Theme of Nemesis in British Animal Poems

摘要

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.