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野金银花 1 The poem was written in regular 6-line tetrameter stanzas, rhyming: ababcc .The structure of the poem is regular ,so it has the neoclassic quality of proportion and balance. In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.1.He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature.It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature, "the wild honey suckle"is Philip Freneau's most widely read natureal lyric with the theme of transience.2.The poem express the poet's view about the writing material of American writors.In the author's opinion, the origin land in America was fiiled with beauty and myth,which could compete with the rilics of Europ.It revealed on the basis of American beauty, the American writor can produce good works. .2. Stanza1:the poem treats the advantages as well as the disadvantages of the flower’s modest retirement-it is designed with beauty and well protected in solitude; whereas its beauty might be admired by few. Stanza2: it suggests that the honey suckle bears a special relationship with nature which has advised it to keep away from the “vulgar eye”; nature has designed it in white—a color of simplicity and purity,and , it has sent the soft waters flowing g ntly by. However , in spite of all the nature’ skindness, the flower cannot escape its doom. The best time of its life is fading, for death is waiting. 第二题；乌鸦 After he sees the bird, its response—or its imagined one一“nevermore” –keeps breaking upon the young man’s psychic wound ruthlessly and ceaselessly as do the waves on the sea shore until his depression reaches its breaking point: And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’ er him streaming throve his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out chat shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-never