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bullets1.The characteristic features in romantic
period:①subjectivism主观主义: The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.强烈情感的自然流露
②spontaneity自然性: The role of instinct, intuition is stresd in this period.
getty③singularity奇特性: Poets in this period have a favor in describing unusual things
④worship of nature对自然的崇拜: a main feature in this period
⑤ simplicity质朴性: Common people gradually become the center of attention in this period.
⑥ melancholy feelings deeply entrenched in this period.愁思的情绪充斥着这个时期。
⑦poets show their favor to outpour their feelings through their lines. 作家较喜欢通过诗句抒发情感。
2.literary points in the lyrical ballads:
1.It mainly talked about Common people.
2. U vivid imagination
to constitute their poems.3.they respect Laws of humanity 4.
U Simple language 5. Focus on Morale principl e.
3. Lake poets and their works:①William wordsworth: Lyrical ballads, the solitary reaper ②Samuel Taylor Coleridge :lyrical ballads, kubla khan ③Robert southey: a vision of trail, the doctor.
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4. The common features of Victorian novels:
①the plot is unfolded against background which is broader than what it had been in previous novels.
②the cour-effect quence is much more striking than in previous novels.围绕主人公经历而形成的原因与其影响比以往小说更显精彩。
老友记mp3打包下载③most of the Victorian novels were first published in rial form.
up in the air④the Victorian novels were effected by the spirit of Puritanism of Victorian age.
phoenix cityafraid怎么读⑤the Victorian novels were characterized by their moral purpo.出于某种道德目的
5.The three Victorian poets and their works:
①Alfred Tennyson: break,break,break
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②Robert Browning: My last duchess
③Matthew Arnold: Dover beach.
They wrote highly lyrical poems as Romanists did and their works reflected the spiritual arch.对精神领域的探求。
6. The philosophy ideas of Thomas hardy:
英语名His philosophy was that everything in the univer is determined by the immanent will（内在意志）, which is prent in all parts of the univer and is impartially hostile towards human being s’ desire for joy and happiness.
哈代本身是个悲观主义者，随着他对社会认识日渐深入，他认为宇宙本身存在缺陷，并不存在一个全
能的神来安排人的命运，却有一个冥冥之中的无形的手在操纵着这一切，人性不能得以充分体现，则总是充斥着痛苦和悲伤。
7. The interpretation of alienation and loneliness: the two words reprent the basic themes of modernism. For modernist writers, they considered the modern world as a chaotic（混乱的）one and is incomprehensible. Though richer in material level, it is spiritually barren(精神贫瘠).Human beings are helpless before such world and no longer able to do things that their ancestors once did.
8. The characteristics of modernist writings:
①complexity and obscurity复杂性和模糊
性:Their works express the subjective world of individual writers, which time and space are mixed up.
②the u of symbols象征主义：Writers in this period usually u symbol to enhance the obscurity of their work.
③allusion典故引用：Allusion is an indirect reference to another work of literature, art, history and religion to express one’s specific feeling.
④irony反讽：Irony is an expression of one’s meaning by using words that mean the direct
opposite of what one really intends to convey. 利用正话反说的方式来表示辛讽。
9. The theatre of the absurd荒诞学派:
The theatre of absurd is a term applied to a group of dramatists who were active in the 50’s.
The name was probably coined by Marlin Esslin in his book The Theatre of Absurd, published in 1961.
cannonThe absurdity of human conditions（人类生存条件的荒诞性）is the main theme of the plays of the school of the theater of the absurd. In the plays the dramatists
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express that life has no pattern of meaning or ultimate significance and that no activity is more or less valuable than another.全方位的表达人世与世事的荒诞，人生毫无意义可言。
10. Angry Young Men:The "angry young men" were
a group of mostly working and middle class British
playwrights and novelists who became prominent
in the 1950s. The group's leading members
included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis .They
showed an equally uninhibited disdain（无法掌控的蔑视）for the dullness of the postwar welfare state, and their writings frequently expresd raw anger and frustration 。Their language is ordinary and sometimes
dirty. The ttings are mostly gloomy and the main characters in their works are mostly bitter defeated men.
