摘要
Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death,love,nature,etc.Her short poem“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”is one receiving relatively few academic discussion.Among the rather few existent studies,many discuss Dickenson’s feminist ideas,religious bewilderment,literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem.This article,instead,gives an interpretation of this poem from an ecocritical perspective.It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on human’s cruelty and indiffer?ence to nature.After a thorough interpretation of Dickenson’s reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem,the article fur?ther explores Dickenson’s attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to support this interpretation.
Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate andprofound writing of life and death, love, nature, etc. Her short poem"My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun"is one receiving relativelyfew academic discussion. Among the rather few existent studies, many discuss Dickenson’s feminist ideas, religious bewilderment,literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem. This article, instead, gives an interpretation of this poem from an eco-critical perspective. It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on human’s cruelty and indiffer-ence to nature. After a thorough interpretation of Dickenson’s reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem, the article fur-ther explores Dickenson’s attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to supportthis interpretation.
作者
周雪娟
ZHOU Xue-juan(Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632,China)
出处
《海外英语》
2019年第15期218-219,共2页
Overseas English
