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A Study on Life Connotations of Death Theme in Allan Poe's Poems

By portraying death and darkness in poems, Allan Poe aims at discovering beauty in death and awakening people's thirst for beauty in the filthy material world. He tries to realize eternal beauty and express his love for life in writing. Poe successfully puts his aesthetic principle "poetry for poetry's sake" into practice through his depicting beautiful women's deaths in poems and accomplishes supreme beauty "beauty in the heaven". Meanwhile, life is highly affirmed by means of facing death boldly.   

  1. College of Foreign Languages, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China
  • Received:2011-09-20 Revised:2011-10-14 Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-15

Abstract:

By portraying death and darkness in poems, Allan Poe aims at discovering beauty in death and awakening people's thirst for beauty in the filthy material world. He tries to realize eternal beauty and express his love for life in writing. Poe successfully puts his aesthetic principle "poetry for poetry's sake" into practice through his depicting beautiful women's deaths in poems and accomplishes supreme beauty "beauty in the heaven". Meanwhile, life is highly affirmed by means of facing death boldly.

Key words: beauty in the heaven, death, life

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