With its melancholic theme to affect people\'s heart and soul,Nineteen Ancient Poems has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its readers and generations of readers have been deeply moved.

Hemingway and the tragic theme of his works;

The multi-layered symbolic meanings of the images (sea,fog,inland) and their complicated mutual relationships as described in Eugene O Neill s Anna Christie are analyzed,and the deep-rooted tragic theme which O Neill tries to convey in this play is explained.

Hemingway\'s special social background and personal experiences are interpreted as the source of the tragic themes in his works.

Subscribing to stylistic monism about the inseparability between form and content, this paper shows how in Hardy s above-mentioned masterpiece, there is an almost perfect fit between its structural patterns and its pessimistic themes.