Edgar_Allan_Poe(1809—1849)埃德加_爱伦坡.pptVIP

《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是根据埃德加·爱伦坡同名的心理恐怖小说改编。讲述罗德里克与年轻的妻子玛德莱娜生活在厄舍家族的古厦里，一位医生经常来这里看望体弱多病的玛德莱娜。如同厄舍家族的所有男人，罗德里克充满激情地为妻子画肖像。在这个过程中，玛德莱娜的健康每况愈下，好像她的灵魂逐渐转移到了肖像上。随着肖像的完成，玛德莱娜停止了呼吸。深深地爱着妻子的罗德里克相信妻子只是睡着了，拒绝将她埋葬，而是在孤独中等待她的归来。一个电闪雷鸣的夜晚，他终于看到妻子活着回到了自己身边。然后，他们一起飞向天空，看到身下的厄舍古厦在雷击引起的大火中化为灰烬。 * Nice尼斯，自然风光 Nike凯旋壮美 hyacinth风信子 Naiad：water-nymph （希腊神话中的）水神 * 奥丁：挪威的智慧、战争、艺术、文化和死亡之神，被认为是最高级的神、宇宙和人类的创造者 * carrion ：腐肉 * Stanza 1 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,1While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`Tis some visitor, I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more.‘ (1) Forgotten Lore may be about the occult or black magic Stanza 7 Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -Perched upon a bust of Pallas2 just above my chamber door -Perched, and sat, and nothing more.  (2) Bust of Pallas the bust of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom Stanza 8 Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou, I said, `art sure no craven.Ghastly grim and ancient raven3 wandering from the nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Nights Plutonian shore!‘4Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. (3) The Image of Raven The ravens role as a messenger in Poes poem may draw from many stories. (4) Plutonian’s Shore The use of the raven — the devil bird — also suggests black magic. This devil image is emphasized by the narrators belief that the raven is from the Nights Plutonian shore, or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld (also known as Hades in Greek