作品分析题（18分）
1. Faulkner’s A Ro for Emily
This story happens after the American Civil War, in Jefferson Town. It’s a story about an eccentric spinster named Emily Grierson who marriage is totally manipulated by her father. Two years after her father’s death, poor Emily is acquainted with a northerner called Homer Barron, a day laborer and she falls in love with him. However, their relation is short-lived as Homer becomes tired of her and intends to get rid of her. In order to keep Homer at hand, Emily kills him with arnic and “obtain” him, thus, she sleeps with his corp for decades. This is the truth that villagers find after her death. 苏州高博培训From my own perspective, this masterpiece reflects the decline of the southern society and reveals the conflicts between the two different value systems and two societies after the American Civil War. Then, I will explain my opinions from the following two aspects: character, symbol .
Emily is an embodiment of the south, the old and tradition. At the very beginning of this story, the writer recounts the decoration of her hou which is still 1870s style, isn’t change
any more. Besides, she is also obstinate. When the new government compel the taxes on her，she refus to pay the tax and even ridiculously mentions a colonel who has been dead almost ten years. Another example is that she prevents people from installing mail-box on the wall. She keeps the traditional views all the long，but resists to change anything. However, poor Emily is a determined woman. Regardless of people’s criticism, she insists on marrying a northerner who social position is apparently lower than her. It is known that in that period of time, hierarchy is prevailing and deep-rooted through out the society. It particularly has a profound influence on marriage. When someone choos a partner, he or she must consider the social position of the other party to the marriage. However, Emily choos to disobey the convention and challenges tradition. Given this situation, her failure is quite expectable. Hinclude是什么意思owever, she cannot get rid of the shackles of the Southern conventions. After all, she captures her lover in her own way and the love is treated with honor.
Her father, the old Grierson, is also an incarnation of the South, patriarchy and tradition. He was very fastidious about her daughter’s marriage and drove away every man who ca
ught the fancy of her. “When she got to thirty and was still single”. Obviously, both her body and mind are enslaved by her father’s traditional concept. Therefore, she feels relead when her father is dead, and there is no “trace of grief on her face”.
In this novel, Emily symbolizes the South, old and 百度快译tradition, the Yankee reprents the North, new and modern. Both young guys might be interested in each other when they first meet. B12英语怎么读ut they posss altogether different values or concept of lives. 认字的方法有哪些S新greo they inevitably parated before long. The conflict between the two partners symbolizes the conflict between the South and the North. And the absurd murder aggravates the contradictions.
The “R江苏英语高考o”, that is never mentioned in this novel, is always interpreted conventionally as a symbol of love. It might be ud as the love Emily gets from her lover. But in my opinion the ro mainly reprents decay and death. At the time the villagers went to her room and found the valance curtains of faded ro color and the ro-shaded lights in the room. Actually, the author plays a trick on Miss Emily. In fact, she doesn实现英文’t really get any lo
ve from any man whether it is from her lover or her father. Emily could have a favorable marriage but for her father’s interference. She could have got her derved love from Homer. But on account of her obstinacy and pride, she receives tiredness and indifference, instead of affection---ro, from him. Thus, as an outsider, the author or the villagers, they give a ro as a tribute to Emily. Besides, the ro also stands for the author’s and villagers’ pity, sympathy and lament for Emily, who mind is imprisoned in the past and fails to adapt to the change. What’s more, the author, “William Faulkner objectifies his complicated and emotional involvement in the South and in the people who grow up and live there ever since”.
2. Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 黄色的树林里分出两条路
And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足
And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立
And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 直到它消失在丛林深处
Then took the other, as just as fair, 但我却选择了另外一条路
And having perhaps the better claim, 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂
Becau it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人，更美丽
担心的意思
Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这条小路上 英孚少儿英语好不好
Had worn them really about the same, 很少留下旅人的足迹
And both that morning equally lay 那天清晨落叶满地
In leaves no step had trodden black. 两条路都未经脚印污染
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵，留下一条路等改日再见
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头
