Abstract—This article takes the famous English prose poem
of Youth written by Samuel Ullman as an example to analyze
the relationship between thematic progression and
characteristic of the passage. Results of the study showed that
the article is logically coherent and well-connected under the
influence of the staircase pattern. The radioactive pattern,
convergent pattern and parallel pattern form the prominent
subject and swift narration. Together with the parallel pattern,
the comparison between clauses makes the demonstration sharp
and powerful. At the same time, the article also discussed the
subtle relationship between the genre and thematic progression,
that is, different genres have different preferences for the
thematic progression. Great ideas need to be expressed in
appropriate genres, and specific genre calls for the
corresponding thematic progression.
Index Terms—Youth, thematic progression, genre, thematic
analysis.
Wang Qingwei is with Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi‘an,
China (e-mail: xiaowa@mail.nwpu.edu.cn).
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Cite:Wang Qingwei and Feng Zongxiang, "Analysis of the Thematic Progression of English Prose Youth," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 215-220, 2019.