04-Allan-PoePPT课件

“The Masque of the Red Death”
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“Ms. Found in the Bottle”
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “Annabel Lee” “To Helen”
《红色死亡的 化妆舞会》
“The Raven”
《毛格街杀人案
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Poe’s Poetics (“The Philosophy of Composition”):
Coveted(觊觎) her and me.
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And this was the reason that, long ago， In this kingdom by the sea，
A wind blew out of a cloud by night, chilling My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
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Poe’s Works:
A: Poems (48)
B: Short stories (68)
《奇异怪
C: literary theory (3 typical)
诞故事集
D: novels (2)
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“Tales of the Grotesque and the Arab《esq瓶ue子” 里发现
And the stars never rise, but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride，
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I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love---
I and my ANNABEL LEE -With a love that the winged seraphs(六翼天使) of Heaven
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Lecture 4:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
➢ father of modern short story ➢ father of detective story ➢ father of psychoanalytic criticism
the heaven,
Went envying her and me--
Yes！--That was the reason
（as all men know, in this
kingdom by the sea）
That the wind came out of the
cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my
-- A poem should be short, readable at one sitting. -- A poem is to produce a feeling of beauty. “… the death … of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” -- “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.” -- Poetry is “the rhythmical creation of beauty”.
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---- the last poem that Poe composed
---- first published in November, 1849, a month or so after his death.
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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
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The Theory of Short Stories -- Tales of Terror:
1) Fantasy: imagined world where everyday reality is distorted
2) exploration of the mind (psychological) 3) single effect: be short enough to be read at
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE .
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For the moon never beams without bringing
me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ;
Ironically, it was in Europe that Poe enjoyed respect and welcome.
Bernard Shaw said: “Poe was ‘the greatest journalistic critic of his time; his poetry is exquisitely refined; and his tales are “complete works of art”.
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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Local legend in Charleston, South Carolina
Poe's wife Virginia
the product of Poe's gloomy imagination
So that her highborn kinsman(高 贵亲戚) came
And bore her away from me， To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
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The angels, not half so happy in
That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Father of the Modern short story, detective and psychological analysis in America
His life was precarious, frequently destitute (completely impoverished)
Poe worked hard at structuring his tales of aristocratic madmen, self-tormented murderers, neurasthenic necrophilia’s, and other deviant types so as to produce the greatest possible horrific effects (1809—1849)
Poe, a pioneering aesthetician, psychological investigator, and literary technician.
Short life, unsettled, tempestuous, acidly disputed person, misunderstood, and controversial
ANNABEL LEE .
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in heaven above， Nor the demons down under the sea，
Poe’s reputation was first made in France. Charles Baudelaire
said that “Edgar Poe, who isn’t much in America, must
become a great man in Franc-e.”
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assonance, repetition, etc. -- be symbolic (symbol: one set of particular
which stands for another) -- three elements: appropriacy, beauty and
effect (三要素：工整、美、效果)
Emerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” ， Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. And Whitman was the only famous literary figure present at the Poe Memorial Ceremony in 1875.
one setting; subject is terror derived from revenge 4) terrible atmosphere (意象词汇营造气氛)
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Evaluation
Poe remained the most controversial and most misunderstood literary figure in the history of American literature.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
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Acrostic Poems
Eerie stories and poems Decorate our imagination. Both Good and evil Are challenged along with Reality. Also, Love and insanity Lurk through the pages and Anthologies. You will Never know what is to happen next. Problems of murder and mystery, Oddities and wonderment are Expressed with such peculiari-ty only he could achieve. 3
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Poe’s poetic theory: poetry should
-- appeal to the sense of beauty not truth -- be indefinite (虚无) -- be musical, using devices such as alliteration,