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2.1 Benjamin Franklin
2.2 Autobiography
Four parts:
1757:family heritage, own life experience
1784:War of Independence; relationship with his son;
efforts to learn virtue by a chart system
1788: life in Philadelphia
1790: down to his retirement
What its about?
--a poor boy’s rise to wealth and fame;
--the fulfillment of the American Dream;
Detailed Learning
The first part in Part One:
--The reasons why “I” write this story;
-- Thanking God
The latter part in Part Two:
-- the 13 virtues;
-- Scheme of a day;
-- exampls of how to form/keep good habits and how
to avoid the bad ones.
The value of it ?
Its achievement lies more in its representative value as an image of the rising America than in its accurate portrayal of his whole life.
A book on the self-improvement. Using his life story as a shining example, he demonstrated all the major priciples of the enlightenment in America. Franklin embodied the transition from Puritan piety, idealism and provicialism to the more secular, utilitarian, and cosmopolitan values of the American enlightenment.
Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
His innovations in technique:
a. parallelism(平行结构)
b. phonetic recurrence
c. free verse, no traditional iambic pentameter 诗行长短不一， 不押韵，不以传统格律为顿挫单位，而是以短句、短语为顿挫单位。
1855 (1st edition)Leaves of Grass (Characteristics ? Acceptance ? Editions ?) Deathbed Edition ,400 poems
A catalog of American and European thought (?)
Features of Whitman’s poems
1. Sprawling lines are extremely long
2. The line link is visual.Enough openness and expansiveness 3. Evolope structure.
4 Catalogue technique 5 The poems move in terms of thougt.
6. Oratory 7. Influence of opera.
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Mille
Tragedy and the Common Man
Winner of many literary and dramatic award,
Miller is an important force in American drama.
His major characters are ordinary and suffering
individuals seemingly trap
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