英美文学课件 Unit 3. onnet 130.pptVIP

Love

Outline1.Recite“WhenYouAreOld”byWilliamButlerYeats2.OralReport3.Appreciate“Sonnet130”byWilliamShakespeare

OralReportWilliamShakespeareMyFavoriteShakespearePlay

WilliamShakespeare(1564–1616)

TheSonnetItalianorigin:ThewordsonnetcomesfromItaliansonetto,meaning“littlesound”or“littlesong”.Lyricpoems14linesIambicpentameterUseofconceits:ametaphorthatthepoetusuallyextendsandelaboratesthroughoutthecourseofhispoemThePetrarchan(Italian)andtheShakespearean(English)

EnglishorShakespeareansonnetsStanzans:3Quatrains–eachpresentssimilarimagesHeroicCouplet–presentsaparadoxicalresolutionRhyme:Quatrains–ababcdcdefefCouplet-gg

Aconceitisfancifulnotion,generallyexpressedthroughanelaborateanalogyormetaphor.Herbeautyisdescribedinstereotypicalfashion:hereyessparkle,hercomplexionisivory,herlipsarerubyred,herhairisblonde,andherbearingisangelic.ShakespearepokesgreatfunatsuchconventionswithSonnet130.

Sonnet130Pleasepointouttheimagesinthepoem.WhydoyouthinkShakespearepraisehisloveinthisratherunconventionalway?

Sonnet18ShallIcomparetheetoasummersday?

???Thouartmorelovelyandmoretemperate:

RoughwindsdoshakethedarlingbudsofMay,

???Andsummersleasehathalltooshortadate:

Sometimetoohottheeyeofheavenshines,

???Andoftenishisgoldcomplexiondimmd;

Andeveryfairfromfairsometimedeclines,

???Bychance,ornatureschangingcourse,untrimmd;

Butthyeternalsummershallnotfade,

???Norlosepossessionofthatfairthouowest;

NorshallDeathbragthouwanderstinhisshade,

???Whenineternallinestotimethougrowest;

Solongasmencanbreathe,oreyescansee,

???Solonglivesthis,andthisgiveslifetothee.

Notes:thou–you(主格）thee–you(宾格）thy/thine（元音/h开头)–yourthyself–yourselfart–arehath–haswilt–willdost–dodoth–doesdidst–didcanst-can

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