摘要

人总不能免于一死，死亡是人类永恒的话题，更是文学家们关注的主题。西方的死亡意识构成了文学审美中多彩的一页。在浪漫主义时期，这个诗歌的时代里，死亡主题展现出它最迷人的一面，在文学作品中大放异彩。本文先简短介绍浪漫主义时期的诗歌及死亡主题。然后分别分析威廉.华兹华斯，约翰.济慈和乔治.戈登.拜伦的两首诗或诗组，展显他们对待死亡的不同态度，总结浪漫主义时期诗人对待死亡的态度总趋势，并尝试探究背后蕴含的不同世界观和人生观等。

关键词：浪漫主义诗歌；死亡态度; 华兹华斯; 济慈; 拜伦

Abstract

Everyone can not escape from death, which is both an eternal topic of mankind, and a constant concern of writers. Western attitudes toward death formed a colorful and aesthetic part in the literature. In Romanticism Period, the age of poetry, the theme of death unfolded its most charming aspect and prospered splendidly in literature. This paper begins with a brief introduction of romantic poetry and death theme. Then by respectively analyzing two poems of William Wordsworth, John Keats and George Gordon Baylor, I will show their various attitudes toward death and summarize the general inclination in British Romantic Period. At the same time, I attempt to explore their different conceptions of world and outlooks on life and so on.

Key words：Romantic poetry; death; William Wordsworth; John Keats; George Gordon Baylor

1.    Introduction
1.1.    Introduction of poetry in British Romanticism Period
According to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, this period lasted from “1785 to 1830” (M. H. Abrams，2006:1), beginning with the publication of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, ending with Walter Scott’s death. Greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, romanticism radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them. It allowed people to break away from the constricted views of life, welcomed a new outlook on it that embraced emotion before rationality, and concentrated on an more emotional and sentimental side of humanity. Romanticists acted by intuition and inspiration, believed in democracy and humanity, and were convinced that it was possible to achieve a better world. As nature was used for their inspiration, Romantic writers idealized the old days, and celebrated the individual. Most scholars would associate Romanticism with British literature more than any other.