英美文学重点解析.ppt

The Road Not Taken Frosts most famous poem. The famous last words of the poem: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost(1874-1963) Theme The journey of life The different decisions Making decisions and the natural desire to want to know what will happen as a result of the decisions we ultimately make Encourage readers to overcome that fear Symbolism Divergent paths: difficult choices Grassy and wanted wear: a desire for individuality and adventure and a revolt against 厌恶the more conventional, much-traveled road I doubted if I should ever come back: our most important decisions in life are irreversible不可逆的 Modernist poetry Different from traditional poetry in several ways: Use simplified language and often abandons traditional rhyme and meter. The modernist poets moved away from using images of nature, They viewed the world with a more pessimistic lens. The modernists often left their poems vague模糊的 and open to interpretation by the reader. Frost simplified language not always optimistic stuck to using traditional meter and rhyme. used mostly natural images in his poems Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Serene Interpretation: To soothe平静his mind and contemplate沉思nature. A sense of adventure and attraction to danger Experience new things and places Dark Interpretation Exhaustion with life and a longing for death The isolated spot, and the cold, frozen lake dont sound like a very inviting place to stop and commune with ones own thoughts Winter ?in literature is typically associated with?death?and?darkness; animals hibernate冬眠, plants die, and it will be a long time before the earth wakes up again III. Frost’s View and Theme His poetry concerns New England’s nature. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, so his concern with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties. His poetry often probes mysterious of darkness and irratio