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1、ITOPIC:WaltWhitmanandOCaptain！MyCaptain！A)IntroductiontoWaltWhitmanB)MajorworksandspecialfeaturesC)StudyofOCaptain！MyCaptain！WaltWhitman(1819-1892)Topic1―IntroductiontoWaltWhitmanLiteraryposition◆manofthepeople:work—thecountry’sdemocraticspirit.◆LeavesofGrassalteredthecour
2、seofAmericanpoetry:free-verseform;sexuality;democraticsensibility;extremeRomanticassertion◆WhitmanisoneofthemostimportantfiguresinAmericanpoetichistory.(choosingfreeverseashismediumofexpression.)◆“IamnotblindtotheworthofthewonderfulgiftofLeavesofGrass…Ifindincomparablethin
3、gssaidincomparablywell…Ifindthecourageoftreatmentthatsodelightsusandwhichlargeperceptiononlycaninspire…Igreetyouatthebeginningofagreatcareer.”―Emerson◆“Agreatcareer,whichyetmusthavehadalongforegroundsomewhere,forsuchastart.”―Emerson◆“EmersonfreedWhitmanformysticalinsightst
4、hatwerebeyondhisownken.”―Spiller◆“…Whitman,becauseofthefavoringcircumstancesofademocraticidealandanopensociety,becameperhapsthegreatestofmodernbards.”―Spiller◆D.H.Lawrence,theBritishnovelistandpoet,accuratelycalledhimthepoetofthe“openroad.”◆NotonlytheformofWhitman’sfreever
5、sebutalsohisthoughtofdemocracyhavebeeninfluentialinworldliterature,andremaintheinspiringsourcesoftwentieth-centuryliterature.Topic1―IntroductiontoWaltWhitman◆Brooklyn,LongIsland,NewYork.sonofcarpenter◆personofmixedblood(DutchandNewEnglandBritish)◆anofficeboy/theLongIslande
6、r◆Americanfreeversepoet◆ademocrat◆anindividualist◆anationalist◆apantheistPointsofview（1）Worldoutlook◆WhitmanwasstronglyopposedtothesouthernsideduringtheCivilWar,favoringthedemocraticnorth.Forhim,slaveryabusedhumanity.Peopleshouldbeequallytreated,whethersouthernersornorther
7、ners,WhitesorBlacks.“SongofMyself”canbestudiedasacaseinpoint,whichrevealssuchaworldofequality,voidofrankandhierarchy.◆Heisfirstlyanindividualist.Asanindividualist,artistically,hetriedtofindawaytoexpresshisuniquefeelingsabouthimself,thenation,andthecosmos.Accordingly,hecrea
8、tedastyleandlanguageofhisown.WhitmanwasgreatlyinfluencedbyEmerson,thetranscendentalmaster
