When We Two Parted 诗歌鉴赏.doc

2011-2012学年第一学期期末论文 浅谈《当我们分别了》中的结构、主题、暗喻问题 课程名称： 《英美诗歌》 任课教师： 申玉革 学生姓名： 殷红霞 班 级： 08本科一班 学 号： 2008041128  Analysis on the Structure, Theme and Metaphorical Element of When We Two Parted Abstract: This poem is a very typical Romantic poem, about the love. The poet of this poem is Lord Byron, who expressed his feeling of love, a typical issue of Romanticism. This theory analyzes this poem from its structure and theme. Key Words: love, structure, theme, Romanticism  Ⅰ. The Structure of This Poem With respect to the structure of the poem, When we two parted contains four stanzas of eight verses each one. There are, also, four kinds of rhyme in each stanza. In the first four verses of each stanza, odd verses have a rhyme, and even verses have another rhyme, and this method is used by the writer in the last four verses of each stanza with a rhyme for each pair of verses as I said before. The whole poem is with the rhyme of ababcdcd. The vocabulary is easy to understand for everybody who studies the English language. The first verse of the poem is also the title of the poem, which means that the writer could not or did not want to find a title for the poem (maybe the damage he felt was so strong that he was not able to find a good title for the poem, as he writes at the end of the third stanza (Long, long shall I rue thee/ Too deeply to tell), or maybe he wanted the later generations to remember this poem deeply. Ⅱ. The Theme of This Poem This poem is about the love. It’s a typical Romantic poem, typical Romantic poet Lord Byron’s work, and Lord Byron expresses his feeling of love, a typical issue of Romanticism. As we all know, Lord Byron is a typical Romanic poet in Romanticism. There is no doubt that When We Two Parted has typical structure and theme of Romanticism. As I said at the beginning of the theory, firstly the poem is about the end (the m