2005年成人高考英语试题及答案1(高起点)27983.pptVIP

Life and career Born in an actor and actress’s family and his parents died when he was very young adopted by a Virginia rich businessman John Allan entered Virginia University at 17 and then entered West Point but not finished, where he began to write poetry, then tales editor of magazines such as The Southern Literary Messenger, Graham’s magazine, etc. At 27 he married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia who died very young in 1947, leaving him inconsolable. 2 years later Poe died mysteriously. Worked as editor and writer most of his life and he was always poor. Poe’s reputation Emerson called him the “jingle man” Twain declared he would only read Poe on salary Henry James’ ruthless statement—any admiration of Poe’s work was “the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of development” James Russell Lowell: Poe was 3/5 genius and 2/5 sheer fudge Whitman admitted Poe’s genius, his verses “belong among the electric lights of imaginative literature, brilliant and dazzling but with no heat, far too much rhyme to be pleasant for him to read.” T S Eliot proclaimed him as a critic of the 1st rank, but charged him with “slipshod writing.” Gothic The term gothic has also been extended to denote a type of fiction that A,develops an atmosphere of gloom or terror B. represents events which are mysterious, horrible, or extremely violent, and C. often deals with abnormal psychological states Elements of Gothic fiction 1. Setting in a castle. 2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. 3. An ancient prophecy 4. Omens, portents, visions. 5. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. 6. High, even overwrought emotion. 7. Women in distress. 8. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male. 9. The metonymy of gloom and horror. 10. The vocabulary of the gothic. significance The most misunderstood and controversial literary figure in the history of american literature, a poet of the first rank, a great writer of fiction and a critic of acumen and insight, with uniq