美国文学课件7The Literature of the Romantic Period5教材课程.ppt

Chapter 3;Agenda ; Free verse (自由体诗) refers to poetry that does not follow standard or regularized meter (the organization of stressed and unstressed syllables) or rhyme scheme. ;Free verse enables a different kind of organization. Use of repeated images, symbols, syntactic patterns (phrases, and grammatical units) At times, use of metrical patterns and occasional rhyme to tie lines together. ;Walt Whitman is often referred to as the “father of the free verse”. He wrote in broad, flowing, conversational rhythms, comparing his poetry to “large, billowy waves.” rolling rhythms and cadences strong, direct, everyday language;2. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886);An almost total recluse(隐居者) by the age of 30 Companionships with several men although she never married Benjamin F. Newton, a law student in her father’ office Reverend Charles Wadsworth, the image of a “lover” Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a writer ;;Pre-reading;Vocabulary;Because I Could Not Stop For Death;Stanza 1 Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality.;Stanza 2 We slowly drove — he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labour, and my leisure too,For His Civility.;Stanza 3 We passed the school where children strove At Recess — in the Ring;We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain,We passed the Setting sun.;Stanza 4 Or rather — He passes Us — The Dews drew quivering and chill — For only Gossamer(薄纱), my Gown — My Tippet(披肩) — only Tulle (薄纱) — ;Stanza 5 We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground; The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice(飞檐\檐口)— in the Ground — ;Stanza 6 Since then — ’tis centuries — and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses’ HeadsWere toward Eternity — ;Study Questions