臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

艾蜜莉．荻瑾蓀, 是世界上有才華且傑出的女性詩人之ㄧ。在她三十歲左右就隱居，鮮與人來往。傳記家認為她遭受到一連串的情感與疾病之苦。荻瑾蓀的詩簡潔、神秘、省略、且常含有諷刺的意味。大多數研究荻瑾蓀的學者將她的詩作分成幾個主題：「自然」，「愛」，「死亡」與「永恆」。然而，我想從她的人生經驗中透過對於痛苦的描述來探討她的處事態度。荻瑾蓀認為痛苦不受時間與空間的限制，她運用隱喻來表達痛苦的強烈程度。本論文目的是探討她的「痛苦」主題的詩作。
本論文共分為五章節。第一章介紹荻瑾蓀的家庭、生活，並探討她隱居的可能原因。第二章節討論荻瑾蓀如何利用生活中的經驗當做寫作的主題。在她的詩中，以個人的生活經驗為出發點來探討宗教與哲學的本質。第三章主要探討人們如果不斷地遭受痛苦，又無法避免，那不斷的刺激終將使人疲乏，再也無法反抗，最終跌入絕望的深淵。唯一逃離的方法就是死亡。然而荻瑾蓀還有另ㄧ獨特的見解，她認為痛苦也有正面的意義，所以第四章探討痛苦的“回饋。” 荻瑾蓀認為痛苦是值得的，因為人們與生俱來就要接受挑戰經歷危險體驗失敗和忍受痛苦，但同時也得到希望的報酬，心靈的回饋，以及永恆的承諾。第五章探討荻瑾蓀不僅自己勇敢地面對痛苦，也透過詩句教導我們如何加以面對。經由痛苦的洗禮，我們學習到的是成長而不是毀滅。

Emily Dickinson, one of the talented and outstanding female poets, isolated herself after she was thirty years old or so. Biographers asserted that Dickinson suffered a series of pain in love affairs and physical pain. Dickinson’s poems, brief, mysterious, elliptical, and often epigrammatic, are meditations or the result of meditations on various themes. The main themes that we can find in her craft are usually divided into several groups: nature, love, death, immortality and so on. However, I would like to put the focus on the theme of pain and discuss some of her poems to understand how Dickinson observes the world through pain, a kind of psychic feelings. As Dickinson points out, pain apparently has an unmistakable character of being timeless and spaceless. She uses metaphors to convey an intensity of pain. This essay looks at the examples of Dickinson’s techniques of measurement to show some ways in which she claims pain as one of her main subjects.
This thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter One introduces Dickinson’s family, her life, and the reasons of her seclusion. Chapter Two explores Dickinson’s experience of life. Her poems permit her to use her personal experience as a springboard for discussing philosophical and religious matters In Chapter Three, I would like to express that if people can not escape from the great pain, the continual stimulation of pain will soon be fatigued; they will have no strengths to resist it; and finally the extreme pain will cause men to get into the abyss of despair. The only way for them to be out of the abyss is death. In Chapter Four, I will discuss Dickinson’s opinion that pain is rewarding. Dickinson agrees that one of people’s main tasks is to accept the challenge, go through danger, experience failure, and bear pain, as well as to get the hope of remuneration, the reward of spirit, and the commitment of living forever from it. Chapter Five concludes that Dickinson describes “pain” bravely. It is true that she observes pain and teaches us to face it. By suffering pain we become mature, instead of being destroyed.

Chapter One Introduction………………………………………………… 1

Chapter Two “Pain Has an Element of Blank”
The Prevalence of Pain……………………………………. 14

Chapter Three “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes”
The Despair of Pain……………………………………….. 37

Chapter Four “A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest”
The Power of Pain…………………………………………. 58

Chapter Five Conclusion………………………………………………… 78

Work Cited………………………………………………………………………….. 86

Index of Poems……………………………………………………………………... 93

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