广外英语文学欣赏U1概要1.pptVIP

Unit one Identity Outline I’m Nobody! Who are you? (by Emily Dickinson) Theme for English B (by Langston Hughes) Literary Focus Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin(高更）. 1897. Emily Dickinson (1830 -1886) a recluse in Amherst “美国隐士女诗人” she was delighted in solitude.(孤独是迷人的．） Nature is the permanent motif for her poems. one of the most innovative poets of 19th-century American literature (frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes, broken metre, unconventional metaphors ) I’m Nobody! Who are you? I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody —Too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! They’d banish us (advertise) — you know! How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one’s name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog! 我是无名人物！你是谁？ 你也是无名人物？ 那么我们俩就是一双！－－但别声张！ 你知道吗，他们容不下我们俩！ 做个名人多么无聊！ 像只招摇的青蛙－－ 向着仰慕它的池沼－－ 在漫长的六月里自吹自擂． 我是无名人物！你是谁？　　　　　　　　　迪金森 Questions 1. What does “I” refer to? 2. Who are the “pair of us” and “they”? 3. In what way is “somebody” comparable with “a frog”? 4. What does “the livelong June” refer to? 5.What does “an admiring bog” refer to? How to understand the word “admiring”? 6. What is like to be “somebody”? Do you want to be “nobody” or “somebody”? Explain. 7. What is the function of dashes? Terms in “Theme for English B” Harlem美国纽约市的黑人居住区 Bessie黑人女歌手;布鲁斯 Bop (bebop)博普爵士乐 Bach巴赫 Questions 1. Who does “I” refer to? 2. What is special of this speaker in his class? What does it imply? 3. Why to the speaker “ It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me”? 4. How do you understand the sentences “ So will my page be colored that I write?/ Being me it will not be white.”? 5. Why does the speaker say “You are white --/yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American.”? 6. What questions does the poet pose in the poem? I, ? I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And gro