My_Lost_Youth赏析.ppt

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, was an American poet and educator whose works include Paul Reveres Ride, The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante AlighierisThe Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets. He died in 1882. 朗费罗，H．w．(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow，1807-1882) 19世纪美国最伟大的浪漫主义诗人之一。1807年2月27日出生于缅因州波特兰城一个律师家庭。1822年进入博多因学院，与霍桑是同班同学。毕业后去过法国、西班牙、意大利和德国等地，研究这些国家的语言和文学。1836年开始在哈佛大学讲授语言,文学长达十八年，致力于介绍欧洲文化和浪漫主义作家的作品，成为新英格兰 文化中心剑桥文学界和社交界的重要人物。 comments influnces Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. Major Works 《人生礼赞》A Psalm of Life, 1839 《箭和歌》the arrow and the song 《金色夕阳》The golden sunset 《夜吟》（Voices of the Night） 《海华沙之歌》The Song of Hiawatha 《伊凡杰兰》Evangline 《迈尔斯-斯坦迪希求婚记》The courtship of Miles Standish 《海外朝圣记》（Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea） 《卡文那》（Kavanagh） 《凯纳梅兹及其他（Kéramos and Other Poems）》 《天涯海角（Ultima Thule）》 《在港湾里（In the Harbor）》 《我逝去的青春》my lost youth A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins his poem A Psalm of Life with the same exuberance and enthusiasm that continues through most of the poem. He begs in the first stanza to be told not in mournful numbers about life. He states here that life doesnt abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the body dies. The second stanza continues with the same belief in afterlife that is present in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he writes, And the