英国文学史3rdweek课件.ppt

Internet resources: /Texts/Marlowe.html Providing e-texts of Christopher Marlow William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Life A great genius little is known about his life born into a merchant’s family in Stratford-on-Avon, on 26th April 1564 not much education, attended Stratford Grammar School Married Anne Hathaway (who is said to be his senior) in 1582 when he was only 18. Left Stratford in 1585 and prospered gradually in London firstly as an actor then as a playwright 1611or 1612, returned to his hometown Died there in 1616 born into a merchant’s family in Stratford-on-Avon, on 26th April 1564 Died there in 1616 Poems Sonnets Two narrative poems: Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece Sonnets 154 sonnets Two imaginary figures: the handsome young man, the dark lady Comments Style: more profound in morality and complex in expressing ideas and feelings Themes: moral conflicts and psychological uncertainties; the immortality of artistic beauty; the value of genuine friendship; the sorrows of feeling neglected in a corrupted world So Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. ? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d; But thy eternal Summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal line to time thou grow’st. ? So long as men can breath or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Artistic features of Shakespearean Sonnets Fourteen line lyric Iambic Pentameter Rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd, efef, gg Comments a profound meditation on the deconstructive power of time, the transitory nature of human life and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry a strong belief in the eternal value of poetry and lite