夜莺颂讲解.ppt

Outline The Poet The Poem ----Background ----Appreciation ----Theme The compliment of the Poem The poet The Poem--Background Written between 26 April and 18 May 1819 Based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to Fanny Keats on May Day Composed at the Hampstead house Keats shared with Brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum-tree in the garden Keats relied on both his own imagination and other literature as sources for his depiction of the nightingale. The Poem -- Appreciation 1 Stanza 1 begins suddenly marked by use of heavy sounding syllables ( line1) the feeling, either be poisoned or influenced by a drug the source of this feeling is a nightingales song The Poem -- Appreciation 2 Stanza 1 Note: hemlock(line2), a poisonous herb, not the North American evengreen tree Lethe-wards(line4), toward Lethe, the river in Hades whose waters cause forgetfulness The Poem -- Appreciation 3 Stanza 2 The song encourages the narrator to give up his own sense of self and embrace the feelings that are evoked by the nightingale. No longer a poison, the narrator wants to experience more of the feeling and escape from reality. The Poem -- Appreciation 4 stanza 2 note Flora(line13),Roman godness of flowers, or the flowers themselves Provencal song(line14),Provence, a part of south-east France, famous furing the Middle Ages for chivalry and poetry. provencal,native or inhabitant of provence. hippocrene(line16), (=the horse-fountain) the fountain of the muses,struck by the roof of the winged horsse Pegasus, out of Mount Helioon. observe that this spring ran with wine instead of water. The Poem -- Appreciation 5 stanza 3 the narattor thought that the nightingale was so free and happy that it cannot understand the human world, which is full of sadness and frustration, making people want to escape from it. The Poem -- Appreciation 6 stanza3 note line 26, keats s brother, tom wasted by tuberculosis,