Transcendentalism 超验主义
Transcendentalism was a broad, philosophical movement in New England during the Romantic era (peaking between 1835 and 1845). It stresd the role of divinity in nature and the individual’s intuition, and exalted feeling over reason. The pha of New England Transcendentalism is the summit of American Romanticism. The Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the oversoul, as the most important thing in the univer, stresd the importance of the individual and offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God.
⑵American Romanticism 美国浪漫主义
(1) American Romanticism is one of the most important periods in the history of American literature. (2) It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. (3) Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, it is also called “the American Renaissance”.(4) It was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. For romantics, the feelings, intuitions and emotions we
re more important than reason and common n. They emphasized individualism, placing the individual against the group. They affirmed the inner life of the lf, and cherished strong interest in the past, the wild, the remote, the mysterious and the strange. They stresd the element “Americanness” in their works.(5) American romanticists includes such literary figures as Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and some others.
⑶Imagism 意象派
Imagism came into being in Britain and U. S. around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the n of fragmentation and dislocation. The imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express the momentary impressions is through the u of one dominant image. Imagism as a movement flourished only briefly, but it had considerable influence on the development of form and subject matter in modern poetry. Poets like T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams,
Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings, recognizing strengths in imagist philosophies, made poems of the imagist type.
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Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles :
1. Direct treatment of subject matter;
2. Economy of expression
3. as regards rhythm, to compo in the quence of the musical phra, not in the quence of metronome
Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is a well-known imagist poem.
Lost Generation 迷茫的一代
orphan是什么意思The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who ud it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel. Variously, the term is ud for the period from the end of World War I to the
beginning of the Great Depression, though in the United States it is ud for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War I, alternatively known as the World War I generation. In Britain the term was originally ud for tho who died in the war
Writers of the first post war era lf-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation”, disillusioned by the war, and devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. Hemingway was regarded as the spokesman for the Lost Generation.
⑸Free Ver 自由体诗，如惠特曼的 草叶集
Free ver is an open form of poetry. It does not u consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phras and us commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Much pattern and discipline is to be found in free ver: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free ver its beauty.
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(诗人 诗名 主题 韵式 象征意义；Poem analysis in the terms of title of the poem, poet’s name, word, phra explanationvsb, theme, beneath是什么意思metrical, rhyme scheme )
1、The Road Not Taken
Poet: Robert Frost (1874-1963) ;Four times winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
born in San Francisco. Entered Dartmouth College after graduating from high school, dissatisfied with college life and withdrew, entered Harvard University in 1897 after marrying Elinor White; left Harvard two years after and moved to a farm near Derry , New Hampshire, given to him by his grandfather
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* Poem Type:
i knew you were trouble mv lyrical poem
* Rhyme Scheme:
Iambic tetrameter;
4 5-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme “abaab”.
* Literary Devices:
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Metaphor
Personification
2圣经在线阅读有声朗读、In a station of the Metro(Imagism)
Poet: Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
Poe; Translator ;Editor; Polemicist 辩论家;Essayist
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Life and Career:
Pound was often called “the poet’s poet” becau his profound influence on 20th century writing in English.
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人流中这几张脸魔幻般浮现；
雨湿蒙蒙花瓣偎在乌黑树干。
In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of the faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Question:
How is the central image in the poem “In a Station of the Metro” related to the subject the poet intends to prent?
Who compod this poem? What kind of form is adopted in this ver?
