TheRaven乌鸦探究.pptVIP

The Raven by Alan Poe Table of Contents 1. Brief introduction of Poe 2. The beauty of death in the poem 3.The rhythm of the poem 4. The main images in the poem 5. The translated versions 1. Poe An American poet Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, short-story writer Considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre Ever experienced leaving of parents in childhood, wife in the middle age, soul mate in the old age. Alcohol all his life and died in the street 2. The beauty in the poem Main points An elegy A lamentation over the death of a beautiful woman by a man with a mysterious raven 108 lines, readable at one sitting “Death is the best theme of poetry , especially the beautiful creatures’, and without doubt the most poetic ” ----------Alan Poe In The Raven, when the man asked whether he could meet his lost beloved in the heaven, the raven repeated the same word ‘nevermore’, even the raven’s name is Nevermore. Everything is severe except the “tapping” and “swipper”. 3. The rhythm 18 six-line stanzas, the first five lines being trochaic octameter (八音步扬抑格), and the sixth line a trochaic tetrameter (四音步扬抑格). The rhythm scheme is abcbbb e.g. ?Once u pon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,  In every stanza, the ‘B’ lines rhyme with the word ‘nevermore’ and are catalectic(音部不完全的), placing extra emphasis on the final syllable. The poem also makes heavy use of alliteration(“ Doubting, dreaming dreams…”). 4. The main images in the poem The raven symbol of death and bad luck The black expressing the man’s upset and gloomy feeling The “nevermore” repetition of it deepens the pain of the man 5. The translated versions 《乌鸦》??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。”  哦，我清楚地记得那是在风凄雨冷的十二月， 每一团奄奄一息的余烬都形成阴影伏在地板。 我当时真盼望翌日——因为我已经枉费心机 想用书来消除伤悲，消除因失去丽诺尔的伤感， 因那位被天使叫作丽诺尔的少女，她美丽娇艳，