摘 要

艾米莉•狄金森是美国著名女诗人，她的诗歌以构思新颖别致、意象丰富著称。狄金森一生中创作了一千八百多首诗歌,反复出现的主题有“死亡”、“爱情”和“自然”，其中有六百多首是探讨“死亡”这一古今中外文人反复吟诵的主题。本文将从意象的角度剖析其死亡诗，以进一步理解狄金森的诗歌世界和真实情感的自然表露。首先，本论文介绍了意象和西方文化中的死亡概念及对死亡与永生的认知；其次，通过研究狄金森的死亡诗，分析死亡意象的多变灵活；最后，通过对比，了解了狄金森对死亡这一主题的心路变化历程。研究发现，狄金森用丰富的想象刻画出不同的死亡意象，把死神塑造成了一个伪善多变的个体；以其深刻的思想对死亡与永生这一主题进行了探索和思考，向世人展示了她谜一样的内心世界。然而，狄金森并没有一味的表达对死亡的恐惧和无奈，而是深入的思索与质疑，超然的面对死亡，揭示了人生的真谛。从意象的角度分析狄金森的死亡诗歌，可以加深对狄金森个人与其诗歌的理解，促进国内狄金森研究的深入发展。

关键词：死亡；永生；意象；伪善多变

ABSTRACT

Emily Dickinson is a well-known American female poet whose poems are famous for novel ideas and rich images. Dickinson creates over 1800 poems in her lifetime and the repeated themes include nature, love and death, of which more than 600 poems are relevant to death, the eternal theme repeatedly chanted by men of letters. The paper analyzes her death poems from the perspective of imagery in order to further understand the poetry of Dickinson and experience her natural expression of emotion in poems. First, this paper introduces imagery, the concept of death and the cognition of death and immortality in the western culture; second, the flexibility and variability of death image is analyzed through the study of Dickinson’s death poems; third, by contrast, an observation of Dickinson’s views on death is made. The study finds that Dickinson sketches out different images of death with her rich imagination and the death is shaped into a hypocritical individual. In addition, her profound thoughts on the subject of death and eternity show her mysterious inner world. However, unlike common people, Dickinson does not blindly express the fear and frustration of death, but questions skeptically, frankly faces death after revealing the truth of life. With this study, readers may deepen the comprehension of Dickinson and her poems from the approach of imagery to prompt the further development of Dickinson study in China.

Key words: Death eternity imagery hypocritical