威廉华兹华斯写这首诗的小屋(Dove.ppt

William Wordsworth Life Early years: born and grew up in the Lake District 1787: Cambridge University 1790-91: tour to France 1797: friendship with Coleridge 1799: settled in the Lake District 1843: Poet Laureate Grasmere 威廉华兹华斯写这首诗的小屋（Dove Cottage），在英格兰湖区（Lake District）一个叫Grasmere的小城旁边，小城依山傍水，风景秀美，是一个令人不想离去的好地方： Dove Cottage Poetic principles Preface to Lyrical Ballads: the manifesto of the English Romanticism Poetry: “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Subject matters: incidents and situations form common life Poetic language: “endeavored to bring language near to the real language of man”. Nature inspires poetry Major works Lyrical Ballads --- simple language --- sympathy with the poor --- fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind “Lucy” poems --- harmony between humanity and nature The Prelude --- spiritual record of his mind and his philosophy of life According to the subject matters, Wordsworth’s short poems can be divided into two groups: the poems of nature and the poems about human life. He is a poet of nature and a master hand in searching and revealing the feelings of the common people. “a worshipper of nature” I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud “And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils: Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ? Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dances. ? The waves beside them danced; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay; In such a jocund company; I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: ? For oft, when on my couch I lie In va