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1、Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 1.简介 • A part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism • The father of free verse Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. • Features of Whitman’s poetry :1. The use of a certain pronoun
2、―I‖ 2. Two principles A. Parallelism or a rhyme of thought B. Phonetic recurrence ( the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of the line, in the middle or at the end) 3. The adopt of ―free verse‖---poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme 4. The use of colorful words
3、and vivid images (example) • Major works Leaves of Grass Song of Myself I hear America Singing 2. 草叶集 课文中出现的 ONE’S-SELF I SING, Among the Multitude, When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame, A Noiseless Patient Spider 都是出自草叶集。 Leaves of Grass: A collection of Whitman‘s poems and his lifelong ac
4、hievementWhitman experimented in his works with new poetic form of free verse and oral lg. Thus, Leaves of Grass has become landmark in American literary history, which represents the poet, the people, and the nation in the 19th America and celebrates the future of the nation and the ideals
5、 of equality, democracy, dignity, self-reliant spirit and joy of common people.It marked the birth of truly American poetry, which changed Whitman from a conventional, undistinguishedman into one ofAmerican‘s greatest and most original poets. It has attained almost universal acceptance as A
6、merica‘s greatest book of poems.It has been praised as ―Democratic Bible‖(共和圣经) and as American Epic. The most famous pieces are: Song of myself, there was a child went fort, etc. 3. 赏析 ONE’S-SELF I SING 当时他对处于上升阶段的资本主义美国充满信心, 对美国的民主抱有幻想。他所体现的主旨和基本内容就是―个性‖和―自我‖。诗人认为一切之―中心‖的个性及其代表者就是―我自己‖,
7、是像―草叶‖一样平凡的人和事物。诗人一方面把自己描写成为一个普通的美国人, 另一方面又赋予自己超人的能力。选自草叶集，主题中心思想参照草叶集即可 Alliteration 头韵(simple & separate; passion & pulse & power; free & form‘d) Phonetic recurrence 重复(―I sing‖四次; ―alone‖两次; ―of‖两次; ―worthy‖和―worthier‖) 突出主题的关键词的头一个字母大写 (Self; Democr
