《AmericanLiterature》-课件设计（公开).ppt

Comments on Leaves of Grass Where there is earth, where there is water, there is grass. Grass, is an image of the poet himself, a symbol of the rising American nation, and an embodiment of his ideals about democracy and freedom. Reform and Liberation (p.104) Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin This is the little lady who made this big war. ----Abraham Lincoln Regionalism (p.104) Writers focus on the differences between the various regions of the United States Mark Twain Emily Dickinson Innocents Abroad (1869) Roughing it (1872) The Gilded Age (1873) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Life on the Mississippi (1883) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) His Works All modern American literature comes from one book……” ------ Hemingway My words are like water. The words of the great masters are like fine wine. But everyone drinks water. ---- Mark Twain A New Wave Writers concentrated increasingly upon the grimmer aspects of reality and a deterministic view of life. Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie The Modernists One important literary movement of the time was “Imagism”, whose poets focused on strong, concrete images. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd?; Petals on a wet, black bough. What is the one dominant image in this poem? What do “petals” and “bough” stand for? The poem retells a moment in a Paris metro station when the poet was struck by the sight of the faces of some pretty women and innocent children in a crowd. The poem expresses the joyous and exhilarating emotions of the poet. 枯藤老树昏鸦， 小桥流水人家， 古道西风瘦马。 夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。 天净沙.秋思  马致远 Lost Generation The Lost Generation is used to refer to a group of young American expatriates, who were writing chiefly in the 1920s. When the First World War broke out, many young men volunteered to take part in the war to