Robert Burns 英国文学史及选读课件.ppt

My hearts in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My hearts in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My hearts in the Highlands, wherever I go. 我的心在高原----（苏格兰）罗伯特.彭斯 我的心在高原，身在异乡： 我的心在高原，追赶着鹿群， 追赶着野鹿，跟踪着小鹿， 我的心在高原，无论去向何方！ 再会吧，高原！再会吧，北方！ 你是品德的国家，壮士的故乡！ 无论我在哪流浪，何处彷徨，高原的群山我永不相忘！ 再会吧，白雪皑皑的高峰！ 再会吧，绿色的山谷同河滩！ 再会吧，高耸的大树，无尽的林涛！ 再会吧，汹涌的激流，雷鸣的浪潮！ 我的心在高原，身在异乡： 我的心在高原，追赶着鹿群， 追赶着野鹿，跟踪着小鹿， 我的心在高原，无论去向何方！ Robert Burns (1759-1796) Life of the poet Classification of Burns’ poems Scottish Ballads Patriotic poems Lyrics of love and friendship Selected Readings A Red, Red Rose My Heart’s in the Highlands Auld Lang Syne Burns(彭斯） Scotland‘s favorite son, the Ploughman Poet, was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. Son of a Scottish peasant, Burns shared during his early years the hard-working and poor life of his class. His father arranged with other farmers to have his children taught by a well-educated young man. He received a formal education in English, learning by heart English poetry and learning to write an elegant English prose. At the age of fifteen, he fell in love and shortly thereafter he wrote his first poem. As a young man, Burns pursued both love and poetry with uncommon zeal. In 1785, he fathered the first of his fourteen children. In 1786 he published a book of his poems: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. This collection was an immediate success and Burns was celebrated throughout England and Scotland as a great peasant-poet. His increasingly radical political views influenced many of the phenomenal number of poems, songs and letters he continued to pen, including such famous works as For a that and a that. Burns spent the final twelve years of his life editing and imitating traditional folk songs . He traveled around Scotland picking up local traditions and local work songs. Many songs he never claimed as his own but presented