英国文学17世纪.pptVIP

;Historical Background;;Literary Characteristics ;;John Donne (1572-1631) ;Quatrain 1 2;Moving of the earth brings harm and fears:Men recon what it did and meant;But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. 地动会带来灾害和惊恐， 人们估计它干什么，要怎样 可是那些天体的震动， 虽然大得多，什么也不伤。 ;Dull sublunary lovers love? (Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth remove? Those things which elemented it. 世俗的男女彼此的相好，  （他们的灵魂是感官）就最忌  别离，因为那就会取消  组成爱恋的那一套东西。 Sublunary: literally beneath the moon. In the Ptolemaic universe, those things underneath the sphere of the moon are fallen.? So sublunary lovers are those whose love is imperfect or fallen. Soul is sense: The anatomy of the soul, which contends that there are three levels of the soul: vegetable, sensible, and rational. Those who engage in fallen love are dependent upon the senses to express and experience love; spiritual love would be located in the rational soul. ;;Our two souls, therefore, which are one,? Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,? Like gold to airy thinness beat. 两个灵魂打成了一片，  虽说我得走，却并不变成  破裂，而只是向外伸延，  像金子打到薄薄的一层。 The speaker here declares that, since the lovers two souls are one, his departure will simply expand the area of their unified soul, rather than cause a rift between them. ;Our two souls, therefore, which are one,? Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,? Like gold to airy thinness beat. The image of a dying man does not work well, so the speaker tries another image here: viewing parting not as a breach but an expansion of their souls, like gold to airy thinness beat. Problems here too: 1) makes parting sound like positively good thing; 2) the beaten gold expands without an actual increase in substance, but with an increase in fragility; 3) again, the image does not suggest the eventual reunion of the love;If they b