragic grandeur. The love poems were indeed representative of many of her prominent achievements.
This thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter One introduces the development of Emily Dickinson’s love poems. Chapter Two examines the poems about the ecstasy of love, which focuses on the physical aspects of desire and presents Dickinson’s ambivalent attitudes toward love. Chapter Three explores the love poems dealing with the anguish of love, the suffering and despair that love causes. In these poems, the lover depicts her longing for shared moment, the agony of parting and the futility of future union. Chapter Four discusses the marriage poems in which Dickinson considers marriage a decisive and sacramental act that marks the end of childhood and the beginning of maturity, thus often raising a woman from a lower social status to a higher one but causing her loss of identity. Chapter Five is the conclusion, which reaffirms the literary achievement of Emily Dickinson’s love poems

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One Introduction………………………………………. 1
Chapter Two The Ecstasy of Love ……………………………..16
Chapter Three The Anguish of Love …………………………… 42
Chapter Four The Fulfillment of Love through Marriage……… 71
Chapter Five Conclusion………………………………………... 95
Works Cited ...........……………………………………………106

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