诗歌第四讲

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
Each Sentence says one thing---for example. “Although it was a dark rainy day when the Adjective walked by, I shall remember the pure and sweet expression on her face until the day I perish from the green, effective earth. Or, “Will you please close the window, Andrew?” Or, for example, “Thank you, the pink pot of flowers on the window still has changed color recently to a light yellow, due to the heat from the boiler factory which exists nearby.”
Questions 1. How do you appreciate the poet’s seriousness in the comic tone? 2. What are the connection between the last stanza with the first three stanzas? 3. What does the title signify?
In the springtime the Sentences and the Nouns lay silently on the grass. A lonely Conjunction here and there would call, “And! But!” But the Adjective did not emerge.
Unmoved---she notes the Chariots---pausing--At her low Gate---Unmoved---an Emperor be kneeling
Upon he Mat---
I’ve known her---from an ample nation--Choose One--Then --- close the Valves of her attention--Like Stone---
Leabharlann Baidu
As the adjective is lost in the sentence, So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat--You have enchanted me with a single kiss Which can never be undone Until the destruction of language.
Questions 1. Explain the extended meaning of “the pilgrim soul” in line 7. 2. The second stanza is most touching. Why? 3. How do you appreciate the love expressed in the poem? 4. Should Maud Gonne accept the love of W. B. Yeats?
Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?---
Questions 1. Who is the possible Society selected by the Soul in this lyric? Is the Society open to different explanations? 2. Three pairs of contrasting images are used in this poem. Point them out and explain the effect. 3. Would you agree that this poem presents a human soul as alone, majestic, self-sufficient, proud? If so, how is the impression conveyed? 4. How is the theme of the poem achieved by the use of metaphor and imagery?
When You Are Old William Bulter Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
Permanently Kenneth Koch One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were stuck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.
And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea; What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Questions 1. What is the most striking rhetorical device in this lyric? How is it used? 2. What is the love’s philosophy in Shelley’s mind?
The Soul Selects Her Own Society Emily Dickinson The Soul selects her own society--Then---shuts the Dooe--To her divine Majority--Present no more---