本論文的目的在探討天堂之主題在艾蜜莉‧笛金笙詩中的內涵。首先，在第一章我們將會回顧各學者關於該主題的不同看法。然後，我們會再為笛金笙的天堂觀下一個定義。之後再透過佛教思想以及她和金庸武俠小說中的一位女子—小龍女—之間的關聯性進一步去檢視她的天堂觀發展的三個階段。在接下來的章節中，我們將會探討笛金笙第二階段天堂觀的各個面相。第二章，我們聚焦在心性；第三章，我們則關注個人性；第四章，我們處理藝術創作。最後一章則為結論。

The goal of my thesis is to investigate the significance of the topic, heaven, in Emily Dickinson’s poems. In the first chapter, to begin with, we will have a literature review to see scholars’ concept of Dickinson’s heaven. Then, we will give a definition of Dickinson’s heaven and scrutinize the three stages of the development of her heaven with the help of some basic Buddhist concepts and the correlation between Dickinson and Xiao Long Nü, a female character in the martial arts novel Shen Diao Xia Lü by Jin Yong. In the following chapters, we will concentrate on different aspects of the second stage of Dickinson’s heaven. In the second chapter, we will focus on mind. In the third chapter, we will pay attention to individuality. In the fourth chapter, we will deal with artistic creation. The last chapter is the conclusion.

Table of Contents
Abstracti
Chinese Abstractii
Acknowledgementsiii
Chapter One: Introduction1
Literature Review2
The Definition of the Dickinsonian Heaven3
The Goal of the Thesis4
Three Stages of the Dickinsonian Heaven5
Chapter Overview14
Chapter Two: Mind19
Philosophy of Religion19
Philosophy of Life25
Chapter Three: Individuality31
Religious Criticism31
Social Environment40
Gendered Relationships46
Chapter Four: Artistic Creation51
The Essence of Artistic Creation51
The Process of Artistic Creation60
The Definition of a Poet65
Chapter Five: Conclusion70
Works Cited72

English Texts:
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Monterio, George. “Love ＆ Fame or What’s a Heaven for?: Emily Dickinson’s Teleology. “The New England Quarterly, Vol. 51. 1. (Mar., 1978), pp. 105-113.
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Chinese Texts:
陳元音Chen Yuan Yin，《禪與美國文學Zen and American Literature》(台北:
東大圖書，1997)，頁162-163。
劉貴傑Liu Gui Jie，《佛學與人生Buddhism and Life》(台北:五南圖書，1999)。
金庸Jin Yong，《神鵰俠侶Shen Diao Xia Lü》(台北：遠流，1996年)，頁170, 195, 1398。
聖嚴法師Sheng Yan Fa Shi，《佛教的修行方法Ways to Practice Buddhist Rules》(台北:財團法人法鼓山佛教基金會，2002年) 。
張松輝Zhang Song Hui注譯，《新譯妙法蓮華經Newly Translated Miao Fa Lian Hua Jing》(台北：三民，2007年)，頁314-318。
張松輝Zhang Song Hui注譯，《新譯莊子讀本Newly Translated Zhuangzi Reader》(台北：三民，2007年)，頁10。