Annabel Lee
——Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest literary figures in the history of American literature. He develops his own poetic theories and tries to apply the theories to his writing. Poe is against the didactic function of poetry, advocating that poetry should be a rhythmical creation of beauty. Poe's poems are perfect illustrations of his poetic theories. His poems are aimed at producing a melancholy feeling in the reader and make the reader feel the metrical beauty of poems.His poetic works are well appreciated all over the world. "Annabel Lee" is one of his last poems and also one of his best poems. The poem is also well organized, with a musical rhythm and fairy tale form.
Annabel Lee, like many other poems of Edgar Allan Poe, describes the theme of the death of a beautiful woman which is called “the most poetical topic in the world” by the poet himself. In the poem, the narrator and Annabel Lee had an extremely strong love for each other since they were children. Unfortunately, their love is so strong that even angels envy them and Annabel Lee was killed by them. However, the narrator retains the deep love for her after her death. Just as the last stanza shows us, the narrator dreams about Annabel everyday and lies by the side of her tomb at night. It seems that their love is beyond grave and death. There are many speculation of who is the inspiration of Annabel Lee. I would like to believe that Annabel L ee is referring to Poe’s wife Virginia who died at the age of 26. She was loved as a child by Edgar Allen Poe because she was only 13 when she married the 27-year-old Poe. And she was the only bride of him. Poe set the scene in a kingdom by the sea and uses some images like sepulcher and tomb, which add some Gothic touch to the poem. With the repetition of some words and phrases, the poem has a nostalgic tone and gives us a mournful feeling. The mysterious tone of the poem makes us feel that only in mysterious and ancient time does such kind of love exist. Besides the content, the poetic structure of this poem is also what I appreciate. It is composed of six stanzas with lines at different length, which gives me a feeling of the waves of the ocean. When I read it, the rhyme and the different length makes it has a musical effect and it is like telling a story to someone. "Annabel Lee" was composed in the form of a fairy tale.First, the poet chose simple everyday words as that of tales to compose his poem, so that it could be easily reached by everyone, even by small children. Second, the starting line "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea," suggests that the tale has existed for a long time and it has been told many times, which indicates the strong love between the narrator and Annabel Lee doesn't fade with time, and it will be told from generation to generation; by this way, their love will reach immortality."Annabel Lee" also shows some characteristics of a ballad.For example: The language is simple; it is accessible to the common people and children. The theme is tragic and the tone is melancholy; the poem tells the death of a beloved young beauty,which is the most frequently seen theme in Poe's poems. Poe uses insistent repetition of phrases like "Annabel Lee", "in this kingdom by the sea" for effect, which might be considered as refrains in a ballad.
Let’s appreciate it carefully.
In Stanza 1, "maiden" implies the narrator hasn't consummated with Annalbel Lee before she had been
dead, and it symbolizes the innocence and pure. As above "many and many" and "love and be loved", Poe utilizes the repetition to enhance the rhythm of the poem.
However, we can also find the repetition in Stanza 2, as the sounds of "w" and "l": But we loved with a love that was more than love. "I was a child and she was a child, here we find the repetition of the word, child suggesting the amazement and fascination in youth.
Poe uses "sepulchre" in Stanza 3 and we can see "tomb" in Stanza 6; the former is where Annabel Lee is buried in and the latter is where Annabel Lee's soul rest in, furthermore "tomb" deepens the ominus connotion with finality, just like a more deathly toll of a funeral bell. There're rhyme and alliteration as follows:
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
Let's get an overlook on Stanza 4 and Stanza 5, then we can find that Poe heavily uses alliteration just in want of creating fascinating sound patterns, as the following sentense in these two Stanzas:
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we -
Of many far wiser than we -
"In the kingdom of the sea" and "Annabel Lee" are repeated by the narrator in term of a repetition of Poe, which is murmured by the narrtor after losing his lover, Annabel Lee. And now Annabel Lee in the kingdom of the sea seems to be a nightmare.
Throughout the poem, Poe utilizes the imagery of drak and light, and indicates that in this kingdom by the sea is a very bright, pleasing and peaceful place with sunshine on the narrator and his beautiful Annabel Lee, but, irronically, it's the very angles, Seraphs from another same place like the kingdom of the sea, lightful and cheering, that let the sky get dark (the wind came out of the cloud one night) and send the chilling and killing wind that takes Annabel Lee away from the narrator and this Kingdom of the sea and push her into the sepulchre, and even the tomb because of envy and jealousy. However, it also gives us an evidence that the narrator is very childish and hasn't grown up yet since he went throgh the lose. The repetiton of his word implies that he is trying to rationalize his feeling and be mature.
And then the last four lines in Stanza 5, which're totally different from The Raven, Poe or the narrator, believes that two can be one or reunited by love even beyond the death and none can dissever the soul from the other soul of the two lovers. It's the last poem of Edgar Allen Poe so that we can see mature and tranquility in this poem. In Stanza 6, Poe uses the light of the moon and the brightness of the star to account so strong love of the narrator and Annabel Lee that he lies down by her side in her sepulchre and her tomb by the sea where love is everything, even the narrator's life.
What a bitter sweetness love is!
Mood and Tone of the Poem
"Annabel Lee" is a poem Poe wrote to grieve over his early-died wife. At the beginning,the tone of the poem is quietly mournful. It feels like that the narrator is lost in thought, recalling the precious love between him and Annabel Lee. By and by, with the narrator thinking of the death of Annabel Lee, the tone becomes more mournful.When it reaches the fourth stanza where the reason of Annabel Lee's death is revealed, the tone is indignant. The narrator becomes angry at the winged seraphs, since they take away his lover. Then the tone becomes more and more emphatic and risesto its emotional climax in the last stanza. Everything in the world makes the narrator think of Annabel Lee. Hence the narrator expresses his strong will of loving Annabel Lee forever. In a word, the poem is an elegy written to his dead wife; it wears a mournful and melancholy tone.
Rhythm of the Poem
Poe believes that beauty is the sole purpose of the poem. He insists on an even metrical flow in versification. Therefore, all his poems are rhythmical and musical. "Annabel Lee" was mainly written in anapestic trimeter, tetrameter, and sometimes dimeter.The poem consists of six stanzas. the first, second, and fourth stanza each contains six lines, the third and sixth stanza eight lines, and the fifth stanza seven lines. What's more, the lines are also of different lengths. One long line is frequently followed by a short one. Different lengths of lines and stanzas create a rise and fall rhythm, just like the ebbing and flowing of the sea which create a melancholy and sad feeling in the reader.The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is ababcb; the second stanza is abcbdb; the third stanza is abcbdbeb, and rhyme schemes of the last three stanzas are abcbdb, abbabcb, abcbddbb. From here you can see that the rhyme scheme is not so regular among each stanza, but the [i:] sound is the basic rhyme through the whole poem. This kind of rhyme scheme reflects the unchanging love of the two lovers. [i:] is a long front close vowel, the sound of which is similar to the weeping of people. Therefore the frequent use of this rhyme adds the great sorrow of the narrator at losing his loved one. Another frequently used rhyme is [ai] such as in "night", "tide", "side", "eye" and "bride". This use of this diphthong can create a high pitch, which expressed the anger of the narrator towards the seraphs.Poe also used other rhyming types: Alliteration of [m] and [奁] in the line "That a maiden there lived whom you may know". Assonance of [ei] in the same line with "maiden" and "may"; [i耷] in "chilling and killing my Annabel Lee". "Chilling" and "killing" is also an example of end rhyme and feminine rhyme. Internal rhymes like "beams" and "dreams" in the line "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams". All in all, [m], [n], [耷], [奁] and [i:] are the recurrent sounds in the poem. These sounds usually create a low mood and make people want to cry. The repetition of "Annabel Lee" and "in this kingdom by the sea" feels like the insistent tolling of a bell at a funeral, leaving the reader in great sadness.
Imagery of the poem
Image is the soul of poetry as language is the body of poetry. In this poem, Poe uses a lot of images to create a melancholy feeling in the reader. The images of "the kingdom by the sea", "the seraphs" and "the demons" create a mythical remote atmosphere. This implies that there love is so great and beautiful that it could only exist in a remote kingdom by the sea. "Children" implies that their love is pure and innocent, without being aware of the earthly troubles. "The moon" and "the stars" are the images of the universe, which show that all the things in the world make the narrator think of Annabel Lee. "The night tide" and " the sepulcher" create a gothic mood of the poem. "The sounding sea" is used to emphasize the quietness of the kingdom by contrast, and at the same time implies the changing of time in order to show the unchanging love by contrast. Reading the poem, the reader can see the moon, the stars and the
kingdom by the sea, can feel the chilling wind from heaven, and can hear the noise of the sounding sea. The poem employs people's senses and imagination to create a picture of a fairy tale scene. Conclusion
Poe says in his "The Poetic Principle" that the poem should be short, readable at one sitting. Its chief aim is beauty. "Annabel Lee" is just a good illustration of his poetic theories. The poem consists of 41lines, just readable at one sitting. He also concludes that the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world. The poem tells the death of Annabel Lee---the loss of a beautiful woman the narrator loves so much,hence producing a melancholy feeling in the reader. Poe stresses rhythm, and defines true poetry as "the rhythmical creation of beauty". His style is traditional, employing regular rhyme schemes and all kinds of poetic devices to compose the poem in order to achieve a musical effect. Unlike his other works, "Annabel Lee" is easy to read, using simple words and simple form creating a simple fairy tale.
英语诗歌赏析：Whatever You Say, Say Nothing "Religion's never mentioned here", of course. "You know them by their eyes," and hold your tongue. "One side's as bad as the other," never worse. Christ, it's near time that some small leak was sprung In the great dykes the Dutchman made To dam the dangerous tide that followed Seamus. Yet for all this art and sedentary trade I am incapable. The famous Northern reticence, the tight gag of place And times： yes, yes. Of the "wee six" I sing Where to be saved you only must save face And whatever you say, you say nothing. Smoke-signals are loud-mouthed compared with us： Manoeuvrings to find out name and school, Subtle discrimination by addresses With hardly an exception to the rule That Norman, Ken and Sidney signalled Prod And Seamus (call me Sean) was sure-fire Pape. O land of password, handgrip, wink and nod,
Appreciation of the Poem “Ode to the West Wind” Class 0801 Name Zhao Xiaoning Student Number 2008030112
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Abstract: Ode to the West Wind is the most classical works of Shelley The poet came up with the thought when he is walking in a forest and a strong storm seemed to come soon. And the storm came together with wind and hails. In such weather Shelley thought of many things of the society. Under this atmosphere he wrote the poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Key Words: Lyric image aesthetics the west wind
适合朗诵的英文诗歌欣赏 【篇一】适合朗诵的英文诗歌欣赏 The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 牧羊恋歌克里斯托夫·马洛 Come live with me and be my love, 来与我同住吧，做我的爱人， And we will all the pleasures prove, 我们将共享一切欢乐; That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, 来自河谷、树丛、山岳、田野， Woods, or steepy mountain yields. 来自森林或陡峭的峻岭。 And we will sit upon the Rocks, 我们将坐在岩石上， Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, 看牧人们放羊。 By shallow Rivers to whose falls 浅浅的小河流向瀑布， Melodious birds sing Madrigals. 小鸟唱着甜美的情歌。
And I will make thee beds of Roses 我将为你用玫瑰作床， And a thousand fragrant posies, 还有上千支花束， A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 一顶鲜花编的花冠，一条长裙Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;绣满桃金娘的绿叶。 A gown made of the finest wool 用最细的羊毛织一条长袍， Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;羊毛剪自我们最可爱的羊羔， Fair lined slippers for the cold, 一双漂亮的衬绒软鞋为你御寒， With buckles of the purest gold; 上面有纯金的带扣。 A belt of straw and Ivy buds, 麦草和长春藤花蕾编的腰带， With Coral clasps and Amber studs： 珊瑚作钩，琥珀作扣， And if these pleasures may thee move,
The analysis of Ode to the West Wind Ode to the West Wind is the most famous lyric poem written by Shelley. There are five stanzas in the poem. In the first stanza, the poet uses the personification like “breath” to help describe the wet wind scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds, here the poet gives us a image that the west wind is “destroyer and preserver”. In the next two stanzas, the poet describes how the west wind conquers the sea and the sky, we can see the west wind’s great power. In the last two stanzas, the poet expresses her wish to become the west wind. From the poem we can see many images are used, such as “the dead leaves, the cloud and the wave”, and they all help to describe the west wind’s power, so is the west wind also just a image? To get the answer we must know the background when Shelley wrote the poem. The poem was written in 1819 when European worker’s movement and the revolution were going on. British working class fought with the bourgeoisie for their right to make a living. Concerning this fact we can see that the west wind is not only a image, it is a symbol, namely that the west wind is like the revolution which destroys the old world and creates the new world. In this poem, the poet turn to the west wind for help because in her heart, the west wind stands for the moral and the spirit, it can give people power. The poem is a ode. The stanza used in this ode was developed by Shelley from the interlaced three-line units of the Italian terza rima: aba bcb cdc and so on. Shelley’s stanza consists of a set of four such tercets, closed by a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the preceding tercet: aba bab cdc ded ee. This kind of rhyme breaks the old rule and describes the west wind’s great power vividly.
十二篇经典英文诗歌赏析 大家都来看一下，学习一下吧。 【1】Rain雨 Rain is falling all around, 雨儿在到处降落， It falls on field and tree, 它落在田野和树梢， It rains on the umbrella here, 它落在这边的雨伞上，And on the ships at sea. 又落在航行海上的船只。 by R. L. Stevenson, 1850-1894 【2】What Does The Bee Do? What does the bee do? 蜜蜂做些什么? Bring home honey. 把蜂蜜带回家。 And what does Father do? 父亲做些什么? Bring home money. 把钱带回家。 And what does Mother do? 母亲做些什么? Lay out the money. 把钱用光。 And what does baby do?婴儿做些什么? Eat up the honey. 把蜜吃光。 by C. G. Rossetti, 1830-1894 【3】O Sailor, Come Ashore啊!水手，上岸吧 (Part I) O sailor, come ashore 啊!水手，上岸吧 What have you brought for me? 你给我带来什么? Red coral , white coral, 海里的珊瑚， Coral from the sea. 红的，白的。 (Part II) I did not dig it from the ground 它不是我从地下挖的，Nor pluck it from a tree; 也不是从树上摘的; Feeble insects made it 它是暴风雨的海裹 In the stormy sea. 弱小昆虫做成的。
Teaching Plan for Poetry Appreciation Class < A Perfect Day > Wuxi NO.3 Senior School Grade Two By Wu Yan
A Perfect Day When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the bells ring out with a carol gay, For the joy that the day has brought Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part? Well, this is the end of a perfect day, Near the end a journey too; But it leaves a thought that is big and strong, with a wish that is kind and true. For memory has painted this perfect day, With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we’ve made
Summary The speaker invokes the “wild West Wind”of autumn, which scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds so that they may be nurtured by the spring, and asks that the wind, a “destroyer and preserver,”hear him. The speaker calls the wind the “dirge / Of the dying year,”and describes how it stirs up violent storms, and again implores it to hear him. The speaker says that the wind stirs the Mediterranean from “his summer dreams,”and cleaves the Atlantic into choppy chasms, making the “sapless foliage”of the ocean tremble, and asks for a third time that it hear him.The speaker says that if he were a dead leaf that the wind could bear, or a cloud it could carry, or a wave it could push, or even if he were, as a boy, “the comrade”of the wind’s “wandering over heaven,”then he would never have needed to pray to the wind and invoke its powers. He pleads with the wind to lift him “as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!”—for though he is like the wind at heart, untamable and proud—he is now chained and bowed with the weight of his hours upon the earth.The speaker asks the wind to “make me thy lyre,”to be his own Spirit, and to drive his thoughts across the universe, “like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth.”He asks the wind, by the incantation of this verse, to scatter his words among mankind, to be the “trumpet of a prophecy.”Speaking both in regard to the season and in regard to the effect upon mankind that he hopes his words to have, the speaker asks: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”Form Each of the seven parts of “Ode to the West Wind”contains five stanzas—four three-line stanzas and a two-line couplet, all metered in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme in each part follows a pattern known as terza rima, the three-line rhyme scheme employed by Dante in his Divine Comedy. In the three-line terza rima stanza, the first and third lines rhyme, and the middle line does not; then the end sound of that middle line is employed as the rhyme for the first and third lines in the next stanza. The final couplet rhymes with the middle line of the last three-line stanza. Thus each of the seven parts of “Ode to the West Wind”follows this scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EE. Commentary The wispy, fluid terza rima of “Ode to the West Wind”finds Shelley taking a long thematic leap beyond the scope of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,”and incorporating his own art into his meditation on beauty and the natural world. Shelley invokes the wind magically, describing its power and its role as both “destroyer and preserver,”and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor “as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!”In the fifth section, the poet then takes a remarkable turn, transforming the wind into a metaphor for his own art, the expressive capacity that drives “dead thoughts”like “withered leaves”over the universe, to “quicken a new birth”—that is, to quicken the coming of the spring. Here the spring season is a metaphor for a “spring”of human consciousness, imagination, liberty, or morality—all the things Shelley hoped his art could help to bring about in the human mind. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, and in the same movement he makes it his metaphorical spirit, his poetic faculty, which will play him like a musical instrument, the way the wind strums the leaves of the trees. The thematic implication is significant: whereas the older generation of Romantic poets viewed nature as a source of truth and authentic experience, the younger generation largely viewed nature as a source of beauty and aesthetic experience. In this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quality, and ultimate effect of aesthetic expression
经典英文诗歌赏析(全) 一 nothing gold can stay 1简介：《美景易逝(Nothing Gold Can Stay)》罗伯特弗罗斯特 的代表作之一。此诗于1923年写就，即于当年十月在《耶鲁杂志(The Yale Review)》上刊印出版，随后就被收录到弗罗斯特的一本名为 《新罕布什尔州(New Hampshire)》的诗集中。 2诗歌翻译： Nothing gold can stay 岁月留金 Nature's first green is gold, 大自然的第一抹新绿是金， Her hardest hue to hold. 也是她最无力保留的颜色.。 Her early leaf's a flower; 她初发的叶子如同一朵花,; But only so an hour. 不过只能持续若此一刹那。 Then leaf subsides leaf, 随之如花新叶沦落为旧叶。 So Eden sank to grief. 由是伊甸园陷入忧伤悲切， So down gose down to day, 破晓黎明延续至晃晃白昼。 Nothing gold can stay. 宝贵如金之物岁月难保留。 3诗歌赏析：这首诗揭示了一切真切而美好的事物最终定会逐渐消失的哲理。它同时也使用了独特的技巧来表现了季节的变化。想到了 小时了了，大未必佳。一切都是转瞬即逝的，浮世有的仅仅转丸般的 繁华。 二 the road not taken 1诗歌简介：这首名诗《The Road NotTaken》形式是传统的抑扬 格四音步，但音步可变(含有很多抑抑扬的成分);每节的韵式为abaab 。
《英语诗歌欣赏》课程教学诗选 Types of Poetry Unit one Nature The Pasture Robert Frost (1874–1963) I’M going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I shan’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue. I shan’t be gone long.—You come too. 牧场 罗伯特·弗罗斯特 (1874–1963) 我去清一清牧场的泉水， 我只停下来把落叶全耙去 （还瞧着泉水变得明净—也许）； 我不会去得太久。—你也来吧。 我去把那幼小的牛犊抱来， 它站在母牛身边，小得可怜，一摇一晃，当母牛给她舔舔；我不会去得太久。—你也来吧。 （方平译） Daffodils William Wordsworth (1770-1850) I wondered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Name：段曦Class：英语0901 Number：08 On the Image of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” As the most famous representative of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s thoughts and feelings, “ode to the west wind” sets up strong and powerful image of the west wind as the destroyer and the preserver, showing the poet’s critical attitude towards the ugly social reality of his days and his faith in a bright future for humanity. ●Part 1 (stanza 1~3) The effects of the west wind The first stanza begins with the alliteration (“wild West Wind”) which indicates that the wind is vigorous and powerful. The “Wild Spirit”is both“the Destroyer”and“the Preserver”. This autumnal wind is personified as human being (“breath of autumn’s being”), because only our humans have the revolutionary power to destroy the old society which is symbolized by “the leaves dead”and create a new world symbolized by “the winged seeds”. The second stanza describes the wind’s activity on the clouds in the sky. The “clouds” are “Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean” by the influence of the wind, getting together with the “black rain and fire and hail”, which probably heralds a revolutionary storm to ruin the corruptive old things. The third stanza focuses on the tremendous force of the wind on the waves. “The blue Mediterranean” symbolizes the rulers who were being lulled into a false sense of security in the 19th century by “his chrystalline streams”and “azure moss and flowers”. All this looks peaceful, but suddenly the peaceful waves are shaken by the west wind and ultimately are cleaved into the powerful tides (“the Atlantic’s level powers”). ●Part 2 (stanza 4~5) The poet’s eagerness and optimistic belief In the fourth stanza, the first three sentences are in subjunctive mood. The poet applies the subjunctive to feel the power influenced by the wind (“share the impulse of thy strength”), to be free like the wind (“wandering over Heaven”), and to show his eagerness to enjoy the boundless uncontrollable spirit of the wind (“like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud”). The word “comrade”implies that the poet want to be a companion of the west wind to overcome the difficulties of life (“the thorns of life”). The last stanza is the climax of the poem. Shelley compares his poem to “incantation”, and he wants to be lyre to play his words by which his curse and criticism to the society’s darkness and viciousness can be expressed completely. He wishes the wind to scatter his words among mankind (“Be through my lips to unawakened Earth”). At this point, Shelley also indicates the west wind’s power of transmitting the great
The commentary of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love This term, we took the English Poem course, in which Mr. Luo guided us fling in the poem world to appreciate the beauty of poems. In all of the poems we have learnt, I appreciate The Passionate Shepherd to His Love most. Yet I really don’t know how to appreciate a poem. Indeed, I haven’t got to the level to appreciate poems. So, I just write my own understanding to this beautiful poem. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, was written by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593○)who was an English dramatist and poet，translator of the Elizabethan area, born in Canterbury，England, died in Deptford, England. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian until his mysterious early death. Marlowe greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe’s death. Marlowe’s plays are known for the use of blank verse, and their overreaching protagonists. Marlowe was the first great English Dramatist. He brought to the English stage a new concept of tragedy, one in which the drama centers around the struggles of a man overwhelmed by his passions and ambitions. ○2This short poem is considered to be one of the most beautiful lyrics in English literature. It derives from the pastoral tradition, in which the shepherd enjoys an ideal country life, cherishing a pastoral and pure affection for his love. Strong emotion is conveyed through the beauty of nature where lovers are not disturbed by worldly concern. The first time I read the poem, I just thought it was too directly for the shepherd to express his love to the girl he loved. For me, if I were the girl, I would not accept the shepherd’s love because his love was so intensely that I don’t know how to respond his love. But the second I read it carefully, almost word by word. I was deeply moved by the shepherd’s real and pure love. In the world he created for himself and his love, the girl lived an ease life like a princess. He showed a picture on what he would promise if she accepts to be his love. There was a heavenly like scene in the picture, he imagined them sitting upon the rocks, watching the other busy shepherd who had to work hard, and they relaxed themselves by listening to the birds' singing, and seeing the river falls. The shepherd also ensured her that he is willing to do whatever it takes to please her. He was so infatuated with the girl that I am a little jealous of her. The girl was so lucky to be loved by such a infatuated and romantic man. The structure of the poem is very clear. The poetry started out with a direct initiation. The speaker showed his purpose clearly, which is asking the woman he admired to be his lover. The following stanza showed a picture on what he would promise if she accepts to be his love. Then he drew different scenes when they were together. The shepherd also ensured her that he is willing to do whatever it takes to please her. This could be seen from the line 9~18. He made promises on difficult mission such as making bed of roses, thousand fragrant posies, and leaves of myrtle, coral clasps and amber studs…ext. From line 19, it responded to the idea of the first stanza that is to persuade the woman to be his love and to live with him. The repeating sentences "come live with me and be my love," may work as the function of emphasizing, and expression of eagerness. The style and writing type of the poem is very good. This poem is a typical pastoral, that is, a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life. It sings
The road not taken 1诗歌简介:这首名诗《The Road Not Taken》形式是传统的抑扬格四音步，但音步可变(含有不少抑抑扬的成分);每节的韵式为abaab 。弗罗斯特写诗最大的特色就是善于运用眼前看似平淡无奇的事物，去表达一个深刻的哲理。这正如他在一首诗中写的：“黄色的树林里有两条岔开的路/可惜我不能在同一时间走两条路/我选择了少人行走的那条/这就造成了一切的差异。”诗人选择了诗歌，放下了在一所师范学校教书的职业以及那可能平坦，安稳的生活。他对自己说：写诗吧，穷就穷吧，于是他们就来了英国，在离伦敦不远的一个村子里找到了一座木板茅屋作为新家。 罗伯特弗罗斯特堪称美国20世纪90年代最受欢迎的诗人之一，是美国非官方的桂冠诗人，他一生致力于诗歌的创作，主要写作并出版了10部诗集，这一首是其第三部诗集《山的间隔》中的名篇。 2诗歌翻译: The Road Not Taken ——Robert Frost 未选择的路罗伯特?弗罗斯特 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 黄色的树林里分出两条路 And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足 And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立 And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去 To where it bent in the undergrowth; 直到它消失在丛林深处 Then took the other, as just as fair, 但我却选择了另外一条路 And having perhaps the better claim, 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂 Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人，更美丽 Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上 Had worn them really about the same, 都很少留下旅人的足迹 And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地