华盛顿·欧文名篇佳作 《破碎的心》.doc

华盛顿·欧文名篇佳作 《破碎的心》 欧文是散文大师，是美国文学的奠基之一。他的文学才能集中体现在《见闻札记》一书中，这是一部真实与虚构并存，在高超的技巧、丰富的想像力来反映新旧世界的作品。在此书中，作者撷取自己在美国及旅欧时所闻所见的种种逸事，以小说家的手法，哲学家的冷静思辨，将之一一述来。作者以漫画手沟勾勒人物，懒散的瑞普、富于浪漫情的鬼新郎和利欲熏心的乡村教师克兰，都已成为世界文学宝库的经典形象。作者以旅欧生涯的所见所闻，通过高超的艺术技巧，把浪漫主义奇想和日常生活场景的真实描写、幽默和抒情结合在一起。书中不少篇章富有传奇色彩，情真意切，动人心魄，给人启迪。欧文的语言十分典雅细腻，每篇文章开头之前多引一小诗，暗示作者要表达的主题。文中大量应用比喻和排比等修辞手法，令全书文采飞扬。 The Broken Heart 《破碎的心》 I never heard Of any true affection, but t was nipt With care, that, like the caterpillar, eats The leaves of the springs sweetest book, the rose. MIDDLETON. IT is a common practice with those who have outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or have been brought up in the gay heartlessness of dissipated life, to laugh at all love stories, and to treat the tales of romantic passion as mere fictions of novelists and poets. My observations on human nature have induced me to think otherwise. They have convinced me that, however the surface of the character may be chilled and frozen by the cares of the world, or cultivated into mere smiles by the arts of society, still there are dormant fires lurking in the depths of the coldest bosom, which, when once enkindled, become impetuous, and are sometimes desolating in their effects. Indeed, I am a true believer in the blind deity, and go to the full extent of his doctrines. Shall I confess it?--I believe in broken hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed love! I do not, however, consider it a malady often fatal to my own sex; but I firmly believe that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave. Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for fame, for fortune for space in the worlds thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a womans whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire