| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract in English | 第9-11页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·An Introduction to Ashbery | 第12-13页 |
| ·Ashbery's Representative Works and Typical Style | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Scope and Focus of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literary Review | 第16-27页 |
| ·A Survey of International Study | 第16-24页 |
| ·Criticism on Obscurity in "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" | 第16-18页 |
| ·Criticism on the Relation between Arts and His Poems | 第18-19页 |
| ·Criticism on the Meaning and Language in His Poems | 第19-21页 |
| ·Criticism on His Poems from the Perspective of Postmodernism | 第21页 |
| ·Criticism the Influence of Predecessors on His poems | 第21-22页 |
| ·Criticism on Topics in His Poems | 第22-24页 |
| ·An Introduction to the Domestic Study | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-26页 |
| ·Research Questions in the Present Thesis | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第27-35页 |
| ·The General Survey of Gender Studies | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Studies of Gay and Lesbian Studies | 第29-35页 |
| ·The Negative Attitudes towards Homosexuality | 第30-33页 |
| ·"Coming Out from the Closet" | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four The Awareness of Living in "closet" | 第35-47页 |
| ·The Awareness of Homosexual Repression in Some Trees | 第35-42页 |
| ·The Longing for Gay Liberation in The Tennis Court Oath | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter Five Coming out from the closet | 第47-59页 |
| ·The Declaration of Avant-garde Notion in Some Trees | 第47-53页 |
| ·The Realization of Avant-garde Notion in The Tennis Court Oath | 第53-59页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Reference | 第61-67页 |
| Appendix | 第67页 |
