| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-13页 |
| Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-29页 |
| ·W.S.Merwin:The Poet and his Major Writings | 第15-17页 |
| ·Merwin Studies:Literature Review | 第17-27页 |
| ·Structural Arrangement of the Dissertation | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 1 "For the Coming Extinction":Shaping of Merwin's Senseof Ecological Apocalypse | 第29-50页 |
| ·Apocalypse and American Apocalyptic Literature | 第29-33页 |
| ·Biblical and Literary Traditions:Origin of Merwin's Apocalyptic Thinking | 第33-36页 |
| ·Shaping of Merwin's Sense of Ecological Apocalypse | 第36-50页 |
| ·Tragic Vision in Merwin's Earliest Poetry | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Moving Target:Merwin's Role as Prophet of Apocalypse | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Lice:Establishment of Merwin's Sense of Ecological Apocalypse | 第43-50页 |
| Chapter 2 Non-anthropocentric Revelation in Merwin's Poetry onNatural Beings | 第50-78页 |
| ·Anthropocentrism:Ultimate Causes of Ecological Crisis | 第50-53页 |
| ·Merwin's Denunciation of Anthropocentrism | 第53-56页 |
| ·Moral Status of Animals | 第56-71页 |
| ·The Animals' Genesis | 第58-61页 |
| ·Unrestrained Spirit:Totemic Animals | 第61-67页 |
| ·Eternity and Freedom:Images of Birds | 第67-71页 |
| ·Intrinsic Value and Interconnectedness:Merwin's Understandings of Natural Beings | 第71-78页 |
| Chapter 3 Nature and Merwin's Critique of Modern Society | 第78-111页 |
| ·Coordinating Relationship between Nature and Society | 第78-79页 |
| ·Manifest Destiny and Wilderness:"American Sequence" | 第79-90页 |
| ·American Sequence | 第80-88页 |
| ·Merwin in the Whitmanian Tradition | 第88-90页 |
| ·City and Nature:Merwin's City Poems | 第90-101页 |
| ·Human and Nature:Merwin's Division Poems | 第101-111页 |
| Chapter 4 Merwin's Realization of his Ecological Self | 第111-168页 |
| ·Self-realization and Merwin's Realization of his Ecological Self | 第111-112页 |
| ·Searching for a Sense of Place:Merwin's Exploration of Ecological Self | 第112-140页 |
| ·Merwin's Enduring Search for his Place | 第114-115页 |
| ·American Urban Landscapes | 第115-117页 |
| ·France:A Temporary Refuge | 第117-131页 |
| ·The Last Place Hawaii and Merwin's Ecological Practice | 第131-140页 |
| ·Advocacy of Hawaiian Indigenous Culture in Merwin's Ecopoetry | 第140-155页 |
| ·Worship of Nature in Hawaiian Culture | 第140-144页 |
| ·Trees in the Rain Forest:From Unnamed to Named | 第144-148页 |
| ·The Rain in the Trees:Between Hawaiian Indigenous Language and Nature | 第148-155页 |
| ·Zen Influence in Merwin's Ecopoetry | 第155-168页 |
| ·Merwin's Adherence to Zen Buddhism | 第155-159页 |
| ·Spontaneity and Self-thus:Intrinsic Buddha Nature of All Beings | 第159-162页 |
| ·Emptiness and No-self:Elimination of Egoism | 第162-168页 |
| Conclusion | 第168-170页 |
| Notes | 第170-174页 |
| Bibliography | 第174-182页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第182-183页 |
| 攻读学位期间的主要科研成果目录 | 第183页 |
