Whitman-惠特曼-作品-介绍-英文版PPT课件

stanza .This is like enclosing a whole list of ideas in
an envelop .
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The Themes in his poetry
• Equality • Divinity • Multiplicity • Self-reliant spirit • Death ,beauty of death • Expansion of America • Brotherhood and social solidarity • Pursuit of love and happiness
• He has been compared to a mountain in American literary history.
• Contemporary American poetry, whatever school or form, bears witness to his great influence.
Walt Whitman
1819－1892
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Walt Whitman
• Life • Contribution • Influence • Works
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Life
• Walter Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island ,the second son of a house-builder.
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• Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, becoming acquainted with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible.
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Life
• In the fall of 1848, he founded a “Free Soil" newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman, and continued to develop the unique style of poetry.
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Leaves of Grass
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Leaves of Grass
The title :
It is significant that Whitman entitled his book Leaves of Grass .He said that where there is earth , where there is water , there is grass . Grass , the most common thing with the greatest vitality , is an image of the poet himself ,a symbol of the then rising American nation and an embodiment of his ideals About democracy and freedom .
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Influence
• Through him, American poets finally freed themselves from the old English traditions.
• His best work has become part of the common property of Western culture.
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Life
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Contribution
• One of the great innovators in American literature.
• He gave America its first genuine epic poem: Leaves of Grass.
• He created the “ Free verse ” : the verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern, the verse without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
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Leaves of Grass
Free verse :
A kind of poetry that does not conform to consistent meter patterns ,rhyme (The line is the rhythmical unit as in the poetry of English bible).
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Works
• Mainly works • Leaves of Grass • O Captain! My Captain!
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Mainly works
• Leaves of Grass • Song of Myself • I hear America singing • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking • Drum Taps • O Captain! My Captain!
Envelop structure :
Often in Whitman’s poetry , the first line begins
with the subject ,and then more and more lines list
modifiers till the verb appears in the last line of the
• In 1855, Whitman took out a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
• During the Civil War ,Whitman worked as a volunteer nurse.
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Life
• Whitman died in 1892 because of his bad health ,he was buried in Harleigh(哈利公 墓).