高级英语课件lecture five victorian__ poetry.pptVIP

Lecture Five The Victorian Age 1830-1901 Queen Victoria: 1837-1901 1830-1848 1849-1870 1871-1901 The Time of Troubles The Colonial Expansion The Achievement of fiction Dramatic Monologue Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher (closer),/ Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Dramatic Monologue Common elements: everyone agrees that a dramatic monologue a poem must have i. a speaker and an implied auditor ii. the auditor often perceives a gap between what speaker says and what that speaker actually reveals. iii. the reader adopts the POV of an auditor (or narratee, whether one is present or not in the poem) iv. the speaker uses a case-making, argumentative tone v. the auditor completes the dramatic scene from within, by means of inference and imagination Kipling If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies. Or being hated, don’t give way to hating. And yet don’t look too good, not talk too wise. If you can dream—and not make dreams you master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone. And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “HOLD ON!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common tou