文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌 Poetry in the English Renaissance.pptVIP

On His Blindness John Milton When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: God doth not need Neither man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.” Pay attention to the rhyme of the last six lines: cde, cde) This is a typical Italian sonnet. Please make a comment on its structure division and meaning expression. Though being an Italian form, the poem is used to express Milton’s religious attitude. To some extend, English poets have expanded the scope of theme, which is narrowly confined to love. Holy sonnet 10 By John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. Scorn not the sonnet William Wordsworth Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unloc