托马斯哈代Snow in the Suburbs.ppt

Snow in the Suburbs(郊外雪景) by Thomas Hardy;Every branch big with it, Bent every twig with it ; Every fork like a white web-foot; Every street and pavement mute: 雪使树干变粗了， 雪把树枝压弯了； 一个个树杈都嵌满白雪 一条条街巷都人声寂灭。; Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again. The palings are glued together like a wall, And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall. 雪花迷失了路转向上飞 遇到新的雪花一齐向下飘去。 条条篱笆被雪花连成一片， 静悄悄中鹅毛大雪在飞翔。 ; A sparrow enters the tree Whereon immediately A snow-lump thrice his own slight size Descends on him and showers his head and eyes 一只麻雀飞上了树枝， 摇落一团团银絮， 雪块有它的三倍大， 朝着它的头和眼睛洒下。 　 ; And overturns him And near inurns him, And lights on a nether twig, when its brush Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush. 雪块冲倒了麻雀， 几乎把它埋在雪窝。 麻雀飞到低枝上栖歇， 又抖落树枝上片片玉屑。 ; The steps are a blanched slope, Up which, with feeble hope, A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin, And we take him in. 台阶变成了白色斜坡， 走来一支有气无力的黑猫， 饥饿的大眼睛，骨瘦如柴， 我们把它抱了进来。 ;Up until the middle of the 19th century most poetry had tended to concentrate on countryside scenes. Snow in the suburbs is a poem written by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist, short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement. ;Theme;With the word snow only in the heading and in the 11th line he uses the word snow sparingly(节约地), leaving it for the reader to imagine the amount of snow and the setting. fleecy fall gives a sense of warmth but coolness at the same time just like an oxymoron(矛盾修辞法). ;Significance;Thank you!