自我之歌.pptx.ppt

Influences the 20th century world literature: His works is part of western culture / many poets in France, Italy, England, and Latin America are in his debt. His poetry also influences modern American poets such as Pound, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg. * Important Features in Whitman’s Poems The first person narrator: “I” the subject in the poem, “you” the reader Invites us to participate in the process of sympathetic identification. Style: free verse A looser and open-ended syntactical structure The habit of using snapshots（快照） Use of conversational image Strong tendency to use oral English Vocabulary- powerful, colorful, rarely-used words of foreign origin, wrong words Sentences- different lengths, separate * works Leaves of Grass《草叶集》 Songs of Myself 《自我之歌》 O Captain!My Captain!《船长！我的船长！》 I hear America sining《我听见美洲在歌唱》 Beat! Beat! Drums！《敲吧 战鼓！》 * Leaves of Grass Whitman’s originality first in his use of the poetic form free verse (i.e. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme) The first version of his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, appeared in 1855. Emerson praised Whitman’s poetry as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet to contribute.” * Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman has devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, Leaves of Grass .The work has nine editions. In this giant work, openness, freedom, and individualism are all that concerned him. His purpose is to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. He wanted to behave as a supreme individualist. * Song of Myself Song of Myself was originally published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass in which it was the first of twelve poems. At the time this poem was untitled, in 1881 Whitman gave the poem its final name: Song of Myself. In Song of Myself, Whitman believed that two people could be “twain yet one”, thei