song-of-myself.ppt

1、Walt Whitman (18191892) was born in long island, New York state, he is a famous American poet, humanist, he created the poetry as well as Whitman (Free Verse), and its representative works is Leaves of Grass,there are two qustions for you.,1.what is free verse? 2.what is you idea about some people h

2、old that whitman is bisexual?,This poem include 1336 lines, and it was written in Free verse(自由诗体）. This poem is a part of Leaves of Grass.,Outline,meaning rhetoric comment,Song of Myself I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good

3、belongs to you .,我赞美我自己，歌唱我自己，,我承担的你也将承担，,因为属于我的每一个原子也同样属于你。,“I” and “you” stands for a kinds of people or a kind of thought,It emphasize the unity of you and me. It emphasize the closely connection of “I” and “you”,I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer g

4、rass.,我闲步，还邀请了我的灵魂，,我俯身悠然观察着一片夏日的草叶。,alliteration,repeatition,emphasize the unity of body and soul,grass stands for ideal,hope,it can grow at different space,finally it stands for development especial the development of human,My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air, Born he

5、re of parents born from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to ease not till death.,我的舌，我血液的每个原子，是在这片土壤、这个空气里形成的，,是这里的父母生下的，父母的父母也是在这里生下的，他们的父母也一样，,我，现在三十七岁，一生下身体就十分健康，,希望永远如此，直到死去。,Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back

6、a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, 且退一步，明了他们当前的情况而已，但也绝不是忘记 I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, 不论我从善从恶，我允许随意发表意见 Nature without check with original energy. 顺乎自然，保持原始的动力,信条和学派暂时不论，,temporary&s-uspension,personification,he thought nature and human being should be frank and kind to each other,comment,Whitmans opinion:everyone was born equal and of no difference in the nature. His spirit was free and open, he did not judge a person by his or her colour, religion or something like that, he t