英美诗歌鉴赏——ToHelen,致海伦.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 2 英美诗歌鉴赏——To Helen，致海伦 To HelenHelen, thy beauty is to me????Like those Nicean barks 平底船 of yore, 很久以前That gently, oer a perfumed 芳香的 sea,????The weary 疲倦的, wayworn 平底船 很久以前 芳香的 疲倦的 旅行累了的 漫游者，旅行者 On desperate seas long wont to roam 漫步，漫游,????Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me home????To the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur 漫步，漫游 壮丽，宏伟 Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche 壁龛????How statue-like 向雕像一样 I see thee stand,????The agate 壁龛 向雕像一样 玛瑙的 The writer Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809. His father deserted the family, and his mother died when Poe was three. Poe was taken into the home of his uncle. In 1826, he entered the University of Virginia, only to drop out later . He was sent to West Point and dismissed, too. Then he turned to fiction writing to support himself. He worked as an editor throughout his life. His wife’s death in 1847, drove Poe to heavy drinking occasionally. One day in 1849, he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street and then Poe established himself as a successful short story writer and literary critic. He succeeded in formulating influential literary theories and in demonstrating mastery of the forms he favored_hinghly musical poems and short prose narratives. His theory of short fiction is best exemplified in Ligeia and The Fall of The House of Usher, which was to become one of his most famous stories. Poe wrote To Helen as a reflection on the beauty of Mrs.Standard who died in 1824. She encouraged Poe to write poems when he was 14. Poe regarded her as his first , pure love. First, let us see the clever rhymes in this great poem. Alliteration: the /w/ in “?The weary, wayworn wanderer bore” and the /s/ in “?How statue-like I see thee stand” .assonance: both “like” and “Nicean” have the vowel /ai/; both “wont” and “roam” have the vowel / / ; “agate”,“lamp” and“hand”all have the vowel / /. Rhyme: “me” and “sea”; ”yore”, ”bore” and “shore”; “roam”, “home” an