Nathaniel Hawthorne霍桑
Imbued with an inquiring, imagination, an intensely meditative mid, unceasing interest in the interior of the heart of man's being, 霍桑remains one of the most interesting, yet most ambivalent writers in the American literary history.
霍桑是美国文学史上最富矛盾情感的作家，他极富想象，喜欢沉思，对人类的内心世界具有极大的兴趣。
霍桑's view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in puritanism.
霍桑's remarkable sense of the Puritan past, his understanding of the colonial history in New England, his apparent occupation with the moral issues of sin and guilty, and his keen psychological analysis of people are brought to full display in his master piece.
霍桑对清教的历史，对新英格兰殖民地历史上理解，对罪恶道德上剖析以及对之的心理分析，在他的名著The Scarlet Letter中得到了充分的体现。
The Minister's Black V eil, the parable by 霍桑, published in The Token1836 and in Twice- Told Tales 1837.
The reverend Mr. Hooper, a New England Puritan minister, appears one Sunday with his face covered by a black veil. Refusing to explain his action to his terrified congregation or to his fiancee, who leaves him, he goes through life concealing his face, saying only that the veil is a symbol of the curtain that hides every man's heart and makes him a stranger even to his friend, his lover, and his God.
Excelsior, poem by Longfellow, published in Ballads and Other Poems1841. In four-stress iambic collplets, with the title as a refrain, the poem figuratively depicts the life of a man of genius, as he maintains his individualistic purpose, resisting temptations and ignoring warnings. Climbing the mountain of his career, he passed beyond the village and monastery, repeating his idealistic motto, until he is found dead on the highest glacier. Even then a voice heard from the sley proclaiming the motto as a promise of immortality.
Excelsior
Discuss the moral of this parable poem.-- immortality, brave, resist the tempurition. Even if the young man is brave, determined, and the young tried to get his goal, to reach the destination, but it is pity that the young didn't listen to the old man. If he wanted to get his goal without considering the difficulties and risks.
The Quadroon Girl
How does the poet show his sympathy for the girl?
The girl is very important, she didn't know what would happen. She had no protection. Such innocent and pale girl could not control not be a paramour of her fate.
Ballads and Other Poems1841 contains many Longfellow's most famous poem, of all the poems in the colume, the most famous one is "Excelsior". It was regarded as an inspiring expression of idealism. It is a young man climbing a mountain in the Alps. A terrible stormis coming but he never stops. When he is invited by a beautiful maiden to rest, he does not stop and climbs on to the top of the mountains.
