美国文学课件6The Literature of the Romantic Period4教学教材.ppt

Chapter 3;Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;A Psalm of Life;A Psalm of Life;;;;7 Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; ;8 Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. ;9 Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. ;Study questions;Criticisms on“A Psalm of Life”;Works;人生礼赞—年轻人对诗人的心语?;7 千秋伟人昭示着我们：我们能够出众超群。纵然离去，留在身后的是：　　印在时间泥砂上的踪痕；　 8 或有别的弟兄，?????????? 　　　 泛舟于严峻的人生海洋，　 遇险而心感凄凉， 见踪重拾勇气和希望。　??? 9 那么，就让我们行动起来，　胸怀一颗敢于担戴的心；　不断进取，日日追寻，　善于等待，勤于耕耘。 ;Walt Whitman (1819-1892);Whitman and Leaves of Grass;Early Editions of Leaves of Grass;Leaves of Grass, 1855;Leaves of Grass, 1856;Leaves of Grass, 1860;Civil War;Whitman and Lincoln;Later Editions of Leaves of Grass;Leaves of Grass, 1889 and 1891;328 Mickle Street, Camden;In his final months, Whitman was very sick. He had a large mausoleum 陵墓built in Camdens Harleigh Cemetery. Whitman died on 26 March 1892 at about 6:30 p.m. and is buried in the tomb that he had designed.;Whitman His Influences;His work echoed with the language of the American urban working class and many corners of the 19th century culture, giving presentations in the nations politics, its music, its new technologies, its fascination with science, and its evolving pride in an American language that formed as a tongue distinct from British English.