lecture 2-3 英国文学简介

Scansion: a way to mark the metrical
patterns of lines of poetry. In classical poetry, these patterns are based on the different lengths of each vowel sound, and in English poetry, they are based on the different stresses placed on each syllable.
Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it sucked from thee? Yet thou triumphst, and sayst that thou Findst not thy self nor me the weaker now; Tis true; then learn how false fears be: Just so much honor, when thou yieldst to me, Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee
பைடு நூலகம்
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG in which the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.
Edmund Spencer：
The Faerie Queen
《仙后》
Spencerian stanza:斯宾塞诗体
a nine-line verse stanza, the first eight are iambic pentameters and the last line is an iambic hexameter.
As one │for knight│ly giusts │and fierce │encoun│ters fitt .
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1. part theological allegory
2. part social satire
3. concerning the narrator's intense quest for the true Christian life. 4. Symbolical appellation:
Philip Sydney
1.Astrophel and Stella
2.An Apology for Poetry
Sonnet: 商籁体诗，十四行诗
a poem of 14 lines, each line contains ten syllables, and each line is written in iambic pentameter in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a sonnet is
Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed and marriage temple is; Though parents grudge, and you, we are met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that, self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.
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A Gen│tle Knight│ was prick│ing on│ the plaine ,│
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Ycladd│ in might│tie armes│ and sil│ver shielde ,
Wherein │old dints │of deepe │wounds did │remaine , The curell│ markes of│ many│ a bloud│y fielde ; Yet armes │till that │time did│ he nev│er wield : His an│gry steede │did chide│ his fo│ming bitt , As much │disday│ning to │the curbe │to yield : Full jol│ly knight│ he seemd , │and faire│ did sitt ,
“我是你的什么?”
“你是我的优乐美啊！ ”
“原来我是奶茶啊！”
“这样，我就可以把你 捧在手心了！”
John Donne
Conceit：p.52 奇喻
The Flea Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou knowst that this cannot be said A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two And this, alas, is more than we would do.