Lesson 6 Gray Blake.pptVIP

I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ning church appals, And the hapless soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down palace walls. But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear, And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. Lesson SixPoems Appreciation Thomas Gray (1716-1771) 感伤主义诗歌代表 墓园派诗人 早期浪漫主义诗人 学识渊博 多才多艺 Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 从新古典主义向浪漫主义的过渡 32 stanzas four lines in each stanza iambic pentameter 五步抑扬格 abab The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. curfew: 宵禁的钟声 toll: 钟鸣 knell: 丧钟 lowing: 牛鸣 herd: 牧群，牛群 lea: 草地 plowman: 农夫 plod: 沉重缓慢地走 weary: 疲惫的 ? The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. ? 晚钟响起来一阵阵给白昼报丧， 牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落， 耕地人累了，回家的脚步踉跄， 把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. glimmering: 隐约可见的 a solemn stillness holds all the air Save: except beetle: 甲壳虫 wheel: 盘旋飞行 droning flight: 飞翔时发出嗡嗡的声音 drowsy: 昏昏欲睡的 tinklings: 羊颈上的铃声 lull: 使平静 folds: 羊圈 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. 苍茫的景色逐渐从眼前消退， 一片肃穆的寂静笼罩着尘寰， 只听见嗡嗡的甲虫转圈纷飞， 昏沉的铃声催眠着远处的羊栏。 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r The moping owl does t