Introduction
Chapter One A General Review on Deep Image
1.1 Deep Image
1.1.1 Background Introduction of Deep Image
1.1.2 Rothenberg and Kelly''s Views on Deep Image
1.2 Robert Bly''s Deep Image Poetics
1.3 Themes of Deep Image Poetry
Chapter Two Comparison Between Imagism and Deep Imagism
2.1 Difference in Theory
2.2 Difference in Practice
Chapter Three Theoretical Foundations of Bly''s Poetics
3.1 Freud and Jung''s Theories of the Unconscious
3.2 Mysticism: the Theory of the Duende and Boehmenism
3.2.1 The Duende: the Muse of Poetry
3.2.2 Boehmenism: Between the Inward and the Outward
3.3 Transcendentalism
Chapter Four Return to Solitude
4.1 The Poet and Solitude
4.2 Solitude: A Passage to Pleasure
4.3 Significance of Solitude
Chapter Five Deep Image Poetics in Robert Bly''s Political Poetry
5.1 Political Poetry in America
5.2 Robert Bly''s Theory of Political Poetry
5.3 The Light Around the Body and "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"
Chapter Six The Shadow in "Sleepers Joining Hands"
6.1 Interpretation of the Shadow
6.2 The Shadow in the Poem
6.2.1 The Shadow as the Poet
6.2.2 The Shadow as the Anima
6.2.3 The Shadow as the Collective Image
6.3 The Shadow and the Self
Chapter Seven The Way to the Inward Life: Ancient Chinese Poetics and Poetry in Robert Bly
7.1 A Brief Background Introduction
7.2 Chinese Poets in Robert Bly
7.3 Taoism in Robert Bly
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Appendix Acceptance of the National Book Award for Poetry