Emily DickinsonMy favorite writer is Emily Dickinson. Like Whitman, she broke the limitations of her time. Though she left us more than 1770 poems, only several of these poems are published before she died. From her twentieth, she began to get rid of the contact with society. So we do not know much information about her, which made us feel hard to know the exact meaning of her poetry. Her style was influenced greatly by Emerson. Though she almost did not go to the outdoor, she lived a colorful spirit life. She was very important in American literature.The themes of Emily Dickinson’s poems are love, nature, doubt and faith, suffering, death and immortality. For example, she writes To Make a Prairie… and I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce.The style of her poems is terse and frequently imagistic style. That style is very modern and innovative. Dickinson explores the inside world. Her poetry is marked for her concise, direct and simple diction and syntax.Although she had normal and vivacious girlhood, her poetry illustrates the doctrine predestination and pessimism, so that her basic tone was tragic. She sees nature as both gaily benevolent and cruel. On the ethical level she emphasizes free-will and human responsibility. Like Emerson, she holds that beauty, truth and goodness are ultimately one. She says “For Beauty,” I replied—“and I--for Truth--Themselves are One— we Brethren, are,” he said-- The artistic features of her poems lie in her innovation in rhyme and her structural patterns. She used “consonance” which means similarity of final consonants. For example, in Success Is Counted Sweetest, in the second stanza, “today” and “victory” are consonance. Another rhyme she used is assonance: the final vowels correspond, but the consonants are different. Her major pattern is that of a sermon: statement or introduction of topic, elaboration and conclusion. There are three variations of this major pattern. Firstly, the poet makes her initial announcement of topic in an unfigured line. Secondly, she uses a figure for that purpose. Thirdly, she repeated her statement and its elaboration a number of times before drawing a conclusion.The characters of Emily Dickinson’s poems are as follows: first, frequent use of dashes, such as the poem I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce; second, sporadic capitalization of nouns; third, convoluted and ungrammatical phrasing; forth, off-rhymes; innovation in rhyme; fifth, compressed, broken meters; sixth, bold and unconventional and often startling metaphors, for example, “ And so, as Kinsmen met a Night— We talked between the Rooms-- Until the Moss had reached our lips— And covered up—our names--”; seventh, aphoristic wit; eighth, begin with “I”, such as “I’m nobody! Who are you”; ninth, ambiguity of meaning and syntax, this is because we do not have enough documents about Emily Dickinson; last, elliptical—she will say no more than she must, because she was influenced by the doctrine of her religion.。
安吉丽娜·朱莉的血与蜜之歌2008年时,朱莉已成为全球女星片酬榜单、票房号召力榜单、权势榜单、影响力榜单都居第一的演员,而今年11月,朱莉突然在接受杂志采访时表示,自己在表演方面已失去了兴趣,她表示会放弃自己的表演事业,专心做导演。
她解释说:“其实我一直都不享受表演,我也不想总出现在镜头前,对我来说做导演比当演员更让我快乐。
”在看到下面的文章之前,我无法理解对于一位世界级演员来说,是什么让朱莉决定停止演绎的步伐,后来我揣测或许在于认清生命之后,她找到了什么是她最想要的。
--------------------安吉丽娜·茱莉的独白:《我的医疗选择》Angelina Jolie My medical choiceMy mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She heldout long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in herarms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her andexperience how loving and gracious she was.我的母亲56岁那年因癌症去世,在此之前,她与病魔斗争了将近十年。
她一直坚持到看到我最大的孩子出生,还曾拥他们入怀。
然而,年龄更小的孩子们却从未有机会认识自己的外婆,感受她的慈爱和蔼。
We often speak of "Mommy's mommy," and I find myself tryingto explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the samecould happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is Icarry a "faulty" gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk ofdeveloping breast cancer and ovarian cancer.我们经常说起“妈妈的妈妈”,我试着向孩子们解释这种夺走了外婆的疾病。
