William12 Blake.doc

William Blake (1757—1827) A Pre-Romanticist or forerunner of the romantic poetry of the 19th century. Representatives Blake began writing poetry at the age of 12. Songs of Innocence 1789 《天真之歌》 Songs of Experience 1794 《经验之歌》 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790 《天堂与地狱的婚姻》 Songs of Innocence A lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. The Lamb Songs of Experience Paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression 压抑 with a melancholy tone. “The Lamb” Little Lamb, Ill tell thee, Little Lamb, Ill tell thee, He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb. He is meek 温顺的 , he is mild; He became a little child. I a child, thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb, God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee! What does the lamb stand for? 小羔羊我要告诉你， 小羔羊我要告诉你； 他的名字跟你的一样， 他也称他自己是羔羊； 他又温顺又和蔼， 他变成了一个小小孩， 我是个小孩, 你是羔羊 咱俩的名字跟他一样。 小羔羊上帝保佑你。 小羔羊上帝保佑你。 Summary The poem begins with the question, “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its “clothing” of wool, its “tender voice.” In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who “calls himself a Lamb,” one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child bestowing a blessing on the lamb. Form “The Lamb” has two stanzas 节 , each containing five rhymed couplets 5个押韵的对句 . Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain 叠句 , and helps to give the poem its song-like quality. “The Tyger” Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ?[?simitri] 匀称 老虎！老虎！黑夜的森林中 燃烧着的煌煌的火光， 是怎样的神手或天眼 造出了你这样的威武堂堂？