| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 外國語文學系研究所 === 107 === The topic of the thesis is to analyze death theme in the poems by John Donne, George Herbert, William Wordsworth, and Alfred Tennyson. Donne and Herbert both were poets and served in the church. I will first discuss and compare the meaning of life, death and immortality in John Donne’s and George Herbert’s poems through the Christian doctrine. In chapter two, I’ll move on to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth. Poems that Wordsworth wrote have a theme that is Nature. More specifically, it is the death of nature in human. I would tell the difference between the death of nature in the human and traveler’s image related to death in Wordsworth’s poems. In chapter three, I would start from the poem that Tennyson wrote in his old age, which he told the imagination about death. And then I would tell the images related to death that Tennyson used repeatedly in his poems. Tennyson also wrote poems about death of nature but his concept is different from William Wordsworth’s. Tennyson’s concept of nature is related to death and immortality of creatures.
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