Life experience and work appreciation of Edgar Allan Poe.pptVIP

To Hellen Hellen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. ? On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. ? Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How, statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within my hand, Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are holy land! Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door?—????????????Only this, and nothing more.“ 从前一个阴郁的子夜，我独自沉思，慵懒疲竭， 面对许多古怪而离奇、并早已被人遗忘的书卷； 当我开始打盹，几乎入睡，突然传来一阵轻擂， 仿佛有人在轻轻叩击——轻轻叩击我房间的门环。 “有客来也”，我轻声嘟喃，“正在叩击我的门环， 惟此而已，别无他般。” Analysis The main theme of the poem is one of undying devotion.The narrator experiences a perverse conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember. He seems to get some pleasure from focusing on loss.The narrator assumes that the word Nevermore is the ravens only stock and store, and, yet, he continues to ask it questions, knowing what the answer will be. His questions, then, are purposely self-deprecating and further incite his feelings of loss Literary style Allan Poe,s most works fall into the category of Gothic. For comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity. His writing demonstrates stylistic brilliance in the form of varying vocabulary, remarkable repetition, and instrumental imagery. His fiction often included elements of popular pseudosciences (伪科学）such as phrenology （骨相学）and physiognomy（相面术）. * 行走在时光的边缘 ---爱伦坡的尺牍人生 美国文学第二小组倾情奉献 Life experience Main works Writing skills Virginia Eliza Clem