| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Notes and List of Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| Chapter One Poetics of Metaphor against the Philosophical Dilemma of Time | 第19-32页 |
| 1.1 A Time Marked by Confusion | 第19-21页 |
| 1.2 James’s Pragmatic Solution to the Havoc | 第21-26页 |
| 1.3 Frost’s Momentary Stay against Confusion | 第26-32页 |
| Chapter Two Metaphor in Thinking and Poetry | 第32-48页 |
| 2.1 Metaphor is the Whole of Thinking | 第32-39页 |
| 2.1.1 Metaphor is Pervasive in Language and Conceptual System | 第32-34页 |
| 2.1.2 Metaphorical Mapping is Selective | 第34-35页 |
| 2.1.3 Metaphors are of Image-Schematic Structures | 第35-37页 |
| 2.1.4 Metaphors May Lead to Recategorization | 第37-39页 |
| 2.2 Metaphor is Central to Frost’s Poetic Creation | 第39-48页 |
| 2.2.1 Almost Always There’s A Figure Within the Poem | 第39-41页 |
| 2.2.2 All Metaphor Breaks Down Somewhere | 第41-43页 |
| 2.2.3 Poetry is the Free Field of Metaphorical Play | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter Three Poetry as a Metaphor to Live by | 第48-62页 |
| 3.1 What are Matter and Spirit | 第48-49页 |
| 3.2 Where Poetry Comes in | 第49-53页 |
| 3.3 What It Means to Unite Matter and Spirit | 第53-62页 |
| 3.3.1 Frost’s Belief of Love, Nation and Self | 第54-56页 |
| 3.3.2 Frost’s Belief of Art | 第56-58页 |
| 3.3.3 Frost’s Belief of “God”—— The Meaning of Life | 第58-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-69页 |
