美国文学期末考试-诗歌赏析部分.docVIP

Philip Freneau 1.??????????????????????野金银花 美丽的金银花，?你粲然绽放于幽静一角。???芳菲满枝,无人垂顾，???迎风起舞,无人注目。 游子从不践踏你的玉体，? ????????????????? 过客从不催落你的泪滴。??造化令你素裹银妆，?你得以远离庸人的目光??她赐予你一片绿荫葱葱? ?她带给你一泓流水淙淙??恬静的夏日倏然流淌?你终于红衰翠减，玉殒香消?? 妩媚动人，你却无法盛颜久长??落红满地，你令我黯然神伤?纵然在伊甸乐园，人间天堂? ?也难免一日凋零，满目凄凉?萧瑟秋风，凄白秋霜??你终于消失得无影无踪?? 朝霞幕露?孕育了你娇小的身躯?你从尘土来，又归尘土去?来时一无所有，去时化作尘土? ?可叹生命苦短??你终究红消香断?? Background: The short lyric was written in 1786. Freneau was inspired by the beauty of the wild honey suckle when he was walking at Chaeleston, South Carolina. As is displayed in this poem, honeysuckle, instead of rose of daffodil became the object of depiction; it is “wild” just to convey the fresh perception of the natural scenes on the new continent. The flowers, similar to the early Puritan settlers, used to believe they were the selects of God to be arranged on the abundant land, but now have to wake up from fantasy and be more respectful to natural law. Theme:??the?mutability?of?flowers?and?by?extension?the?transience?of?human?life. Time is constant but the time of a life is short; any favor is relative but change is absolute; with or without the awareness, nature develops; flowers were born, blossomed and declined to repose, and human beings would exist in exactly the same way. A philosophical meditation is indicated by the description of the fate of a trivial wild plant. In this poem, the poet expresses a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature. It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature. In addition, the poet writes with the strong implication that, though in the work no one is presented in person, human beings at times envy the flower. This is seen not because the “roving foot” would “crush”; nor that the “busy hand” would “provoke a tear”; nor because of the “vulgar eye”, but because of the fact that the human being has the ability to foresee his death. Whereas, the flower, with its happy ignorance, lacks this consciousness and is completely unaware of its doom. Its innocence lef