课外补充材料--惠特曼和迪金森的诗.doc

When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer By Walt Whitman (1865)When I heard the learnd astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts, the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting heard the learned astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wanderd off by myselfIn the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Lookd up in perfect silence at the stars.Questions: 1. Whats the contrast between “I” and the astronomer?2. In the first part of the poem, sentences are quite long. Whats your impression on this?3. Whats the contrast between the first part and the second part of the poem?4. What does the poet say on nature and science in this poem? What kind of message is conveyed in this poem? Poem 328, Emily DickinsonA Bird came down the WalkHe did not know I sawHe bit an Angleworm in halvesAnd eat the fellow , raw ,And then he drank a DewFrom a convenient GrassAnd then hopped sidewise to the WallTo let a Beetle passHe glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all aroundThey looked like frightened Beads , I thoughtHe stirred his Velvet HeadLike one in danger , Cautious ,I offered him a CrumbAnd he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer homeThan Oars divide the Ocean ,Too silver for a seamOr Butterflies , off Banks of NoonLeap, plashless as they swim. - Question: understand the last two stanzas.Poem 449, Emily DickinsonI died for beautybut was scarceAdjusted in the TombWhen One who died for Truth, was lainIn an adjoining Room He questioned softly “Why I failed?“For beauty”, I replied“And Ifor TruthThemselves are OneWe Brethren are”, He saidAnd so, as Kinsmen, met a Night We talked between the RoomsUntil the Moss had reached our lips And covered upour names- beauty and trutha scene that is, by turns, grotesque and compelling, frightening and comforting;Questions: What does it mean when you die for something?Are they (the dead people) special in anything?Is it important or a waste of life if a person dies for something? Does it make any difference?Poem 1732, Emily DickinsonMy life closed twice before its close;It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceiveAs these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven,And all we need of hell. (all we need to know of hell)- 没有离别就不懂得团圆的幸福，而离别的痛苦犹如地狱的煎熬。American Romanticism reached its peak with the appearance of the major authors of the 19th century such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in poetry, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville in fiction. (High Romantics)n