| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| List of Tables | 第7-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-13页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Selection | 第17页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Transitivity | 第19-21页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies | 第21-24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Poem | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Preliminaries | 第27-40页 |
| ·Stratification | 第27-29页 |
| ·Instantiation | 第29-30页 |
| ·Three Metafunctions | 第30-31页 |
| ·Transitivity and Poetic Text | 第31-40页 |
| ·Material Process | 第32-33页 |
| ·Mental Process | 第33-35页 |
| ·Relational Process | 第35-36页 |
| ·Verbal Process | 第36-37页 |
| ·Behavioral Process | 第37-38页 |
| ·Existential Process | 第38页 |
| ·Other Participants | 第38-39页 |
| ·Circumstantial Elements | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter Fout Results and Discussion | 第40-78页 |
| ·Analysis of Episode 1 | 第40-52页 |
| ·Episode 1(a)—Episode 1 in Chinese | 第41-46页 |
| ·Episode 1(b)—Episode 1 in English | 第46-52页 |
| ·Analysis of Episode 2 | 第52-63页 |
| ·Episode 2(a)—Episode 2 in Chinese | 第52-56页 |
| ·Episode 2(b)—Episode 2 in English | 第56-63页 |
| ·Analysis of Episode 3 | 第63-70页 |
| ·Episode 3(a)—Episode 3 in Chinese | 第63-66页 |
| ·Episode 3(b)—Episode 3 in English | 第66-70页 |
| ·Analysis of Episode 4 | 第70-73页 |
| ·Episode 4(a)—Episode 4 in Chinese | 第70-71页 |
| ·Episode 4(b)—Episode 4 in English | 第71-73页 |
| ·Summary of Transitivity in the Poem | 第73-76页 |
| ·Distributive Features of Transitivity of the Poem | 第73-74页 |
| ·Distributive Features of transitivity in Episodes | 第74-76页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis:Transitivity in Chinese and English | 第76-78页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第78-83页 |
| ·The Main Findings | 第78-81页 |
| ·The Implications | 第81-82页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第82-83页 |
| References | 第83-88页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Episode 1 | 第88-93页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Episode 2 | 第93-96页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Episode 3 | 第96-99页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Episode 4 | 第99页 |
