梅·萨藤《 82岁日记》中的忧郁情感体验_英语论文

Depression in May Sarton’s journal At Eighty-Two

摘要

梅•萨藤是美国著名的小说家和诗人。她的日记在人们当中很受欢迎。《82岁日记》是萨藤的最后一本日记，记录了她从81岁到82岁日常生活的点滴。通过记录她每天的生活，萨藤向读者展示了她真实的生活面貌，如拜访朋友，写作,阅读和园艺工作。“忧愁”这词在文中频繁出现，所以本篇论文主要针对的就是她的忧郁心境。首先，论文会讲述导致她忧愁的原因。她的忧愁有着各种各样的理由，例如不好的天气，较差的身体状况以及其他一些。然后则是通过分析她在日记中写下的忧愁体验,来揭示衰老与忧愁之间的联系。同时我也将深入挖掘分析她在面对她的坏情绪时的积极抗争和所采用的方法，从而提高自己老年生命质量的现代借鉴意义。

关键词：梅•萨藤；衰老；忧愁；《82岁日记》；日记写作

Abstract 

May Sarton is a famous American novelist and poet. Sarton’s journals are very popular among people. At Eighty-two is Sarton’s last journal of her daily life from the age of eighty-one to eighty-two. Displaying day-by-day routines of her own life, she shows readers her real life of old age—visiting friends, writing, reading and gardening. What’s more, the word “depression” appears frequently in this journal. So this paper mainly focuses on Sarton’s depression. First, reasons that make Sarton depressed will be presented in this paper. Her depression is caused by various reasons, such as the bad weather, poor health and so on. And through the analysis about the experiences of depressing feelings that Sarton writes in her journal, this paper intends to reveal the relations between aging and depression. Meanwhile, this paper also plans to dig out the useful struggle and ways she adopts in confrontation with her own bad emotions and to conclude the model significance in At Eighty-Two that Sarton takes different ways to fight against the anxiety and to improve her life quality. 

Keywords: May Sarton; aging; depression; At Eighty-two; journal writing 

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1. Brief introduction of May Sarton and At Eighty-two 1

1.2. Literature review 1

1.3 The Purpose and Structure of the Paper 4

2. Depression and aging 6

2.1 The Definition of Depression 6

2.2 The Relation between “Depression”and “Aging” 6

3. Reasons of Sarton’s Depression 8

3.1 The bad weather 8

3.2 Loneliness 9

3.3 Poor Physical Condition 10

3.4 Trivial matters without creativity 10

3.5 Friends’ deaths 11

4.The Means Against Depression 13

4.1 Writing 13

4.2 Interacting with friends 13

4.3 Full of hope 14

5. Conclusion 16

References 17