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Philip Freneau (1752-1832) “Poet of the American Revolution” “Father of American Poetry” “Pioneer of the New Romanticism” “A gifted and versatile lyric poet” 2. His Life He was born in New York. At 16, he entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He decided do a postgraduate study in theology. But two years later he gave it up. (While still an undergraduate, he wrote in collaboration with one of his friends (H. H. Brackenridge) a poem entitled “The Rising Glory of America”.) Later he attended the War of Independence, and he was captured by British army in 1780. After being released, he published “The British Prison Ship” in 1781. In the same year, he published “To the Memory of the Brave Americans”. After war, he supported Jefferson, and contributed greatly to American government. But after 50 years old, he lived in poverty. And at last he died in a blizzard. He was the most significant poet of 18th century America. Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19th century American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville. The Wild Honeysuckle This poem was published in his Poems (1786) and was virtually unread in the time when he was living. The poem is said to anticipate the nineteenth-century romantic use of simple nature imagery. It is considered one of the author’s finest nature poems. What is a Honeysuckle? The first stanza Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. Rhyme Scheme（韵式） 1.Concept: The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza. 2.types: 1．end rhyme（尾韵）occurs at the end of a line. 1） 联韵： “aabb”型。 I shot an arrow into the air, a It fell to earth, I knew not where a For, softly it flew, the sight b Could not follow it in its flight. b Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Arrow and the