| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-10页 |
| CHAFFER ONE Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第11-12页 |
| ·Thesis Structure and Methodology | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Literature Review | 第15-22页 |
| ·Ancient Chinese Poetics: Primacy of Image in Ancient Chinese Poetry | 第15-16页 |
| ·Russian formalist view on poetry and language | 第16-18页 |
| ·Major translators and their translations of and commentaries on ancient Chinese poetry translation | 第18-20页 |
| ·Criteria for selecting materials to be analyzed in the study | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Composition of Ancient Chinese Poetry | 第22-35页 |
| ·Poetry: The best words in the best order | 第22页 |
| ·The poetic language | 第22-32页 |
| ·The unity of form and spirit: Being in becoming | 第24-26页 |
| ·Play of the words: Ostranenie/Defamiliarization/Estrangement | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Chinese language: the poetic language | 第29-32页 |
| ·Strongly imagistic | 第30-31页 |
| ·Syntactically incomplete | 第31-32页 |
| ·Image: the universal poetry | 第32-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| CHAFFER FOUR Translating Ancient Chinese Poetry into English | 第35-55页 |
| ·The translating process: releasing the spirit into a linguistic form | 第35-42页 |
| ·Impossible equivalence between Chinese and English verse forms | 第37-38页 |
| ·Meaning unfixed: Dissolution of one single invariant reading | 第38-40页 |
| ·Faithful image representation: Key to ancient Chinese poetry translation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Preservation of the original image | 第42-53页 |
| ·Two types of image construction in poetry | 第42-44页 |
| ·Pure scenery depiction | 第43页 |
| ·Scenery depiction combined with emotional revelation | 第43-44页 |
| ·Translating image-constructing verse lines | 第44-51页 |
| ·Macro level operation: Sequence of image presentation | 第45-47页 |
| ·Micro level operation: Word order and mode of combination | 第47-51页 |
| ·The translator's transgression in structural modification | 第51-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-55页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion | 第55-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-62页 |
