美国文学史chapter 2

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1、AmericanLiteratureStudents：08英语本科1，2班Teacher:ZouLiChapterTwo(I)Edwards,Franklin,andCrevecoeur1.TheIntellectualBackgroundsforthe18thCentury:A.AmericanPuritanism(stilldominating)B.TheGreatAwakeningin1730sand1740sJonathanEdwardsasoneoftheleadingadvocate

2、sC.Deism:aCompromisebetweenScienceandReligionNewtonandhis“PhilosophiaeNaturalisPrincipiaMathematica”(inwhichheputforwardhisfamousprincipleofuniversalgravitation)D.TheInfluenceofTheEnlightenmentMovement(inFrance:Montesquieu,Rousseau,Voltaire)(inEnglan

3、d:AlexanderPope,DanielDefoe)TheWildHoneySuckle    byPhilipFreneau野忍冬花黄杲炘译美好的花呀，你长得：这么秀丽，却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地方——甜美的花儿开了却没人亲昵，招展的小小枝梢也没人观赏；没游来荡去的脚来把你踩碎，没东攀西摘的手来催你落泪。大自然把你打扮得一身洁白，她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的目光，她布置下树荫把你护卫起来，又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁；你的夏天就这样静静地消逝，这时候你日见萎蔫终将安息。那些难免消逝的美

4、使我销魂，想起你未来的结局我就心疼，别的那些花儿也不比你幸运——虽开放在伊甸园中也已凋零，无情的寒霜再加秋风的威力，会叫这花朵消失得一无踪迹。朝阳和晚露当初曾把你养育，让你这小小的生命来到世上，原来若乌有，就没什么可失去，因为你的死让你同先前一样；这来去之间不过是一个钟点——这就是脆弱的花享有的天年。Q1:Whatisexpressedinthepoem?Q2:Howdoesthepoetexpressthetheme?Q3:whatphilosophicalmeaningisi

5、mpliedinPhlipFreneau's"TheWildHoneySuckle"?inthispoemthepoetexpressedakeenawarenessofthelovelinessandtransienceofnature.henotonlymeditatedonmortalitybutalsocelebratednature.itimpliesthatlifeanddeathareinevitablelawofnature,"thewildhoneysuckle"isphili

6、pfreneau'smostwidelyreadnaturallyricwiththethemeoftransience.thecentralimageisanativewildflower,whichmakesadrasticdifferencefromeliteflowerimagestypicaloftraditionenglishpoems.thepoemshowedstrongfeelingsforthenaturalbeauty,whichwasthecharacteristicof

7、romanticpoets.thepoemwaswritteninregular6-linetetrameterstanzas,rhyming:ababcc.thestructureofthepoemisregular,soithastheneoclassicqualityofproportionandbalance.alliteration,assonance,masculinerhymeusedinthepoemalsoproducemusicalormelodiousandharmonio

8、us,whichmatchesthebeautyoftheflower,thebeautyofpoemispartlyembodiedintheeffectscreatedthroughchangesintherhythm.thepoemcontainsiambicstrochaicsandspondee.thearrangementofstressedandunstressedsyllablessuggeststhetransienceofthelifeoftheflowerandthepoe