Break-break-break-Tenyson.ppt

1、Break, Break, Break -Tennyson,1 Break,1 break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O2 Sea! And I would3 that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.1 2 O, well for the fishermans boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay!4

2、3 And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! 4 Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags,5 O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.,Words,1.Break: To crash into a

3、shore and change into foam 2.O: Interjection used before the name of a person or thing addressed by a poet. It is intended to express deep yearning or surprise, joy, pain, fear, wonderment, and other emotions or sensations. 3.would: Wish 4.bay: Part of the sea that cuts into the shoreline. A bay for

4、ms after the sea erodes soft rock between masses of hard rock. A bay is smaller than a gulf but larger than a cove. 5.crags: Rough, steep masses of rock at the shoreline,Rhyme Scheme and Meter Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza have end rhyme. O, well for the fishermans boy, That he shouts with his sister

5、 at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! The meter in the poem varies, but the anapestic foot creates the musicality of the poem, as in the following lines: iamb anapest anapest iamb But O| for the TOUCH | of a VAN | ished HAND, anapest anapest anapestAnd the SOUND

6、| of a VOICE| that is STILL!,Lines 1-4 Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. The speaker addresses the ocean directly, telling the waves to break, break, break onto the cold gray stony shore,expressing his saddness.

7、 After telling the sea to keep doing its thing, the speaker regrets that he cant express his thoughts. He doesnt come out and say, I cant utter/ the thoughts, he says that his tongue cant utter them. This makes him seem kind of passive hes not speaking, his tongue is doing it. Hes not really thinkin

8、g, either the thoughts arise in him almost spontaneously, without effort.,Lines 5-8 O, well for the fishermans boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! The speaker thinks its all well and good that the fishermans kid is shouting a

9、nd playing with his sister. Repeating the same sentence structure, the speaker says its great for the sailor who is singing in his boat. The repetition makes it sound like maybe the speaker doesnt really think its all well and good for these people to be cheerful. Is he jealous, perhaps, of their ha

10、ppiness? Or of their ability to communicate it, since he admitted back in Stanza 1 that his tongue cant utter/ the thoughts that arise?,Lines 9-12 And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanishd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! The fancy, stat

11、ely ships pass by the speaker and head to their haven, or protected port. The port is under the hill, so there must be a big hill overlooking it. The speaker isnt distracted by the ships, though. Sure, he notices them, but his mind is elsewhere. Hes just wishing he could touch the vanishd hand and h

12、ear the voice that is still. This is the first explanation of why the speaker is so sad. Hes grieving for someone he loved who is now dead. He doesnt come out and describe the dead friend, though he just lists a series of missing things: the hand and the voice. The lost friend is described as a seri

13、es of absent parts.,Lines 13-16 Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. The speaker repeats the first line again, telling the waves to break, break, break again. But its repetition with a difference: in the first sta

14、nza, he tells the waves to break on thy cold gray stones, and in the last stanza, he tells the waves to break at the foot of thy crags. Its not exactly the same time has gone by, and even the breaking of the waves has changed slightly. Maybe its the tide coming in. The waves have changed slightly, a

15、nd we see that time is passing, despite the tragedy that the speaker has suffered. Mournfully he says that the happy old days when his friend was alive will never return.,Figures of Speech,Alliteration,(Line 8): boat on the bay (Lines 9-12): Stanza 3 uses this figure of speech as follows: And the st

16、ately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! (Line 15): day that is dead Conveying a sort of melodiouse quality.Making these words sound more impressive,Personification and metaphor,(Lines 1 and 2): Break, break, bre

17、ak, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!,The poet regards the sea as a human being .The sea is the listenner and outlet of the poets thought.,Repetition,Line 13 repeats Line 1; Line 7 repeats the first two words of Line 5 The repetition in Break, Break, Break both suggests the consistency of the speakers

18、 grief and also its slow-but-steady evolution.,Paradox,Line 15-16 But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!,The vanished hand and voice can not be touched and heard,the poet expresses his momeries of his friend.,Contrast,O, well for the fishermans boy, That he s

19、houts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. The boy ,the lad ,and the ships all have their happiness ,comparing with the poets sadness.it gives us a deep impression.,It clearly shows that

20、man passes away so quickly but the scene of nature remains the same. In this poem the poet mourns the death of a dear friend who will never come back. He depicts the picture of sea and its waves constantly striking against cold gray stones. He also draws the image of fisher mans boy singing in his b

21、oat or at play with his sister and the grand ships coming to the harbour. He believes that these images are more abiding than the Life of a man.The poet thinks that these things remain unchanged. The world continues to be busy and beautiful, but the happy moments of ones life never stay. Human life

22、changes from childhood to youth, then to old age and finally embraces death. As man grows old the sweet memories of his life become a part of the vanished past. Thus, between past and present man suffers and complains.The poet is missing his lost friend while standing on the sea bank. He expresses his sorrow that he will never feel the soft touch of that hand and will never h