《美国文学》课件十四.ppt

Lecture Fourteen Henry Wadsworth Longfellow New England Poets;;New England Poets;Bryant;Fireside Poets;Fireside Poets;Fireside Poets;Longfellows Life and Career;Longfellows Life and Career;Longfellows Life and Career;Longfellows Life and Career;Longfellow’s position in American literature The most famous poet among the “New England Poets”; A great influence in the introduction of European culture to the U. S., and the popularization of American folk themes abroad where his works were immensely popular and widely translated. ; He is consistently high-minded (品格高尚的); the most beloved poet of his time; universally respected in his own time except by a few detractors (损毁者), such as Poe in his article, “Longfellow and Other Plagiarists”; later, with different standards, he was also criticized for his undue didacticism and excessive symbolism.;H.W.Longfellow ;Longfellow’s major poems Song of Hiawatha (1855, the first long poem in American literature to describe the Indians; poetical reputation established with it) “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” (1879) “A Psalm of Life” (1838) “The Slave’s Dream” (1842), etc. ; “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. ;Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. ;The morning breaks, the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. ;1st stanza: time: evening (“twilight, darkens, hastens toward the town”) place: sea-sands things treated: the twilight, the curlew, the traveler, the tide a sense of leisure