文学9-Byron, Shelley, Keats.pptVIP

An Introduction to Late Romanticists: Byron, Shelley and Keats Teaching focus: Byron’s life and his masterpiece Don Juan ; Byronic hero. The main idea of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind . Keats’ aesthetics in “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” . Group work George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Life and Works: p.22 He was born in a noble family notorious for their passionate temper and thriftlessness. He has a club-foot and became extremely sensitive about his lameness. Eventually he got a corrective boot. Byrons influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. Major works: Hours of Idleness： 《闲散的时刻》 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:《恰尔德 .哈罗德游记》 Don Juan : 《唐璜》 About Don Juan: The plot of the long satiric poem: p.34 /pages/otherbooks/lb_donjuan.html OVERVIEW: Byron began the poem in 1818 in Italy during a period of wild self-indulgence and profligacy(放荡). This long satiric poem is a loose narrative held together by the hero, Don Juan, and the narrator, Byron himself, who maintains a mocking, ironic relationship with the story. Like many satires, it was criticized by some as being immoral.  THE DON JUAN CHARACTER: Certain incidents and characters are drawn from Byrons life. The Don Juan character represents a merely physical desire divorced from any spiritual or even humane feelings. 传说中过着浪荡生活的西班牙贵族; 风流浪荡子; 游手好闲者 Byronic hero: Adventurous, ambitious, proud, mysterious, passionate, from a noble family, always a rebel. 拜伦式英雄：崇尚自由，疾恶如仇，傲视万物，有极强的个人荣誉感。 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) : p.42 A revolutionary who wanted to change the world through his poetry. He was expelled from Oxford for advocating atheism. Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. Ode to the West Wind : p.46 The poet describes viv