花龟怎么养“To a Waterfowl” is a poem by William Cullen Bryant that was first published in the North American Review in March 1818. English poet Matthew Arnold once acclaimed it as “the most perfect brief poem in the language.” In a winter day of 1815, Bryant, who was in a state of lf-doubt and despair, made a solitary walk from Cummington to Plainfield, Massachutts. At the clo of that day, the poet saw a waterfowl flying in the sky. The sight of the bird and its flight became a great revelation to him and wrote this poem in memory of this experience.
First Stanza – Where are you going?
In the first stanza, the speaker address the bird, asking him where he is going and why it is alone. Now let’s imagine if you are on a solitary walk in a winter day and you happen to notice a waterfowl flying alone “midst falling dew” at the end of the day. What kind of feeling you will have towards the waterfowl? Thus the author’ purpo to ari sympathy with the bird is accomplished. As a matter of fact, the speaker’s sympathy is not just with the waterfowl, but also with himlf since he is alone just like the bird. The winter day, the ttin
g sun, and the poet’s gloominess adds a strong ntimental tone to this poem. <天净沙·秋思 > 马致远
枯藤老树昏鸦。
小桥流水人家。
古道西风瘦马。
弥勒景点
夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。
Second Stanza – A hunter might try to shoot you
In the cond stanza, the poet’s emotion of sympathy for the waterfowl is further strengthened. The speaker notices that a hunter has his eye on the bird and tries to bring it down. However, the waterfowl flies away and avoid the fate of being killed. Here the reader can’t help asking a question, that is, what has guided the waterfowl to avoid such a tragic fate? The speaker explains the reason later. Such words as “darkly” and “the crimson sky” also make the ntimental tone stronger.
Third Stanza – Lake, river, or ocean?
In the third stanza, the speaker repeats his question in the first stanza. The speaker asks the fowl if he is flying to a lake, river, or ocean. This question is important for two reasons饯别: the bird is, after all, a “water” bird, and by making the question to move from smallest body of water to largest, the speaker is demonstrating that the bird is now taking on a metaphoric or symbolic significance, which will develop further as the speaker continues to think about the bird’s flight.
濡须口之战
Fourth Stanza – “There is a Power”重拾回忆
pdm文件In this stanza, the speaker shows us the reason why the waterfowl can avoid the fate of being killed by the hunter and why he is not lost. The reason is simply that this emingly lonely bird is not alone, it is being guided by an invisible Power that shows the bird the right path. Here the speaker extends the metaphor in the third stanza: the bird is not just aimlessly wandering, but is being infallibly guided by that Power.
Fifth Stanza – “All day thy wings have fann’d”
In this stanza, the author shows us that even under the guidance of the mysterious power, the waterfowl still has many difficulties to overcome during the flight: always wings fanning, far height, cold and thin atmosphere, and dark night. With the fifth stanza, we e that the speaker’s musing on the bird’s flight has once again turned metaphorical. We e that “day” is a metaphor for “life” or brightness and “night” is a metaphor for “death” or destruction. Although the waterfowl is tired, he will not stop “at the welcome land” under the duction of the “dark night” since it is against the guidance of the mysterious power. This once again explains the reason why it can avoid being killed by the hunter.
农的五笔怎么打Sixth Stanza –Obedience to the guidance of the Power pays
Under the guidance of the power, at last the bird is safe at his summer home. He screams among his fellows, and his nest is protected by the bent reeds. This stanza shows that it is infallible to follow the guidance of the Power.
Seventh Stanza – The waterfowl has taught the poet a lesson
While the poet is deep in thinking, suddenly, the bird has vanished from his sight. It has been “swallowed up” by “the abyss of heaven.” Although the bird has disappeared from his sight, the speaker will remember what the sight of the bird taught him, what the sight of the flight motivates him to understand about life, death, and the Power that guides them. Stanza 7 is a turning point in this poem, moving from the obrvation of the bird and the meditation about its flight to a statement of the meaning of this kind of experience.
Eighth Stanza – That Power will lead me also
The “lesson” of this experience touches the author’s heart very much. He gains an inner assurance that the Power, who guides the bird through the boundless and pathless sky, will guide him through his own path of life. We can e that the author parallels the flight of the bird to his own earthbound journey through life. From a bird and its flight to an ordinary person and his cour of life, this poem conveys that everything in nature is under the beneficence恩惠 and protection of the Power.
苹果瘦肉汤的做法
In this poem, Bryant prents the fowl in flight as being something supernatural. The bird emerges from the "heavens" almost like an angel and the speaker address it in an extremely respectful tone. Bryant, through his aesthetic prentation of the bird, then deepens his understanding of human experience.
