[经济学]英国文学选读考试复习要点.ppt

十四行诗 十八首 能不能让我来把你比拟做夏日？ 你可是更加温和，更加可爱： 狂风会吹落五月里开的好花儿， 夏季的生命又未免结束得太快： 有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热， 他那金彩的脸色也会被遮暗； 每一样美呀，总会离开美而凋落， 被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残； 但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯， 你永远不会失去你美的仪态； 死神夸不着你在他的影子里踯躅， 你将在不朽的诗中与时间同在； 只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见， 我这诗就活着，使你的生命绵延。 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 38 plays 154 sonnets and 2 long poems the success of his plays depend upon his penetrating exposition of human nature, his lively paintings of human life and his truthful reflections of human reality 【Representative works】 History : Henry IV (1-2) Comedy : 1.Mid-summer Night’s Dream2.The Merchant of Venice 3.Much Ado about Nothing 4.As You Like It 5.Twelfth Night Tragedy : Hamlet Othello King Lear MacBeth Famous Plays:Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra The Tempest Sonnet The sonnets comprise four stanzas of three quatrains and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Shakespeare also uses the iambic pentameter in most of his plays, where they are called blank verse, as they do not usually rhyme. Thomas Wyatt Shakespeare perfected English sonnets. Jonson and Donne sonneteers Metaphysical poetry 4. Metaphysical poetry: The term metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellious（反叛的） spirit, the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. The diction（用词） is simple as compared with that of the Elizabethan or the Neoclassic（新古典主义的）periods, and echoes the words and cadences of common speech. The imagery in drawn from the actual life. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poets beloved, with God, or with himself. Questions for appreciation 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure? 2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love? What is peculiar of this love poem? 3. What figures