Concord-Hymn.ppt

1、Concord Hymn,Ralph Waldo Emerson,By group three,Background Analysis Influence,By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sl

2、eeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.,敌人早已在幽寂中安睡，胜利者也在幽寂中沉埋。湮灭的时光里桥已倾颓，随深暗的河水归向大海。,河上那座简陋的木桥旁， 旗帜曾翻卷着四月的风。农夫们在这里换上戎装，打响了声震全球的一枪。,On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set to-day a votive stone;That memory may their deed redeem,When, like our sires,

3、our sons are gone.Spirit, that made those spirits dare,To die, and leave their children free,Bid Time and Nature gently spareThe shaft we raise to them and thee,今日的岸边宁静而翠绿，我们在碑石里寄托追思，愿荣光能在记忆中永驻，当子孙和先祖一样消逝。,灵啊，是你赐他们勇敢，为后代的自由慷慨赴死，别让碑石在岁月里凋残：它属于他们，也属于你。,Background,Concord Hymn is an 1837 poem by Americ

4、an writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was written for a memorial to the Battle of Concord during the American Revolution,Emerson had been traveling through Europe; upon his return to the United States in 1833 he first lived in Newton, Massachusetts before moving to Concord in October 1834 .The home stan

5、ds less than a hundred paces from the spot where the battle took place. Shortly before his marriage to Lydia Jackson in 1835, Emerson purchased a home on the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike which he named Bush. He quickly became one of the leading citizens in Concord and gave a public lecture to comm

6、emorate the 200th anniversary of the towns founding on September 12, 1835.,The “Concord Hymn” was written at the request of the Battle Monument Committee. As part of Concords Independence Day celebration on July 4, 1837. Its original title was Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, Ap

7、ril 19, 1836.,Analysis,In the poem, Emerson elevates the event above mere local history and instead sets Concord as the center of the American nation. However , as scholar Lawrence Buell notes, Emersons poem removes the specific details of the battle and presents a more general spirit of revolution

8、and freedom. That spirit, Emerson hopes, will outlive those who fought in the battle.,Shot heard round the world,The Shot heard round the world has come to represent several historical incidents. The line referred to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Later, in Europe and the Commonwea

9、lth of Nations, the phrase became synonymous with the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and plunged Europe into World War I. Since then, the phrase has also been used to allude to the importance of single actions in sporting and other cultural and social events,Emersons poem became the most-

10、remembered aspect of the dedication of the monument; it was widely republished in newspaper accounts of the day. In particular, Emersons line about the shot heard round the world has become known in popular memory.,Influence,In United States, the poem has been included in the textbook until the 1930 s. Alt