| Content | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Research Objectives | 第9页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions | 第9-11页 |
| 1.4 Research Methodology | 第11页 |
| 1.5 Thesis Structure | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-18页 |
| 2.1 A Brief Introduction to Cummings’ Life and Works | 第13-14页 |
| 2.2 Literature Review on Cummings’ Poems | 第14-17页 |
| 2.3 New Perspective Adopted in this Paper | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Three The Concrete Poem and Liushu Theory of Chinese Characters | 第18-25页 |
| 3.1 The English and Chinese Concrete Poems in History | 第18-20页 |
| 3.2 Discussion on Two Writing Systems: Pictographic and Phonetic Writing System | 第20-21页 |
| 3.3 A Brief Introduction to Liushu Theory | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Four The Analysis on Cummings’ Concrete Poems under Pictogram and Phonogram in Liushu Theory | 第25-39页 |
| 4.1 Pictogram and Phonogram in Liushu Theory | 第25-34页 |
| 4.2 The Difference between Cummings’ and Chinese Concrete Poems | 第34-36页 |
| 4.3 The Audio-Visual Feast Created by Cummings’s Concrete Poems | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Five Modernism and New Expressional Forms of Cummings’ Concrete Poems | 第39-48页 |
| 5.1 A Brief Introduction to Modernism | 第39-41页 |
| 5.2 Innovations on Language Expressional Forms Advocated by Modernism | 第41-42页 |
| 5.3 Cummings’ Innovations on English Concrete Poems | 第42-48页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第48-52页 |
| 6.1 Summary of the Major Findings | 第48-50页 |
| 6.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Appendix | 第55-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56页 |
