美国文学史诗歌重点赏析.ppt

iambic tetrameter The poem is said to anticipate the nineteenth-century romantic use of simple nature imagery. In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature. He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature. It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature. The poem showed strong feelings for the natural beauty, which was the characteristic of romantic poets. 以黄水仙凋谢得太快来感叹人生匆忙而短暂 We have short time to stay, as you,We have as short a spring;As quick a growth to meet decay,As you, or anything.We dieAs your hours do, and dryAway,Like to the summers rain;Or as the pearls of mornings dew,Neer to be found again. Death in the Indian tradition has a different meaning. It is no longer that sad and dreadful event that everyone is afraid of. The North American Indians bury their dead in a sitting posture; decorating the corpse with wampum, the images of birds, quadrupeds and with bows, arrows and other military weapons. The dead Indian is dressed in special clothes as though celebrating a happy event. The dead person becomes a warrior who protects the land. This explains his posture and the way he is dressed in. The conception of death in this culture makes of it a different one from the white man’s. 去茵島 我將起身現在就去茵島 搭個小木屋用樹木泥草 種上九行豆，架構個蜂巢 獨居空地四周蜜蜂吵鬧 哪兒我得安寧，來自低調， 來自對著早晨面紗蟋蟀叫， 午夜光閃耀，中午紫光飄， 傍晚紅雀翅膀充斥夕陽照。 就將動身去，總是日夜夢縈繞， 耳聞湖水拍岸聲音靜悄悄， 當我躋身車水馬龍人行道， 聽見心底深處茵島深情招。 The poem attempts to describe Pounds experience upon visiting an underground metro station in Paris in 1912, and Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an equation. Because of the treatment of the subjects appearance by way of the poems own visuality, it is considered a quintessential Imagist text. Ancient Chinese poem Defamiliarization 陌生化 Japanese haiku (俳句） The importance of the objects lies in their juxtaposition in the poet’s vision. The ordering power