| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Literary Review on Tension in John Donne’s Poetry | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter Two Tension in Poetic Language and Image | 第17-32页 |
| ·Tension in diction | 第17-22页 |
| ·Tension in syntax | 第22-26页 |
| ·Tension in images | 第26-32页 |
| Chapter Three Tension in Poetic Situation | 第32-52页 |
| ·Tension in dramatic situation | 第32-40页 |
| ·Tension in poetic logic | 第40-52页 |
| Chapter Four Tension in John Donne’s Time and His Life | 第52-59页 |
| ·Tension in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth England | 第52-55页 |
| ·Tension in John Donne’s early life | 第55-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-66页 |
