Ode to a Nightingale详细赏析.ppt

Stanza III Fade far away, dissolve21, and quite forget What thou amongst the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan22; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs. Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin23,and dies; Where nut to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed24 despairs; Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous25 eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow26. 21、disappear 22、moan due to pain 23、skinny as a ghost 24、not lively,dull eyes 25、 radiant 26、hyperbole: them refers to “her lustrous eyes”, the new love cannot be forever. The poet uses the word “fade” in the last line of stanza II and in the first line of this stanza to tie the stanzas together and to move easily into his next thought. His awareness of the real world pulls him back from the imagined world of drink-joy. Stanza IV Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted27 by Bacchus28 and his pards29, But on the viewless30 wings of Poesy31, Though the dull brain perplexes32 and retards. Already with thee! tender33 is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays34; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous35 glooms and winding mossy ways. 27, state carriage 28, the Greek god of wine 29, middle English for leopards,refers to the leopard cat that drags the wine god. 30, not perceivable, the soar of poetry is beyond common people 31, poetic fancy 32, to confuse 33, showing affection and love 34, fairies 35, health and vigor The poet suddenly cries out Away! away! for I will fly to thee. He turns to fantasy again; he rejects wine in line 2, and in line 3 he announces he is going to use the viewless wings of Poesy to join a fantasy bird. He contrasts this mode of experience (poetry) to the dull brain that perplexes and retards (line 4). In line 5, he succeeds or seems to succeed in joining the bird. The imagine