美国文学史及选读PPT.pptVIP

美国文学选读 Responding to Literature Orientation  Questions for the two different groups in the class(compare the difference in the answers) 1. Why do you read literature? 2.Why do we read literature? We read it just to respond to literature and it is natural that the responses will vary. Therefore, we will have different topics for discussion, together with our literature reading . Topics Involved Youth Big city complex Crime and punishment Love Men and Women Life and Death Race, identity and Culture War Youth Lead-in Two questions Before literature reading: Do you think Youth is wasted on the young? Why? When you come to the fork in the road when traveling the road of life, how do you know which road to take? Two Poems to facilitate our thinking When I was one-and-twenty...by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)  When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.But I was one-and-twenty,No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.And I am two-and-twenty,And oh, tis true, tis true. Questions about the poem Why is it “One and twenty “ instead of “twenty one”? (Rhyme; emphasis on ‘one’ or ‘I was young then’) Who are the two characters in this poems ?what is the story told about them in the poem (Imagine when the old man was One –and -twenty)? Biography Robert Lee Frost was born March 26, 1874 Robert Frost died on January 29, 1963 He was the first 20th century poetry writer He was one of the most popular poets in his time His first book of poems, A Boy’s Will, was published in 1913 The Road not Taken???????????? --by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then to