I Hear America Singing英文诗歌鉴赏

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hatter, woodcutter, ploughboy, and mother.
Verbs: measure, make, singing, sit, stand, sewing, washing
Phrases
"blithe and strong" "delicious singing," and
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Free verse (自由体诗)
A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of
traditional versification. The free in free verse
refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter
Whitman's attitude is uplifting and positive.
Whitman praises the work values and ethics of the American people
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theme
• From urban to rural, from sea to land, creative labor exists everywhere, which is the core of American dream.
• The poem consists of Whiteman’s all concepts of modern people and life : singing for the flourishing and democratic America, showing the dignity and greatness of the workers, full of
and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ
familiar poetic devices such as assonance,
alliteration, imagery, caesura, figures of speech,
etc., and their rhythmic effects are dependent on
"strong, melodious songs"a
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Appreciation
The image
People: happy ,strong, proud, confident, hardworking
Country: peaceful, productive, promising
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Appreciation
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Leaves of Grass
Whitman wrote in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
I Hear America Singing
——Walt Whitman
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America's first "poet of democracy"
•American poet, essayist ,journalist, and humanist •The father of free verse •Main article: Leaves of Grass
uplifting and positive. each person is unique, but united .
freedom
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I Hear America Singing
——Walt Whitman
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Appreciation
Main idea
It presents the picture of the Americans who from all occupations are singing for their work
Whitman gave many otherwise overlooked people, genders and groups not only a melody, but he gave America its own, unique song in the world.
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Tone
Cheerful , happy, optimistic
Language
Simple and even rather crude; Have a tendency to oral English
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Appreciation
Diction
Nouns: mechanics, mason, work, deckhand, shoemaker,
optimistic attitudes to life and the world.
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My reflection
the poet envisions a country of people working for the greater good of mankind.
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the pure sensuousness, the direct physicality of these words and images both shocked and liberated his audiences.
the syllabic cadences emerging from the text.
The term is often uesd in its French language
form, vers libre.
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My reflection
each person is important to socisity. each person is needed for the various trades that make the country run smoothly.
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