英国伟大诗人威廉布莱克-William-BlakePPT优秀课件

1、1 The Romantic Period Neoclassicism: reason, order, accuracy and elegant wit Romanticism: passion, emotion, and natural beauty nThe romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats are the major romantic poets. 2 n Imagination is the vital faculty th

2、at creates new wholes out of disparate elements. It is in solitude, in communion with the natural universe that man can exercise this most valuable faculty. This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity; it is the divine bosom. Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our h

3、ope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world. 3 nNature comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Wordsworth is the closest to nature He conceives nature as “the nurse,/ the guide, /The guardian of my heart, and soul/ Of all my moral being” 4 nPoetry should be free from

4、 all rules They turned to the humble people and the common everyday life for subjects. Wordsworth defines the poet as “a man speaking to men”, and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility” 5 n To escape from a world that had bec

5、ome excessively rational, materialistic and ugly, the Romantics would turn to other times and places. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey chose to live by the lakeside so as to escape from the “madding crowd”; Byron and Shelley rejected the entire English society by their self-imposed exile. In order

6、to achieve the effect of the individual vision, they would turn to the medieval or renaissance, or the mysterious east or even the supernatural for poetic resources and inspiration. 6 William Blake To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your ha

7、nd, And Eternity in an hour. 一沙见世界，一沙见世界， 一花窥天堂。一花窥天堂。 掌中握无限，掌中握无限， 须臾纳永恒。须臾纳永恒。 7 8 9 Major Works 1. Poetical Sketches A collection of youthful verse/Joy, Laughter, love and harmony are the prevailing notes 10 2. Songs of Innocence Presenting a happy and innocent world with a delightful tone 3. Son

8、gs of Experience Presenting a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone 11 Questions for Discussion 1.Make a Comparison between Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Language/ tone/ theme 2. Make a tentative Interpretation of the following poem: 12 FROM Songs

9、 of Innocence INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: “Pipe a song about a Lamb!” So I piped with a merry chear. “Piper, pipe that song again”; So I piped: he wept to hear. 13 “Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing

10、 thy songs of happy chear”: So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. “Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.” So he vanishd from my sight, And I pluckd a hollow reed, 14 And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every chil

11、d may joy to hear. 15 London I wander thro each charterd street, Near where the charterd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every infants cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forgd manacles I hear. 16 How the

12、chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new born Infants tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. 17 My Pretty Rose Tree A Flower was

13、 offered to me; Such a flower as May never bore, But I said, “Ive a Pretty Rose-tree,” And I passes the sweet flower oer. Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree, To tend her by day and by night. But my Rose turned away with jealousy, And her thorns were my only delights. 18 Loves secret Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart