[文学]Week1-Tennyson.pptVIP

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) English Literature Life 4 years schooling education at home (father: a learned clergyman) Trinity College, Cambridge (“the Apostles”), without a degree Poet Laureate in 1850 (“The Princess” and In Memoriam)– an elegy on the death of Hallam Masterpiece: Idylls of the King (1842-1885) The Eagle Break, Break, Break Go Go The princess: a quotation Myriads of riverlets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. /m/ : dove and bee Rhythm: flow (zigzag and swift) Artistic features 1st to express the awareness of the vast extent of geological time that has haunted human consciousness since Victorian scientists exposed the history of the earth’s crust. Visual picture + musical expressions Moralist; attacking money-worship; poetry as the description of a beautiful and antique world: his past, his country’s past and mankind’s past are the theme of his poetry. Poet of nature; Homework 熟读Tennyson的两首名诗The Eagle 和Break, Break, Break，下次课小测试熟悉程度。 预习Robert Browning 的MY LAST DUCHESS The Eagle He clasps/ the crag/ with crook/ed hands;Close to/ the sun/ in lone/ly lands,Ringd with/ the a/zure world/, he stands. The wrinkl/ed sea/ beneath/ him crawls;He wa/tches from/ his moun/tain walls,And like/ a thun/derbolt/ he falls. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls. Q 1 Q 2 Q 3 Q 4 Q 5 Trans Q 6 Q 7 Q 8 Trans Conclusion: The Eagle Iambic tetrameter Harmony, a whole Image of the eagle A man at the peak of his life, clinging on desperately Image of the mountain The universe, a man is small to universe Loneliness of the eagle A man must enter and leave the world alone. Break, Break, Break Break, Break, Break In October 1828, Hallam went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met Tennyson. Both joined a group kno