Carl-Sandburg(1).ppt

1、Carl Sandburg,(1878-1967),Carl Sandburg,poet, historian, novelist known for his poetry “the singing bard” a central figure in the “Chicago Renaissance” the successor of Walt Whitman,“indubitably an American in every pulse-beat”-H. L. Mencken virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a g

2、roup of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. indubitably adv.无疑地,确实地,Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the 38-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim.,evaluation,He played a significant role

3、 in the development in American poetry that took place during the first two decades of the 20th century. His emphasis on the tradition of American experience associate him with Hart Crane.,Life,born in Galesburg, Illinois the son of poor Swedish immigrant parents educated at public school quit schoo

4、l following his graduation from 8th grade when he was 13,The Carl Sandburg Home, National Historical Site is located in Flat Rock,worked from the time he was a young boy spent a decade working a variety of jobs: delivered milk harvested ice laid bricks Threshed(脱粒) wheat in Kansas shined shoes(擦鞋) i

5、n Galesburgs Union Hotel traveled as a hobo(lhubu 无业游民, 流浪者) in 1897,He saw first-hand the sharp contrast between rich and poor, a dichotomy(分裂) that instilled(逐渐灌输) in him a distrust of capitalism.,worked as secretary to the Socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912 considered a security risk

6、by Edgar Hoover F.B.I. kept a dossier on him - dossier l dsiei n.卷宗; 档案,Carl Sandburg and Sinclair Lewis,moved with his family to a suburb of Chicago in 1913 worked as an editor of a business magazine,His free verse, reflecting industrial America, gained wide popularity during the Depression years,

7、although his use of everyday language at first shocked readers. In the 1930s Sandburg became active in the Socialist movement.,Carl Sandburg Elementary School in Joliet, IL,From 1945 he lived as a farmer and writer, breeding goats and folk-singing, in Flat Rock, North Carolina.,Carl Sandburg honored

8、 at his 75th birthday on January 6, 1953 in Chicago.,Sandburg died on July 22, 1967 “If God had let me live five years longer I should have been a writer.”,Remembrance Rock: final resting place of Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian,Major Works,Chicago Poems, 1916 芝加哥诗集 The American Songbag, 1927 The

9、 People, Yes,1936 人民，是的,Pulitzer Prize,Abraham Lincoln: The War Years 1939, 4 vols. the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for history,Carl Sandburg: 150th anniversary of birth of Abraham Lincoln,Style,free verse alliteration sometimes slant rhymes,off rhyme,a partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or c

10、onsonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also called half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant rhyme.,Sandburg & Walt Whitman,Because Sandburgs writings celebrated the American spirit, he was often called the successor to Walt Whitman.,The two writers shared an appreciation for the r

11、hythms of the urban life admired common laborers also had a kind of mystic streak(神秘主义倾向) in their ecstatic(狂喜的) expression,The American Songbag,showed his interest in American folksongs These songs Sandburg had heard from railroad men, cowboys, lumberjack, hobos, convicts and workers on farm and in

12、 factory.,The People, Yes,The People, Yes,probably Sandburgs most popular single book From his very first volumes Sandburg was interested in the speech of Midwesterners, spoken by the working class of the industrial cities.,his interest in folk speech and folk expression became a clear feature of hi

13、s poetry. It also gave evidence of the authors epigrammatic (格言警句的) skill and felicitous (恰当的) phrasing(措词),Chicago,Chicago Poems,appeared in 1916 first major collection of poems It presented the poet as a loud-voiced, proud proletarian, full of joy of life. The book included the famous Chicago and

14、Fog.,Chicago,The poem presents a striking and impressive description of the vigor and vitality of Chicago primarily by means of personification, images and metaphor. By using metaphor, the vigor of Chicago is highlighted.,In the first 5 lines, Chicago is compared to those whom are powerful and vigor

15、ous. “hog butcher” “tool maker” “stacker of wheat” “Players with railroads” “the National Freight Handler” “the Big Shoulders”,In the next 13 lines, the poet agrees that Chicago is wicked, crooked and brutal in a straightforward way by assuming a talk between the poet and the personified city, but h

16、e goes on to develop the theme of the poem by stating that Chicago is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning”.,Then in the last 21 lines, the poet delineates(描述) the images of “a tall bold slugger”, “a dog lapping for actions” and “a savage pitted against the wilderness”.,They are all incarnations

17、 of power, strength, vitality and action. So, the use of these images further emphasizes the vigor of Chicago.,Moreover, the varied syntactic pattern(句法模式) and changeable rhythm also reveal the mobility(灵活性), energy, and vigor of Chicago.,Fog,By Carl Sandburg,Fog,雾 雾来了似小猫儿步履悄悄. 它轻轻坐下静静地俯视着港口与市镇然后又移动

18、向前.,The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunchesand then moves on.,Fog,among the few exceptions that mark Sandburgs break from free verse poetry. a mere six lines long written in verse-form an innocent expression of finding beauty in an ordinary world Sou

19、rce: Fog, in Literature Resource Center, Gale Research, 1999,Form,According to criticism, “Carl Sandburg developed a unique and controversial form of free verse and simple style”. “The Fog” is written in verse form, and although short, is a simple expression of an ordinary phenomenon in weather, fog.,The theme,The poem compares the approach of fog with the entrance of a cat into the room.,Fog, like the cats entrance, and departure is unpredictable. Often fog can simply dissipate without notice. It is ghost-like in its appearance,