英国文学 Robert Burns 罗伯特伯恩斯作者及作品介绍

1786
1781-1782
• Irvine(欧文, 加州): flax-dresser 亚麻整理工 • Captain Richard Brown
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• Edinburgh: James Johnson • old Scots songs • The Scots Musical Museum • 12 years
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Influence & Honors
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Britain
• A proto-Romantic poet. • William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and
Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly. • The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalize Burns
And I will come again, my luve, Tho’ it were ten thousaBnd mile!
一朵红红的玫瑰
啊，我爱人象红红的玫瑰， 在六月里苞放； 啊，我爱人象一支乐曲， 乐声美妙、悠扬。
你那么美，漂亮的姑娘， 我爱你那么深切； 我会永远爱你，亲爱的， 一直到四海涸竭。
• Burns ushered a tendency that prevailed during the high time of Romanticism:
1) To introduce daily expressions into poetic diction;
2) To pick up the life of common people as poetic subjects and show great sympathy.
hyperbole, personification.
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Question 2
• Why is this poem so touching to the readers? • 1) original flavor in fiery and direct expression:
directly passionate • 2) artistic recreation; imagery presentation: newly
during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a "heaven-taught ploughman". • Influenced later Scottish writers. Esp. Hugh MacDiarmid, who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature.
and satirized the sham and cruelty of ruling class
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Glorify natural man
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A Red, Red Rose
O, my luve is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.
• Singer songwriter Bob Dylan: selected Burns's 1794 song "A Red, Red Rose" as the lyric & had the biggest effect on his life.
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United States
• The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns 's poem "Comin' Through the Rye" as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfield's grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.
• the French Revolution • outspoken champion of the
Republican cause 共和事业
1789
• Dumfriesshire 邓
弗里斯郡
• Jean Armour
1794
• Patriotic: Dumfriesshire Volunteers • lyricist • Scottish folk songs
• Elevated as the archetypal poet of the people.
• Expressed his own egalitarianism in poems such as his "Birthday Ode for
George Washington" or his "Is There for Honest Poverty”
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July 21, 1796
• Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youth
• the rheumatic heart disease
风湿性心脏病
• at the age of 37
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Writings
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Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集
• The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.
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Russia
Burns became the "people's poet" of Russia.
• Simon Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns' poetry.
• 'Gung Haggis Fat Choy' is a hybrid of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day, celebrated in Vancouver since the late 1990s
O, my luve is like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou , my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun!
And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel, a while!
• Alloway(阿洛韦), Scotland • John Wilson
• Education
• Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect
• (1774)Age 15: principal laborer (Kilmarnock volume/edition 基尔马诺克卷)
A source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Russian people.
Remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Imperial Russia
Russia
Soviet Russia
sprung rose/ sweetly played melody • 3) in repetition to stir an echoing effect
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汉乐府诗
■汉乐府诗《上邪》出自《铙歌》18首之一，作 者不详。
■汉乐府诗中有关爱情、婚姻题材的作品多出自民 间或下层文人之手，在表达男女之间的爱与恨时 都大胆、泼辣。
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Canada
• Scottish Canadians have embraced Robert Burns as a kind of patron poet and mark his birthday with festivities.
• 'Robbie Burns Day' is celebrated from Newfoundland and Labrador to Nanaimo.
直到四海涸竭，亲爱的， 直到太阳把岩石消熔！ 我会永远爱你，亲爱的， 只要生命无穷。
再见吧，我唯一的爱人， 再见吧，小别片刻！ 我会回来的，我的爱人， 即使万里相隔！
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Question 1
• How dose the narrator in the love song express his love? • Using many figures of speeches: simile, metaphor, repetition,
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Burns’ features
• His great success was largely due to his comprehensive knowledge and excellent mastery of the old song traditions.
• His poetry have a musical quality that helps to perpetuate the sentiment.
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United States
• Title of novelist John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of "To a Mouse. "
• American vernacular poets: James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton.
• Well placed for endorsement by the Communist regime as a "progressive"
artist.
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Statue
Statue of Burns in Dumfries town
The Tree of Liberty Scots Wha-Hae
自由村 苏格兰人
The Two Dogs
两只狗
My Heart’s in the Highlands
我的心呀在高原
A Red, Red Rose
一朵红红的玫瑰
Auld Lang Syne
往昔的时光
来自百度文库
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Features of Burns' Poetry
Robert Burns
Dec. 16, 2016
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Contents
1 Life experience 2 Writings 3 Influence & Honors
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Life experience
Robert Burns (1759—1796)
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• financial difficulties, Jamaica
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Written in Scotch dialect
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Usage of traditional elements of folk songs in Scotland:
simplicity, pathos and humor
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Immortalize the Scottish countryside and humble farm life