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Theme of Nemesis in British Animal Poems
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WANG Qiu-sheng
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.11.005
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Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
This essay provides a thematic study of several British animal poems written by poets including John Gay, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hardy, and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. By directly or indirectly expressing the theme of nemesis or anti-nemesis, these poems aim at showing the bad consequences of the abuse of animals, serving as a warning to the animal abusers as well as the potential ones, and providing a way to achieve a harmonious human-animal relationship and thus avoid revengeful results.
KEYWORDS
animal poem, abuse, nemesis, warning
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