英美诗歌选修13周（Longfellow Whitman）.pptVIP

Selected Reading of American Poetry Lecture 13 Romantic period Longfellow Whitman Romanticism Poetry Conservative poetry ： Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Born in a well-to-do family in Maine/ graduated from Bowdoin College/ spend 3 years in Europe studying culture and language of Italy, Spain and Germany/ become professor at Harvard/ translate The Divine Comedy by Dante Representative poems “Psalm of Life” 《生命礼赞》 “Hymn to the Night” 《夜之颂》 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” 《潮起又潮落》 Romanticism Poetry Context Analysis About Foot（音步） Meter (格律)Meter is a count of the stresses we feel in the poem’s rhythm. And the unit of poetic meter is the foot. One foot- monometer Two feet- dimeter Three feet- trimeter Four feet – tetrameter Five feet – pentameter Six feet – hexameter Sever feet- heptameter 常见的格律为： 抑扬格 iambic 扬抑格 trochaic 抑抑扬格 anapestic 扬扬抑格 dactylic Most of the poems are written in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格), for example: “sonnet 18” Romanticism Poetry Romanticism Poetry I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutters song, the ploughboys on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to her and to none else, The day what belongs to the dayat night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths