高级英语 Transcendentalism课件.pptVIP

神龟虽寿，猷有竟时。腾蛇乘雾，终为土灰。老骥伏枥，志在千里；烈士暮年，壮心不已。盈缩之期，不但在天；养怡之福，可得永年。幸甚至哉！歌以咏志。 American Romanticism 1820-1865 Quiz Two 1. What does “Last” mean in Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”? Explain why by citing from the poem. What do you think is the cause of the lady becoming the Duke’s “Last Duchess”? Why? 2. Please define “Dramatic Monologue” by citing “My Last Duchess”. 3. Please make analyses of the Duke’s and the Duchess’s characters. 4. Please define “Transcendentalism” by citing “Transcendentalism According to Emerson” by Terence George Craddock 5. Make a comparison between “O! Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, poems both by Walt Whitman. 6. Make a comparison between “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Death, Be Not Proud!” by John Donne, especially their death theme. 7. Read Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” and answer the following questions: (1) How is the difference between wisdom and knowledge defined in the poem, and, how do we define it today? (2) Why do you think the speaker goes to the lecture in the first place? (3) Is the speaker an example of Emersons notion of self-reliance? Why or why not? (4) Do you think the speaker has acquired a kind of wisdom by the end of the poem, has he possessed it all along, or is he no wiser than he was at the beginning? The Rhodora On Being Asked, Whence is the Flower? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to as