Ⅰ. Write the author of each item. 10’
金节1． Anne Bradstreet（The Tenth Mu Lately Sprung Up in America）什么星座最专一
①Contemplation
②To My Dear and Loving Husband
2. Benjamin Franklin
①The Autobiography (early American Dream)
3. Philip Freneau (Poet of American Revolution; The Father of American Poetry)
①The Wild Honey Suckle
②The Indian Burying Ground
③To a Caty-Did
4. Washington Irving (The Father of American Short Story; first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame; regarded as Father of American literature.)
①The legend of Sleep Hollow
②Rip Van Winkle
③The Sketch Book(the beginning of American Romanticism)
5. James Fennimore Cooper
①The Last Mohicans
②Leather Stocking Tales
6. William Cullen Bryant
① Thanatopsis
② To a Water Fowl
7. Edgar Allen Poe (Father of Modern Short Story; Father of Psychoanalysis criticism)
①To Helen
②The Raven
③The Fall of the Hou of Usher
④The Black Cat
8. Ralph Waldo Emerson (leading New England transcendentalist)
①Nature世界地球日手抄报内容
②Self-Reliance
③The American Scholar
9. Henry David Thoreau (an active transcendentalist)
①Walden
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne (a master of symbolism; first great American writer of fiction to work in moralistic tradition. combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism; created a new genre psychological romance)
①The Scarlet Letter
②Twice Told Tales
③The Marble Faun
④Blithedale Romance
⑤浩气长存The Minister’s Black Veil
11. Herman Melville
①Moby Dick
12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the fireside poet; love of nature, love for the past)
①A Psalm of Life
②The Slave’s Dream
③My Lost Youth宝石矿物
④The Song of Hiawatha
13. Walt Whitman
①Leaves of Grass(first genuine epic poem)
②Song of Mylf
③I Sit and Look Out
④ Beat！Beat！Drums！
14. Emily Dickinson (the theme of her poetry concern religion, life, death, marriage, immorality, nature etc.)
①I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
②I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
③A Bird Came Down the Walk
④I Died for Beauty ___but Was Scarce
⑤I Hear a Fly Buzz ___When I Died
⑥Becau I Could not Stop for Death
Ⅱ. True or Fal choice. 20’
Ⅲ. Choo the best answer 10’
Ⅳ. Appreciation 30’
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
tilly怎么读Symbolism：
The Scarlet Letter, A symbol of shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity to Hester. The letter’s meaning shifts as time pass. Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulteress, the “A” eventually comes to stand for “Able.”
The Meteor , to Dimmesdale, the meteor implies that he should wear a mark of shame just as Hester does. The meteor is interpreted differently by the rest of the community, which thinks that it stands for “Angel” and marks Governor Winthrop’s entry into heaven
The Robush, Next to the Prison Door .The narrator choos to begin his story with the image of the robush beside the prison door. The robush symbolizes the ability of nature to endure and outlast man’s activities.
Pearl is a sort of living version of her mother’s scarlet letter. She is the physical conquence of xual sin and the indicator of a transgression (evildoing). Upward American spirit
Character analysis:
Hester: disloyalty, betrayal, deception, xual desire, adultery. Face, correct, redeem, purify. Prai, content, conformability.
Dimmesdale: adultery, cowardice, hypocrisy, dishonesty, lfishness, too coward to confess, tortured by his conscience. Sympathetic, disfavor his hesitation, indecisiveness and cowardice.
Chillingworth: revenge. Tortured by the desire of revenge, twisted and reduced to nothing. disgusted, think he committed greater crime.
Puritanism in The Scarlet Letter
宠物狐
Puritan background: tting, events, characters, thoughts, behaviors.
Puritan doctrines: original sin, total depravity, predestination, limited atonement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1.Nature
The declaration of Transcendentalism乾隆母亲
Analysis of “Nature”
A long essay which has eight parts: the opening, commodity, beauty, language, discipline, Idealism, spirit and prospects. Our lection is taken from the opening. Taken as a whole, “Nature” express Emerson’s philosophy in a more systematic fashion than any other work of his.
Meanings of nature
I Beauty
Nature is beautiful. : the complete, mysterious, uful and moral beauty of nature. First, nature’s beauty lies in its completeness. Second, nature’s beauty lies in its mystery. cannot be manipulated. Only when he holds a sincere respect for nature, can man feel the mysterious beauty of nature. Third, nature’s beauty lies in its ufulness. Nature provides man without any benefit
