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Part III. The Literature of Romanticismbittersmile
Passage 4
Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,
地震中的父与子
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this, and nothing more. "
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each parate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
sailEagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had tried to borrow
From my books surcea of sorrow-sorrow for the lost.
1. Who is the writer of the lines?
2. What is the title of this poem from which the lection is lected?
3. Recognize the sound devices in the following lines. LI ________ L4 ________L7________ L10________
4. Describe the mood of this poem.
Answers:
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. The Raven
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3. LI—Alliteration, L4—Onomatopoeia, L7—Internal rhyme, L10—Assonance
4. A n of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem, the portrayal of a young man grieving for his lost Leno-re, his grief turned to madness under the steady one-word repetition of the talking bird.
Passage 5
Lo! in you brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I e thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
apart fromAre Holy-Land!
1. This is the last stanza of a poem To Helen. Who wrote this poem To Heleni
2. With whom is Helen associated in Line 4 of the prent stanza?
3. Who is Psyche?
Answers
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Psyche
3. Psyche is the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology.
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from tho heavenly worlds, will parate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual prence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prerve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night
come out the preachers of beauty, and light the univer with their admonishing smile.
Questions:
1. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essay?
2. Who is the author?
3. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?
4. Give a peculiar term to cover the author's belief.
Answers:
汤姆索亚历险记英文1. Nature
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Then, the men cannot believe and adore the God, cannot prerve there membrance o
f the city of God which had been shown.
4. Transcendentalism
Passage 7
Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I e all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Questions:
1. Which work is this lection taken from?
2. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in the words?
Answers:
1. Nature
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In this connection, Emerson' s emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one.
3. Now this is a moment of "conversion" when one feels completely merged with the outside world, when one has completely sunk into nature and become one with it, and when the soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omniscience of the Oversoul. In a word, the soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Oversoul. Emerson es spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.
I went to the woods becau I wished to live deliberately, to front only the esntial facts of life, and e if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and
suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave clo, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.
1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ .put club
2. The author of the work is____________ .
3. List by yourlf at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods.
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1. Walden
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2. Henry David Thoreau
3. Find the answer from the passage.
Passage 10
Tell me not, in mournful numbers. Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they em. Life is real-life is earnest—And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul.
1. Who is the writer of the lines?
2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the two stanzas are taken?
3. Summarize the poet’s advice on living.
Answers:
1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2012年6月英语六级听力2. A Psalm of Ufe
3. His optimism which has characterized much of his poetry, also endeared many critics to him. He emed to have pervered despite tragedy. In his poem, The Psalm of Life, he writes: Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. This is the cry of the heart, "rallying from depression" , ready to affirm life, to regroup from loss, to push on despite momentary defeat.
