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Assignments for the History of American Literature February, 2011 Assignment 1 Read excerpts from The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin and write down your responses to what you have read; why are the writings of Benjamin Franklin always anthologized in American literature books? Do you like the poems of Philip Freneau? Why? Choose a poem of Freneau and write your responses to it. Read “Rip Van Winkle”, or “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” or other pieces from his Sketch Book of Washington Irving and write your responses to it; why does the Romantic literature in America starts from Washington Irving? Choose one among the three topics and complete your assignment and hand in your assignment on Wednesday, Week 4 野生的金银花 ? 美好的花呀，你长得这么秀丽， 却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地方， 甜美的花儿开了却没人亲昵， 招展的小小枝梢也没有人观赏； ? 没游来荡去的脚把你踩碎， ? 没东攀西摘的手来催你落泪。 ? 大自然把你打扮得一身洁白， 她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的目光； 她布置下树荫把你护卫起来， 又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁； ? 你的夏天就这样静静地消逝， ??这时候你日渐萎蔫终将安息。 ? 那些难免消逝的美使我销魂， 想起你未来的结局我就心疼； 别的那些花儿也不比你幸运—— 虽开放在伊甸园中业已凋零； ? 无情的寒霜再加秋风的威力， ? 会叫这花朵消失的一无踪迹。 ? 朝阳和晚霞当初曾把你养育， 让你这小小的生命来到世上； 要来若乌有，就没有什么可失去， 因为你的死让你同先前一样； ? 这来去之间不过是一个钟点—— ? 这就是脆弱的花享有的天年。 ? In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.1.He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature.It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature, the wild honey suckleis Philip Freneaus most widely read natureal lyric with the theme of transience.2.The poem express the poets view about the writing material of American writors.In the authors opinion, the origin land in America was fiiled with beauty and myth,which could compete with the rilics of Europ.It revealed on the basis of American beauty, the American writor can produce good works. The central image is a nativewild flower,which makes a drastic difference from elite flower images typical of tradition english poems. The poem showed strong feelings for the natural beauty,which was the characteristic of romantic poets. The poem was written in regular 6-line tetrameter stan