Emily Dickinson.ppt

1、Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892),He was a catalog of American and European thought and was susceptible to many influences, such as, the Enlightenment and its ideals of the rights and dignity of the individual, toleration, humanitarianism and cosmopolitanism, idealism, the Transcendentalism, German philoso

2、phy（especially Hegels doctrine of a cosmic consciousness with emphasis on cohesiveness and social solidarity）, science, pantheism, the idea of progress, and current American life with its western frontier spirit. He seemed to keep his eyes on society at large comparing with Dickinson. His masterpiec

3、e “Leaves of Grass”（the collection of over 400 poems）,Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886),I. Life,Emily Dickinson was an American lyrical poet, and an obsessively private writer - only seven of her some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23

4、and devoted herself in secret into writing.,I. Life,Failure in love rejection of Christianity Hermit publication of her collection of poetry after death popularity after death.,II. Style,Simplicity, brevity, dash, capital letters, repetition, pun, ambiguity, image, symbol, empathy, image paradox, me

5、taphor, parallelism, omission, alliteration, eye rhyme, half rhyme, ballad form (with various changes), words of different levels,III. Classification of her poetry (Relative classification),A. Love poem expressing the eagerness for love, the pain of love, the flame of love, etc. e.g.Wild Nights! Wil

6、d Nights! My River Runs to Thee Why Do I Love You, Sir? To Wait an HourIs Long That I Always Love The Soul Selects Her Own Society,B. Nature poem,B. Nature poem presenting the beauty and grandeur of nature, the change of the four seasons, animals, flowers, grasses, insects in nature. Nature poem exp

7、ressing her love for nature. Nature is a paradise, a melody. Nature is also mysterious, cold, indifferent, cruel and terrible. e.g. Ill Tell You How the Sun Rose “Nature” is What We See A narrow Fellow in the Grass Apparently with No surprise The Spider is an Artist A Bird Came down the Walk The Bee

8、 is not afraid of me,C. Poem about death,C. Poem about death expresses her idea that death leads to immortality. e.g. Because I Could not Stop for Death Death is a Dialogue Between I Heard a Fly Buzzwhen I died My Life Closed Twice before its Close Ive seen a Dying Eye,D. Religious poems,D. Religiou

9、s poems display her doubt, disbelief, rebellion, rejection of Christianity. e.g. Going to Heaven! Is Heaven a Physician? The Brain is Wider than the Sky Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church Heaven Has Different SignsTo Me,Because I Could not Stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death, He kin

10、dly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the sett

11、ing sun.,Or rather, he passed us; The dews grew quivering and chill, For only gossamer my gown, My tippet only tulle. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the d

12、ay I first surmised the horses heads Were toward eternity.,我无暇去会死亡， 死神便和善地接我前往， 我只好放下劳作与闲暇， 无法拒绝他的殷勤礼让。 我们一起坐上马车， 还有永生陪伴身旁， 我们驱车缓缓前行， 他悠然自得不慌不忙。 我们经过校园， 娱乐的孩子挤满操场， 我们经过田野，麦穗张望， 我们经过西沉的太阳。,或许该是夕阳经过我们吧， 露珠抖动，略显苍凉， 只为我的面纱、斗篷， 还有我薄丝织就的衣裳。 我们经过一个隆起的土堆， 那似乎是一座住房， 屋顶几乎无法看见， 屋架也在地下埋藏。 感觉比一天还要短暂， 虽然自此千万年岁月漫长

13、， 我初次产生这种猜测： 永恒正是马头所向。,我无暇去会死亡,This is a lyric poem. Emily Dickinson is noted for her use of slant rhyme to achieve special effects.,IV. Influence,Dickinsons works have had considerable influence on modern poetry. Her frequent use of dashes, capitalization of nouns off-rhymes broken metre unconventional metaphors have contributed her reputation as one of the most innovative poets of 19th-century American literature. Later feminist critics have challenged the popular conception of the poet as a r