美国文学 课件 01 Colonial Literature.ppt

Colonial Literature Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor Anne Bradstreet in her bedroom. Anne Bradstreet Anne’s life time (1612-1672) The first American poet Married Simon Bradstreet (1628) Immigrant to the USA （1630） Drawing of Anne Bradstreets home, North Andover, Mass The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665Anne Bradstreet Farewell, dear babe, my hearts too much content, Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye, Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent, Then taken away unto eternity. Blest babe, why should I once bewail thy fate, Or sigh thy days so soon were terminate, Sith thou are settled in an everlasting state. By nature trees do rot when they are grown, And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall, And corn and grass are in their season mown, And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. 别了，亲爱的孩子，我心已安宁， 别了，亲爱的孩子，我眼中的快慰， 别了，美丽的花朵，获短暂的光阴， 然后就被永恒的来世召回。 我为何要哀叹你的命运，福佑的孩子， 或者为你的岁月早早结束而叹息， 如果安身在永恒的境界，你业已。 天性使树木成材就腐朽， 李子和苹果熟透就脱落， 谷物和青草随季节而割收， 时间灭万物，尽管它强壮而巨硕。 但是新生的幼苗被连根拔除。 新开的蓓蕾就薄命寡福， 那定是被自然和命运的主宰所戮。 Analysis of this poem babe and flower. my hearts too much content the pleasure of mine eye, it shows a deeply saddened grandmother by the loss of her grandchild. fair flower that for a space was lent. This lent sounds as though the girl was robbed of the fullness of life But who decides who gets to live? God. God didnt let her granddaughter live, and, resultantly, she is marking his decision as a mistake by complaining about it. This is not characteristic for one of such alleged concrete beliefs in God. Part two describes the cycle in nature. Trees, fruit, and grass rot when thoroughly grown, death occurs when the time for life is expired. All the fruit and