英国文学 Robert Burns 罗伯特伯恩斯作者及作品介绍（课堂PPT）

1、1Robert BurnsRobert BurnsDec. 16, 20162ContentsContents123Life experienceWritingsInfluence & Honors13Life experienceRobert Burns (17591796)41781-17821786 Irvine(欧文, 加州): flax-dresser 亚麻整理工 Captain Richard Brown Alloway(阿洛韦), Scotland Education(1774)Age 15: principal laborer financial difficultie

2、s, Jamaica John Wilson Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Kilmarnock volume/edition 基尔马诺克卷)517941789 Dumfriesshire 邓弗里斯郡 Jean Armour Patriotic: Dumfriesshire Volunteers lyricist Scottish folk songs Edinburgh: James Johnson old Scots songs The Scots Musical Museum 12 years the French Revolution

3、outspoken champion of the Republican cause 共和事业6 Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youth the rheumatic heart disease 风湿性心脏病 at the age of 37July 21, 179627Writings8Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集苏格兰方言诗集The Tree of Liberty自由村自由村Scots Wha-Hae苏格兰人苏格兰人The Two Dogs两只狗两只狗 My Hear

4、ts in the Highlands我的心呀在高原我的心呀在高原A Red, Red Rose一朵红红的玫瑰一朵红红的玫瑰 Auld Lang Syne往昔的时光往昔的时光9Written in Scotch dialectUsage of traditional elements of folk songs in Scotland: simplicity, pathos and humorImmortalize the Scottish countryside and humble farm life and satirized the sham and cruelty of ruling

5、 classFeatures of Burns PoetryGlorify natural man10 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。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！A Red, Red RoseO, my luve is like a red, red rose, Thats newly sprung in June.O, my luve is lik

6、e the melodie, Thats sweetly playd 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 f

7、are thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel, a while!And I will come again, my luve, Tho it were ten thousand mile!一朵红红的玫瑰11 How dose the narrator in the love song express his love? Using many figures of speeches: simile, metaphor, repetition, hyperbole, personification. Question 1121314 Questio

8、n 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 sprung rose/ sweetly played melody 3) in repetition to stir an echoing effect1516汉乐府诗汉乐府诗汉乐府诗汉乐府诗上邪上邪出自出自铙歌铙歌1818首之一，作者首之一，作者不详。

9、不详。汉乐府诗中有关爱情、婚姻题材的作品多出自民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。都大胆、泼辣。17Burns featuresBurns 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 perpe

10、tuate the sentiment. Burns ushered a tendency that prevailed during the high time of Romanticism: To introduce daily expressions into poetic diction; 1) To pick up the life of common people as poetic subjects and show great sympathy.318Influence & Honors19 A proto-Romantic poet. William Wordswor

11、th, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalize Burns 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 dismantl

12、e what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature.20 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. Simon Fraser Universitys Centre

13、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 1990s21 Title of novelist John Steinbecks 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza o

14、f To a Mouse. American vernacular poets: James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton. Singer songwriter Bob Dylan: selected Burnss 1794 song A Red, Red Rose as the lyric & had the biggest effect on his life.22 The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfields misinterpretation of Bur

15、ns s poem Comin Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfields grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.23Imperial RussiaRussia Elev

16、ated 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” Well placed for endorsement by the Communist regime as a progressive artist. A source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Rus

17、sian people.Remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.Soviet RussiaBurns became the peoples poet of Russia.24StatueStatue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882Burns statue in Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBurns Monument in Dorchester square, Montral,

18、 Qubec25Stamps & currencyBurns stamp,USSR 1956 The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honor Burns with a commemorative stamp, marking the 160th anniversary of his death in 1956. Burns was pictured on the Clydesdale Bank 5 note from 1971 to 2009.2612 In 1996, a musical about Burns s life called A Red Red Rose won third place at a competition for new musicals in Denmark. On 25 January 2008, a musical play about the love affair between