| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| Contents | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-22页 |
| ·Anne Sexton and the Death Aesthetics in Her Creation | 第7-17页 |
| ·Influence from Anne Sexton’s Personal Experience | 第8-14页 |
| ·Influence from the Social Background | 第14-17页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第17-21页 |
| ·Structure and Research Significance of This Thesis | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations of Death Aesthetics | 第22-26页 |
| ·Aristotle’s Theory of Purification | 第23-25页 |
| ·Edmund Burke’s Sublimity and Beauty Theory | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Aesthetic Effect of Death in Anne Sexton’s Poetry | 第26-35页 |
| ·The Hesitation between Self-destruction and Self-salvation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Poetic Creation behind the Mad Eyes | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Poetry Language in Anne Sexton’s Poems | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Images in Anne Sexton’s Poems | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Coexistence of Paradise and Inferno in Anne Sexton’s Poetic Creation | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Rhetoric of Anne Sexton’s Poems | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Theme of Anne Sexton’s Poems | 第35页 |
| Chapter Four The Sublimation of Death Aesthetics in Anne Sexton’s Poetic Creation..33 | 第35-44页 |
| ·Death Achieves Purification of Human Soul | 第40-41页 |
| ·Death Brings Sublimity | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第44-46页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第46-49页 |
| APPENDICES | 第49-50页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第50页 |
