英国文学Chapter1 Old and Medieval English Literature.ppt

Chapter1 Old and Medieval English Literature The Outline (大纲要求的重点作家) Geoffrey Chaucer :The Canterbury Tales William Shakespeare John Milton: Paradise lost; on his blindness Lake poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey Jonathan Swift: Battle of the Books, Gulliver‘s Travels George Gordon Byron Charles Dickens：David Copperfield ；Oliver Twist Robert Browning: My Last Duchess James Joyce: Ulysses D.H. Lawrence : The White Peacock ; Sons and Lovers T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 请识记以上作家的重要作品,不仅限于上面的例子。 British Literature: An Introduction Basic Terms Poetry and Prose Rhyme and Rhythm Examples of Rhythm Metrical Pattern: 1. iambic pentameter √ ﹨ √﹨ √ ﹨ √﹨ √﹨ That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold 2. trochaic tetrameter \ √ \ √ \ √ \ √ Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers 3.anapestic trimeter √ √ \ √√ \ √ √ \ And the sound | of a voice | that is still 4.dactylic hexameter \ √ √ \ √ √ \ √ √ \ √ √ \ √ √ \ √ This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks Examples of Rhyme When I consider how my light is spent A Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, B And that one talent which is death to hide B Lodgd with me useless, though my soul more bent A To serve therewith my Maker, and present A My true account, lest he returning chide, B Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?“ B I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent A That murmur, soon replies: God doth not need C Either mans work or his own gifts: who best D Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state E Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed C And post oer land and ocean without rest: