《美国文学》课件4.pptVIP

She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth She dwelt among the untrodden waysBeside the springs of Dove,Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love:A violet by a mosy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!---Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me! By Nature’s self in white array’d, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose. Smit with those charms, that must decay, I grieve to see your future doom, They died—nor were those flowers less / more gay, The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumn’s power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. Notes for the 1st stanza: retreat: place of seclusion; secluded place untouch’d: untouched; honey’d: honeyed; greet: personification No roving foot shall crush thee here, / No busy hand provoke a tear: iteration; parallelism; personification; synecdoche; provoke: shall provoke, cause to shed; Notes for the 2nd stanza: Nature: personification (she) in white array’d: dressed in white; purity bade: past tense of “bid”; command, ask shun: avoid summer: metaphor repose: lie dead The 2nd stanza: ① the advantages of the suckle: bade, shun, planted, guardian shade, sent, soft waters (nature’s protection) (contrast) ② the disadvantages of the suckle: quietly . . . goes, declining, repose Notes for the 3rd stanza: smit with: past tense of “smite”; impressed by, stricken by; they died: the charms of the flower faded away; nor were those flowers less / more gay, The flowers that d