美国文学概况及作品选读复习宝典.docVIP

Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as “The Wild Honey Suckle” and “The Indian Burying Ground”. Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. In Washington Irving’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. “To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant’s best-known poem, consists of four stanzas in iambic tetrameter abab. The title means “view of death”. Edgar Allan Poe is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance. In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one day a week and rest six, and the rest of the time could be devoted to thought. Hawthorne’s stories touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse. Henry James is famous for his international theme of the tradition less American confronting the complexity of European life. Jack London believed in the inevitable triumph of the strongest individuals. Terms Transcendentalism 2. Naturalism 3. The Lost Generation 5. Modernism 6. Romanticism 7. Puritanism Identify the fragments. 2. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. (1) Who is the writer of these verses? (2) What is the title of this poem? (3) Give a brief comment on this poems. Answer: (1) Philip Freneau (2) The Wild Honeysuckle (3) Here Freneau offers a version of an abundant America