| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| 1 W.B.Yeats's achievements in poetry | 第8-11页 |
| 2 W.B.Yeats's poetic theory | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter Two The Theory of the Mask | 第14-29页 |
| 1 The source of the Theory of the Mask | 第14-18页 |
| ·The influence of the literary legacy of the 18th and 19th centuries | 第14-16页 |
| ·The influence of Greek philosophical research | 第16-18页 |
| 2 Yeats's theory of the Mask | 第18-25页 |
| ·Man and mask | 第18-21页 |
| ·Yeats's theory of man and daimon | 第21-25页 |
| ·Man and daimon | 第21-22页 |
| ·Interpenetrating gyres | 第22-24页 |
| ·Unity of Being | 第24-25页 |
| 3 The application of the Theory of the Mask in Yeats's poetry | 第25-29页 |
| Chapter Three Feminine masks in Yeats's poetry and their symbolic meanings | 第29-62页 |
| 1 Feminine masks and their application | 第29-30页 |
| 2 Analysis of some poems containing feminine masks | 第30-48页 |
| ·Women and wisdom: 'Solomon to Sheba' | 第30-34页 |
| ·Sexual union-Unity of Being: 'Solomon to the Witch' | 第34-36页 |
| ·Complementary opposites: 'A Man Young and Old' and 'A Woman Young and Old' sequences | 第36-43页 |
| ·The mask of Crazy Jane-Yeats's daimon: 'Crazy Jane' sequence | 第43-48页 |
| 3 The application of this theory to the interpretation of some other poems | 第48-55页 |
| ·'Leda and the Swan' | 第49-51页 |
| ·'The Phases of the Moon' | 第51-55页 |
| 4 The significance of the theory | 第55-62页 |
| ·From aesthetic perspective | 第55-56页 |
| ·From philosophical perspective | 第56-58页 |
| ·From sociological perspective | 第58-59页 |
| ·From psychological perspective | 第59-62页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
