| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Counting the Children: A Parable for the Tradition of Narrative Poetry | 第14-27页 |
| ·Terror and Love of Parenthood | 第14-18页 |
| ·Metaphors of the Characters and Event | 第18-22页 |
| ·The Old Woman and the Abandoned Room | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Dolls and the Children | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Accountant and the Family | 第21-22页 |
| ·Historical Sense and Personal Identity | 第22-27页 |
| ·Reflections on T. S. Eliot's Traditionalism | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Search for Self-Identity in the "Family" | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Counting the Children: Inheritance and Development of Frostian Style | 第27-41页 |
| ·Historical Sense of Meter and Genres | 第27-30页 |
| ·Consummate Interplay of Meter and Rhythm | 第30-35页 |
| ·Modes of the Meditative and the Lyrical | 第35-39页 |
| ·Inheritance of the Meditative Mode | 第35-36页 |
| ·Development of the Lyrical Mode | 第36-39页 |
| ·Characteristics of Gioia's Style | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Centrality of Mid-Length Narrative to the New Formalism | 第41-50页 |
| ·Expanding the Audience of Poetry | 第42-45页 |
| ·Criticizing Subculture and Elitism of Poetry | 第42-44页 |
| ·Exploiting Available Tradition and Readership | 第44-45页 |
| ·Solving the Dilemma of Long Poem | 第45-50页 |
| ·Gioia's Views of the Dilemma of Long Poem | 第46-47页 |
| ·Gioia's Proposal with His Own Examples | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第53-54页 |
| Works Cited | 第54-56页 |
| Appendix A Counting the Children | 第56-64页 |
| Appendix B Counting the Children (Chinese) | 第64-72页 |
| Publications during MA Study | 第72页 |
