第一章 什麼是詩？ 001
一、傳遞經驗與啟迪 004
二、對詩的誤解 006
三、詩與非詩 009
Alfred Tennyson The Eagle 004
William Shakespeare Winter 006
Anonymous Thirty Days Hath September 007
William Shakespeare Spring 012
Anonymous The Twa Corbies 013
第二章 怎麼讀詩？ 017
一、讀詩的基本訣竅 019
二、如何了解詩的涵義：誰在說話？ 024
三、詩人的目的是什麼？ 025
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed 021
A. E. Housman Is My Team Ploughing 026
Thomas Hardy Hap 030
Thomas Hardy The Subalterns 033
第三章 詞語的詞義和涵義 037
一、詞語的構成 038
二、詞語的多義性 041
三、尋找意義最豐富的詞語 043
四、敏銳的語感 048
五、意義與思想 055
Emily Dickinson There Is No Frigate Like a Book 039
William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us 041
Robert Graves The Naked and the Nude 045
Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory 050
Hardy Reed Naming of Parts 052
Anonymous Little Jack Horner 056
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 058
Robert Browning Pippa’s Song 061
第四章 意象 063
一、意象 065
二、俳句 067
三、意象的組合 070
四、意象派詩人 078
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 066
Yosa Buson The Piercing Chill I Feel 067
Gary Snyder A Great Freight Truck 069
Paul Goodman Sprayed with Strong Poison 069
Raymond Roseliep Campfire Extinguished 070
Richard Wright The Green Cockleburs 070
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow 071
Carl Sandburg Fog 072
Carl Sandburg Window 073
Robert Browning Meeting at Night 074
Robert Browning Parting at Morning 076
John Gould Fletcher The Groundswell 078
Amy Lowell Wind and Silver 081
第五章 比喻性語言(一)：明喻、暗喻、擬人、轉喻 083
一、明喻 085
二、暗喻 086
三、擬人與頓呼法 093
四、代喻與轉喻 095
五、比喻的優點 095
六、更多比喻的應用 097
Robert Francis The Hound 087
Robert Herrick To Dianeme 088
Walter Savage Landor Why Do the Graces 089
Robert Herrick To Daffodils
Emily Dickinson I Like to See It Lap the Miles 090
