5.美国文学选读 课件Philip Freneau

What is a Honeysuckle?
• Honey suckle: it is one of the most beautiful of all wildflowers for its scent and ability to grow in difficult places. • Grows on acid soils and old mines, railway tracks and is a good herbaceous plant. The flowers are short lived but lovely, often found on canals where it likes the water that is available. • 忍冬花。俗称金银花。
The Wild Honey Suckle
• “The wild honey suckle” is Philip Preneau’s most widely read natural lyric with the theme of transience. 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.
The Indian Burying Ground
• Death in the Indian
• 1.Concept: The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza. • 2.types: • 1．end rhyme（尾韵）occurs at the end of a line. • 1） 联韵： “aabb”型。 • I shot an arrow into the air, a • It fell to earth, I knew not where a • For, softly it flew, the sight b • Could not follow it in its flight. b
• Later he attended the War of Independence, and he was captured by British army in 1780. • After being released, he published “The British Prison Ship” in 1781. • In the same year, he published “To the Memory of the Brave Americans”.
What is the Rhyme Scheme of The Wild Honey Suckle?
• Grow-retreat-blow-greet-here-tear • a-b-a-b-c-c
Metrical pattern (iambic tetrameter)
• • • • • • • • • Fair flower, that dost so comely grow ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ Hid in this silent, dull retreat ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ Unseen thy little branches greet: ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ No roving foot shall crush thee here, ﹀ \﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \ • No busy hand provoke a tear. • ﹀ \﹀ \ ﹀ \ ﹀ \
The Wild Honeysuckle • This poem was published in his Poems (1786) and was virtually unread in the time when he was living. • The poem is said to anticipate the nineteenth-century romantic use of simple nature imagery. • It is considered one of the author’s finest nature poems.
Thematic Concern:
• 1. Death and Transience • 2. Imagination • 3. Craving for nature and freedom • His poems presented Romantic spirits but his form and taste were mainly influenced by Classicism.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Arrow and the Song
2） 交叉韵：abab型
• Sunset and evening star, a • And one clear call for me! b • And may there be no moaning of the bar, a • When I put out to sea, b • Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892): Crossing the Bar
1. Works
《美洲光辉的兴起》
• “The Rising Glory of America” (1772) 《夜之屋》 • “The House of Night” (1779, 1786) • “The British Prison Ship” (1781) • “To the Memory of the Brave Americans”
• He was the most significant poet of 18th century America. • Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19th century American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville.
• 那些难免消逝的美使我 销魂， 想起你未来的结局我就 心疼， 别的那些花儿也不比你 幸运—— 虽开放在伊甸园中也已 凋零， 无情的寒霜再加秋风的 威力， 会叫这花朵消失得一无 踪迹。
• 朝阳和晚露当初曾把你 养育， 让你这小小的生命来到 世上， 原来若乌有，就没什么 可失去， 因为你的死让你同先前 一样； 这来去之间不过是一个 钟点—— 这就是脆弱的花享有的 天年。
3. What lessons can we draw from the poem?
• The wild can also be beautiful. • Everyone should take an active attitude toward life. never avoid challenges for fear of losing something. • One can’t achieve anything under the shelter and protection.
《英国囚船》
(1781) • “The Indian 《奄奄一息的印第安人：Burying 托姆· 察吉》
《纪念美国勇士》
• “The Wild Honey Suckle” (1786)
《野金银花》 Ground” (1788)
• “The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi”
《印第安人墓地》
3） 同韵：有的诗押韵，一韵到底，大多 是在同一节诗中共用一个韵脚。
• 如下例就共用／i:p／为韵脚 • The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. • Robert Frost (1874-1963): Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Wild Honey Suckle:
• Read the poem on p.45 and try to get the main idea:
The first stanza
• • Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Lecture 5 The Representatives of American Enlightenment:
Philip Freneau(1752-1832)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
“Poet of the American Revolution” “Father of American Poetry” “Pioneer of the New Romanticism” “A gifted and versatile lyric poet”
• After war, he supported Jefferson, and contributed greatly to American government. • But after 50 years old, he lived in poverty. And at last he died in a blizzard.
• 美好的花呀，长得：这 么秀丽， 却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地 方—— 甜美的花儿开了却没人亲 昵， 招展的小小枝梢也没人观 赏； 没游来荡去的脚来把你踩 碎， 没东攀西摘的手来催你落 泪。
• 大自然把你打扮得一身 洁白， 她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的 目光， 她布置下树荫把你护卫 起来， 又让潺潺的柔波淌过你 身旁； 你的夏天就这样静静地 消逝， 这时候你日见萎蔫终将 安息。
2. His Life
• He was born in New York. • At 16, he entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He decided do a postgraduate study in theology. But two years later he gave it up. (While still an undergraduate, he wrote in collaboration with one of his friends (H. H. Brackenridge) a poem entitled “The Rising Glory of America”.)
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Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here,
• No busy hand provoke a tear.
Rhyme Scheme（韵式）