美国文学史课件4 Emily Dickinson

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?我们慢慢驱车?他不慌不忙我也把我的劳与闲?统统丢掉一边?为了他的礼让?我们走过校园孩子们你推我搡?在休息时间在圆形广场?我们走过在田间凝眸的麦杆?我们走过落日旁?或毋宁说他走过我们身旁?寒露降身子冻得打颤?因为我的长衫落纱般?我的披肩如丝网?我们停步在一所房子前?那似乎是隆起的土地一片?屋顶几乎看不见?屋檐在地里面?离那时已是几个世纪?过了还不到一天?我首次猜测到?马头在朝向永恒奔窜
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Stanza 1: Death, in the image of a kind gentleman, comes in a carriage for the sake of Immortality and me. Stanza 2: To show my politeness to death, I gave up my work and my enjoyment of life as well; I give up my life. Stanza 3: The journey of our carriage implies the experience of human life; school stands for childhood; the fields of gazing grain, for youth and adulthood; while the setting sun, for old age.
Features of Her Poems
1. subject matter : love, nature, morality and immortality. The subjects of her poems range among descriptions of love and despair, joy and suffering, and thoughts of death and immortality.

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2. Exclusion of the literature of women and colored people (American Indians, AfricanAmericans, Asian Americans, etc)
Nationalistic Orientation (2)
3. “Good” literature: embodiment of American national spirit – e.g. F. O. Matthiessen in American Renaissance (1941) enshrines five writers for their devotion to “democracy”, dismissing Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) as second rate popular writing only. cf. The Scarlet Letter (1850) Moby Dick (1851) Walden (1854) Leaves of Grass (1855) Americanness vs Excellence
Indians? • Literature most representing American
national spirit by American citizens? • – women’s domestic / private literature? • Literature created by American citizens
Hawthorne: cultural production
1. Evert Duyckinck, who managed the magazine United States Magazine and Democratic Review , advocate of American literary nationalism, proponent of high culture

美国文学作品中女性形象研究

美国文学作品中女性形象研究

美国文学作品中女性形象研究美国文学中,女性形象是一个极其重要的研究对象。

女性形象不仅是文学作品中的主要人物之一,也是反映作者对女性问题和社会角色的思考和表达。

本文通过分析美国文学中几个经典的女性形象,探讨了女性在文学中的独特表现和意义。

1. 艾米丽·狄金森(Emily Dickinson)艾米丽·狄金森被誉为美国诗歌史上的一个里程碑,她的诗歌在个人、思想、感情等方面具有非凡的独立性和原创性。

狄金森的诗歌中大量地强调了女性自我意识,她批判了女性应该被动、虚弱和无助的传统形象,把女性主体性和独立性展现得淋漓尽致。

她的《没有物质美》表达了女性对物质和表面美感不屑一顾的批判态度;《力量的活力》中写到“我的思想和我的举止都是自由的”,展现了女性独立自主的精神。

通过狄金森的诗歌,我们可以看到女性在文学中刻画自我意识和自我解放的形象。

2. 斯嘉丽·奥哈拉(Scarlett O'Hara)《飘》的女主角斯嘉丽·奥哈拉是一个极具争议性的女性形象。

她的个性坚强、果敢、自信,却也容易被视为虚伪、利己和不道德。

她在小说中经历了家族的沦落、个人的挫败和爱情的离奇曲折,最终通过自己的努力摆脱了困境。

斯嘉丽的形象被看作是对当时美国南方妇女形象的极端扭曲和反叛,她展现了女性自信和独立精神的另一面。

而同时,斯嘉丽的形象也被批判为过分崇拜权力、金钱和男人,对于女性自我定位的反思和质问仍然存在。

3. 伊迪丝·惠顿(Edith Wharton)伊迪丝·惠顿是美国文学史上最具代表性的女性作家之一,她的小说中塑造了很多精致而复杂的女性形象。

惠顿的小说反映了当时美国社会的种种变化和矛盾,她的女性形象则展现了女性在那个时代中的各种角色和命运。

例如,在《纯真年代》中的榜样女性莉莲是一个勇敢的独立者,她不屈服于世俗的眼光和传统的限制,通过自己的努力获得了独立的经济地位。

而《红房子》中的莉莲则是一个情感空虚而迷茫的女子,她在爱情和婚姻中受到了现实的压迫和伤害。

美国文学EmilyDickinson迪金森

美国文学EmilyDickinson迪金森

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Weird Recluse?
• She would sometimes send her poems to
people as gifts for valentines or birthdays, along with a pie or cookies.
• She often lowered snacks and treats in baskets to neighborhood children from her window, careful never to let them see her face.
• "If fame belonged to me," she told Higginson, "I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase.… My barefoot rank is better." The twentieth century lifted her without doubt to the first rank among poets.
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What’s the Difference?
BECAUSE I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.

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Because I could not stop for Death
• Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-The Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality. We slowly drove--He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my Leisure too, For His Civility-We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess--in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-We passed the Setting Sun-Or rather--He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For only Gossamer, my Gown-My Tippet--only Tulle--
Works
• A prolific private poet • Few of her poems were published during her lifetime • Emily's poems are unique for the era : Contain short lines; Typically lack titles; Often use slant rhyme and unconventional capitalization and punctuation. • Major themes: Flowers and gardens The Master poems Morbidity (忧郁) Gospel poems (福音诗) The Undiscovered Continent • Apart from the major themes, Emily's poetry frequently uses humor, puns, irony and satire.

美国文学 Emily Dickinson

美国文学 Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森(1830 - 1886)1.The usual beginning : her life1) Born to religious, well-to-do New England family•Well-behaved, well-educated, obedient•Expected to become a graceful woman, marry well, and settle into a life of church service2) Heartbreak :•Heartbreak At 24, travels with her father to Washington D.C. Escaping her love of an older lawyer, who was married, and would die of tuberculosis that same year•On the journey, falls in love with Charles Wadsworth, a married pastor of a church in Philadelphia In 1862, Wadsworth leaves for San Francisco, and Emily falls into despair3) The Nun of Amherst : 阿默斯特的女尼•Emily withdraws from social life – except for immediate family gatherings•Dresses all in white – like the wedding gown she would never wear •Communicates mostly through notes4) A Published Poet :•During her period of recluse, Emily send a few poems to be published.•Her poetry was never widely admired during her lifetime•and she assumed her audience would only be her family and few close friends. •Dickinson asked that upon her death, all of her poems be destroyed.5) After her death :•She wrote altogether 1775 poems, of which only seven appeared in print in her lifetime. •These were eventually published and Dickinson has become one of the most widely known of the American poets.2. Themes in her poetry1). The largest poetry concerns death and immortality.For Dickinson, death leads to immortality.•E. g: ―Because I could not Stop for Death‖因为我不能为死神止步Because I could Not Stop For Death因为我不能为死神止步•Beause I could not stop for Death—因为我不能为死神止步•He kindly stopped for me—他却慈祥地为我驻足.•The Carriage held but just Ourselves—那辆马车只能容下我们两个•And Immortality.还有不朽.•We slowly drove— He knew no haste,我们徐徐而行—他不慌不忙. •And I had put away•My labor and my leisure too我也把我的劳与闲统统丢掉一边,•For His Civility —为了他的礼让—•We passed the School where Children strove 我们路过学校,孩子们你推我搡,•At Recess —in the Ring —在休息时间,在圆形广场•We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—我们走过在田间凝眸的麦田—. •We passed the Setting Sun—我们路过夕阳-•Or rather— He passed Us—或毋宁说,他走过我们身旁•The Dews drew quivering and chill—寒露降,身子冻得打颤•For only Gossamer, my Gown—因为我只披着薄纱长袍—•my Tippet —only Tulle—我的披肩如丝网•We paused before a House that seemed 我们停步在一所房子前•A swelling of the Ground—那是隆起的土地一片—•The Roof was scarcely visible—屋顶几乎看不见—•The Cornice —in the Ground—屋檐—在地里—•Since then — `tis Centuries— and yet离那时—已是几个世纪—然而•Feels shorter than the Day感觉却比一天还短•I first surmised the Horses' Heads•我开始猜想着马车•Were toward Eternity—•正驶向永恒—该诗的核心意象是通向永恒的生命旅程.Journey of life:•the School--childhood•the Field --adult/maturity•the Setting Sun - old age•the grave - end of life’s journey-death--EternityDetailed analysis of the poem•The first line hints that death is not the final stopping place or terminus of existence.•i had...too:figuratively I put behind me the labour and toil of worldly existence. Literally, as a courteous passenger she puts aside her work, possibly her knitting ("labour") and gives all her attention to the coach driver (Death).•where...ring: they pass children at playtime ("recess") actively engaged in playing a game (symbolic of the world, and/or of meaningless worldly striving).•fileds of gazing grain: cornfields,perhaps suggestive of harvest, or the cycle of the seasons, the natural world she is leaving behind. ("Gazing" is nicely alliterative but difficult to explain to expain-may mean simply something gazed at through the carriage window).•The dews: in the English culture, drew is traditionally associated with transience and also, because of a dew-drop's pearl like shape, with the soul.•My tippet only tulle:my fur was only soft fine silk (I wore little to protect me from the cold). •We...ground: a grave or tomb. ("paused"implies that burial in a grave signfied no more than a temporary restinplace before the soul attends to heaven).•Since then 'tis centuries:time is meaningless in terms of eternity,and therefore it seems no time at all since she first suspected("surmised")that the horse drawing Death's carriage were heading for Eternity. •"Surmised"is a beautifully apt word in this context because it tactfully suggeste something less than a certitude, but someting more than guess or conjecture-the sound of the word with its long drawn out second syllable counts for a good deal here(possibly about Cortez the explorer first viewing the continent of South America:"...and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise..."). •Other poems dealing with death:•My life closed twice before its close在我生命结束之前已经结束过两次•I heard a fly buzz—when I died我死时听到了苍蝇的嗡嗡声She began to conceive of the process of dying.2). She regards nature as both kind and cruel•Extol the magnificence of sunrise in ―I’ll tell you how sun rise‖我将告诉你太阳如何升起,•In the meantime, reveal the cold indifference of nature.•In ―Apparently with no surprise‖显然地并无伴随惊讶, Frost kills a happy flower without being punished while both the sun and God look on.3). On the ethical level she emphasizes free-will and human responsibility.•In ―To fight aloud‖•The individual’s highest duty is to resist anything that will do harm to man’s self-respect and spiritual heritage.4). Like Emerson, she holds that beauty, truth and goodness are ultimately one.•In ―I died for beauty‖(我为美而死), discusses beauty and truth, concludes that the two are one.I Died for Beauty— But was scarce•I died for Beauty — but was scarce我为美而死—但还不怎么•Adjusted in the Tomb适应坟墓里的生活,•When One who died for Truth , was lain这时一位为真理而死的人被安放在•In an adjoining Room —隔壁墓室里—•He questioned softly"Why I failed?―他柔声问:―我为什么而亡?‖•"For Beauty ",I replied —―为了美‖,我回答说—•"And I — for Truth — Themself are One —―我—为了真理—美和真是一样的—•We Bretheren, are", He said —我们两是兄弟‖,他说•And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night —就这样,像亲人在夜里相遇。

美国文学 Emily Dickinson

美国文学 Emily    Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森-美国文学PPT精选文档

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我们走过落日旁——
Or rather--He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For only Gossamer, my Gown--
My Tippet--only Tulle--
或毋宁说,他走过我们身旁 寒露降,身子冻得打颤—— 因为我的长衫落纱般——
Metaphor(Children、Gazing Grain、Setting Sun)
Anaphora(we passed)
Imagism
Alliteration
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I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm –
• He glanced with rapid eyes他锐利的双目a • That hurried all around—四处飞顾b • They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—小眼珠似乎透着害
怕,我自忖道c • He stirred his Velvet Head他抖了抖头顶的羽毛d • • Like one in danger, Cautious,我像人受伤时小心翼翼a • I offered him a Crumb给他投了一些面包屑b • And he unrolled his feathers他张开双翼c • And rowed him softer home—像划着船桨回到家里b •
我已经签好遗嘱——分掉了 我所有可以分掉的 东西—-然后我就看见了 一只苍蝇—-

8 美国文学史Emily Dickinson

8  美国文学史Emily Dickinson

SeverThomas Wentworth Higginson, a poetry critic for The Atlantic Monthly Reverend Charles Wadsworth, toward whom Dickinson might possess a deep love passion and wrote a total of 366 poems within a single year after he left for California. The third was Benjamin Newton, a law student in her father's office
Poetry about Love
One group treats the suffering and frustration love can cause, such as the pain of separation and the futility of finding happiness. "I could not die—with you — / For one must wait/to shut the other's Gaze down — /You— could not —" The other focuses on the physical aspect of desire, the mysterious magnetism between sexes, etc. (in reference to Page 99)
A Bird came down the Walk—
A Bird came down the Walk— He did not know I saw— He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass— And then hopped sidewise to the wall To let a Beetle pass He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around— They looked like frightened Beads, I thought— He stirred his Velvet Head …….

lecture_4 美国文学史课件

lecture_4 美国文学史课件
The best poetic effect is visual and concert. Thus an imagist’s image represents a moment of revealed truth, truth revealed by a physical object and seen as such.
•1912---1914: Pound took over and championed the poetry.
• 1914---1917: Amy Lowell took over from Pound and pushed the movement in to the period of “Amygism” as Pound called it.
It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.
❖ The movement was a training school in whirned their first lessons in poetic art.
Lecture 4 Literature in 1920s 1920s American Literature
I. Background: 1. Economic Boom : “Dollar Decade” carefree prosperity pursuit of pleasure Social labor movement almost
precision new rhythms free choice of subject matter

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Whitman’s great work: Leaves of Grass
(Marking the birth of true American poetry) ● Went through 9 editions: 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1889, 1891-92.
Discussion of Dickinson’s Poem “Success Is Counted Sweetest”
◆ Who are “the purple host”? ◆ Who is “he” in the last stanza?
◆ Why is success “counted sweetest by those who never succeed”?
Whitman’s Poetics
● Whitman’s poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic “I” (usually a triangular relationship: “I” the poet, subject in the poem and “you” the reader. ● Whitman is also radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers is “free verse”.
Whitman has been compared to a mountain in American literary history.
His innovations in diction and versification, his frankness about sex, his inclusion of the commonplace and the ugly and his censure of the weakness of the American democratic practice paved his way to a share of immortality in American Literature.

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3.Three stages of Imagist Movement
•1908—1909: began in London, Hulme founded a poet’s club, Hulme insisted that “ absolutely accurate presentation and no verbiage”.
All forces seemed to be pulling apart, no mythical center, God expelled from universe in spiritual waste land, life---meaningless, futile, homeless, estranged.
Fitzgerald: (1896----1940)
• Life: • Works: This Side of Paradise 1920 The Beautiful and Damned 1921 Flappers and Philosophers Tales of the Jazz Ape---- collection of stories
He was for the most part of life trying to offer Confucius philosophy to save the west.
He saw life was sordid and was personal crushing oppressio more ambitious and eternal.
Importance:
❖ It is a rebellion against the traditional poetics that failed to reflect the new life of new country.

英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件美国文学Unit 4 Emily Dickinson

英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件美国文学Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
头脑比天空更辽阔。因为,一个 能够轻易地容纳另一个。头脑比大海 更深远,因为一个能够吸收另一个。 头脑正好等于上帝的分量。
狄金森这首诗意象新奇,意境深 邃,不为传统观念束缚,表现了诗人 对直觉、对智慧的礼赞。
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The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — The one the other will contain
To tell one’s name — the livelong June!
To an admiring Bog!
当个名流——多么——无聊! 像个青蛙——何等火爆——
终生一个六月——对一片—— 倾倒的池塘——把自己聒噪!
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The Brain—Is Wider Than the Sky—
英美文学欣赏(第四版)
➢ Questions
1.How many specific features can you list of Emily Dickinson’s poetry? 2.What is Dickinson’s attitude toward death? How does she express her attitude?
The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground —
我们停在一座房舍前 它好似土包隆起在地上——
屋顶几乎模糊难辨—— 檐 口—— 也 隐 没 在 地 中央——
英美文学欣赏(第四版)
Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day

浪漫主义时期的美国文学 课件

浪漫主义时期的美国文学 课件

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美国文学中的浪漫主义时代是 指18世纪末期到南北战争爆发 前期的这段时间,因为文学的 勃兴与繁荣,又称“美国文艺 复兴”。华盛顿·欧文的《见闻 札记》(The Sketch Book, 1820)的出版宣告了这一伟大 时代的开始,惠特曼的《草叶 集》(Leaves of Grass, 1855) 则标志着浪漫主义文学的高峰。

The importance of the frontier and the wilderness in American literature is for the first time well-illustrated in Cooper’s Leathering-stocking Tales and was to remain a major concern for many later authors. Cooper is the first important American novelist. 库珀在美国文学史上开创了三种不同类型的小说:边疆冒险小说《拓荒者》、革 命历史小说《间谍》、海上冒险小说《舵手》。他还创作了欧洲生活三部曲:《刺客》 (1831)、《黑衣教士》(1832)、《刽子手》(1833)。
In all the major literary genres except drama, writers produced works of an originality and excellence not exceeded in later American history. Romantic writers placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters

lecture_4 美国文学史课件

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❖ It is this movement that helped to open the first stage of modern English and American Poerty.
7. Reprentatives: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Aldington.
Three principles of imagism put forward by Pound: • Direct treatment of thing: • Economy of Expression: • Rhythm:
5. What is an “image” according to Pound:
Fitzgerald: (1896----1940)
• Life: • Works: This Side of Paradise 1920 The Beautiful and Damned 1921 Flappers and Philosophers Tales of the Jazz Ape---- collection of stories
Pound defined an image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in a stage of time. Later he extended this definition as “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 英美文学(1830-1886)Emily Dickinson 英美文学PoetryPre-1861. These are often conventional and sentimental in nature. 1861–1865. This was her most creative period—these poems are more vigorous and emotional. Post-1866. It is estimated that two-thirds of the entire body of her poetry was written before this year.Emily Dickinson 英美文学Structure and synta_1.The e_tensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in Dickinson‘s manuscripts, and the idiosyncratic (特质) vocabulary and imagery, combine to create a body of work that is “far more various in its styles and forms than is commonly supposed”. 2.Since many of her poems were written in traditional ballad stanzas with ABCB rhyme schemes, some of these poems can be sung to fit the melodies of popular folk songs and hymns (赞美诗、圣歌)that also use the common meter, employing alternating lines of iambic tetrameter(四音步) and iambic trimeter(三音步). 3.Dickinson scholar and poet Anthony Hecht finds resonances in Dickinson‘s poetry not only with hymns and song-forms but also with psalms(圣经中的诗) and riddles(迷)。

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emilydickinson英美文学史

Or rather--He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For only Gossamer, my Gown-My Tippet--only Tulle--
Emily Dickinson
(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Early life
• Born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts; a prominent family
• The Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition
• 1861–1865. This was her most creative period—these poems are more vigorous and emotional. Johnson estimated that she composed 86 poems in 1861, 366 in 1862, 141 in 1863, and 174 in 1864. He also believed that this is when she fully developed her themes of life and death.
• And that gave way to the more concentrated obsession with death in her poetry
• In 1884 Emily's obsessions and poetic speculations started to come to a stop when she suffered the first attack of her terminal illny took her last breath at the age of 56. She left behind nearly 2,000 poems.
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我品味未经酿造的饮料
从珍珠镂成的大酒杯里,我品味未经酿造的饮料。 并非莱茵河畔所有的酒桶,都能产出这样的醇酿 我陶醉于清新的孔雀,我豪饮那晶莹的露水,在漫 长的夏季,我常从熔蓝的酒店蹒跚而归。 当“店主人”把酩酊的蜜蜂驱赶出毛地黄花的门庭, 蝴蝶也不再浅酌细斟,我却要更加大口狂饮。 直到天使摇晃着白色小帽,和那些圣徒,奔向明窗, 争看这小小的酒徒 斜倚着太阳。
摧残了,孤独地,在此—
接着他们,一块理智的板,碎了, 接着撞直了一个世界,在每次掉落,
接着完成了知晓—接着—
I died for beauty—but was scarce 殉美
我为美死去,但是还不曾 于是象亲戚在夜间相遇, 安息在我的墓里, 我们便隔墙谈天, 又有个为真理而死去的人 直到青苔爬到了唇际, 来躺在我的隔壁。 将我们的名字遮掩。 他悄悄地问我为何以身殉? “为了美,”我说。 “而我为真理,两者不分家; 我们是兄弟两个。”
II Her poems (
the recluse of Amherst)
The Poems of Emily Dickinson 艾米丽迪金森诗歌集
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
因为我不能够停下等死

I Heard A Fly Buzz—when I Died A Narrow Fellow in the Grass We Learned the Whole of Love My Life Closed Twice before its Close I’ll tell you how the sun rose
Her Achievement
She broke free of the conventional iambic pentameter She explored the inner life of the individual She was regional (New Englander) She was idiosyncratic in her frequent use of dashes and unique use of capitals. Her concise, direct, and simple diction and syntax
She sees nature as both gaily benevolent and cruel. While death bestows a dreadful blow on her life. Her close two tutors, her parents and her young nephew. 3. she writes about inner life. 4. On the ethical level, she emphasizes free will and human responsibilities. 5. love and immortality
Two collections of her poems
Her theme
1.Puritanism. Dickinson was a Puritan, like her family. We can see this influence in a lot of her poetry. She writes a lot about God, where she refers to the death of two of her teachers. She also writes a lot about religious doubt- she is agnostic, which means that she was often unsure of whether God existed. She uses religious imagery in “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”, when she writes about a snake- a symbol of the Devil in Christian thought. 2. death and nature
Literary status
A secluded poetess “Mother” of American Poetry and American Modern Poetry
I Her Life
She was born into a Puritan family in Massachusetts. Her father was a liberal and a lawyer, so they had money the whole life. She could not work (a woman) but she did not have to get married because of her families wealth. She was very quiet and sensitive as a girl but she was also very thoughtful, and sometimes rebellious at school. She was sent away from her boarding school because she refused to sign an oath saying that she would devote the rest of her life to Jesus Christ. She was a recluse, a solitary, she did not like going to parties, or having boring conversations with other people. She was passionate about gardening and writing poetry.
A distant view of her homestead
She had a small group of friends who she liked a lot, but was not concerned with people she did not know well. Her best friend, Susan, married her brother, and they lived next door to Emily. She died in 1886, of a kidney problem. After she died, a volume of her poems appeared, but it was not until 1955 when Harvard University brought out a Complete Works, that all 1,775 of her poems were available for us to read.
Her home
Her father, a Whig lawyer and treasurer of Amherst College Read widely such as the Bible, Shakespeare, and Keats She began writing seriously in her twenties She composed 1775 poems altogether, and only 7 were published in her life
我感受了一场葬礼,在脑中
我感受了一场葬礼,在脑中 哀悼者来来往往 不停地踏啊—踏啊—直到仿佛 感觉是在分裂— 当他们坐下时, 一个礼仪,像是一面鼓— 在不停敲啊—敲啊—直到我想 我的头脑正在麻木— 接着我听到抬棺的声音 吱呀声传过了我的灵魂 又是,那些长筒靴,地面
似乎天下就是一只铃铛
而人,只是一只耳朵 而我,静默,一个陌生的种

狂野之夜,狂野之夜 倘若我与你结伴 今宵必将 奢侈无边! 风,怎能吹进 心的港湾, 去吧,指南针! 去吧,航海图!
伊甸园里踏浪逐波! 啊,大海! 但愿我今夜 舟泊你的心怀!
Her Style
Short lines and bold imagery Strange, different, and whimsical Original and unconvential irregularities Paradox
Questions
Analyze the theme of Emily Dickinson
Compare Emily Dickinson with Emily Bronte.
Emily Dickinson
艾米莉·迪金森
1830-1886
The Outline
Literary status The Life of Emily Dickinson The Poetry Wild Nights The Theme The Style Questions Her Achievement
Wild nights—wild nights狂野之夜
Wild nights—wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a Heart in port Done with the Compass Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden Ah, the Sea! Might I but moor Tonight—in thee!
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