| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature review of mental lexicon | 第14-25页 |
| ·Definition of mental lexicon | 第15-16页 |
| ·Models of mental lexicon organization | 第16-22页 |
| ·Chinese scholars' research on mental lexicon | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 2 The studies of the two poets— Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman | 第25-45页 |
| ·Background of the two poets | 第26-31页 |
| ·Emily Dickinson and characteristics of her poems | 第26-28页 |
| ·Walt Whitman and characteristics of his poems | 第28-31页 |
| ·The features of poems | 第31-33页 |
| ·Previous studies about the two poets — Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman | 第33-41页 |
| ·Studies on Emily Dickinson | 第34-38页 |
| ·Studies on Walt Whitman | 第38-41页 |
| ·The poems chosen in this thesis | 第41-45页 |
| ·The two chosen poems | 第41-42页 |
| ·Three questions proposed in the questionnaire | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter 3 Testing of mental lexicon organization in the two poems | 第45-64页 |
| ·Description of the experiment | 第45-49页 |
| ·Purpose | 第45-46页 |
| ·Design | 第46-47页 |
| ·Subjects | 第47页 |
| ·Procedure | 第47-49页 |
| ·Words circled | 第49-51页 |
| ·Data analysis of The morns are meeker than they were | 第51-55页 |
| ·Categorization of the association words | 第51-54页 |
| ·Tables for analyzing the categorical data | 第54-55页 |
| ·Data analysis of A noiseless patient spider | 第55-60页 |
| ·Categorization of the association words | 第55-59页 |
| ·Tables for analyzing the categorical data | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Linear Activation Model | 第60-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Works Cited | 第66-69页 |
| Appendix A | 第69-75页 |
| Appendix B | 第75-77页 |
| Appendix C | 第77-82页 |
| Appendix D | 第82-83页 |
| 指导教师评语 | 第83页 |
