Emily Dickson艾米莉·狄金森

1、Emily DicksonLifeWorks and feature Views ContentsPPT模板下载： 行业PPT模板： 节日PPT模板： PPT素材下载： PPT图表下载： 优秀PPT下载： PPT教程： Word教程： Excel教程： 资料下载： PPT课件下载： 范文下载： 试卷下载： 教案下载： PPT论坛： 1Life At 17, She began college at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She became ill at the spring of her first year and did not return.Bo

2、rn in 1830one of most prominent families in Amherst, MaAmerherst AcademyShe didnt leave her familys homestead for any reason after the late 1860s.1886 Died1955: published a collection of her poemsThe Dickinson Homestead in AmherstEmily Dickinson Museum, Amherst2Works and FeatureFeature(1) No titles,

3、 short, capital letters and the use of dashes (2) directness, compact, severe economy of expression; (3) tragic; stress on inner life of the individual.Subjects Death & Immortality - the largest portion Love religion doubt and belief about religious subjects Nature She often adopts the pose of h

4、aving already died before she writes her lyric.Suffering and frustration caused by love Though she was lonely and isolated, Emily appears to have loved deeplyA fascination with natureconsumed Emily1A Bird Came Down the WalkBecause I Could Not Stop for DeathMajor worksI Heard a Fly Buzz When I diedBe

5、fore I died for Beauty-But was ScarceBecause I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-The Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove-He knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For His Civility.We passed the School, where Children stroveAt recess-

6、in the ring;We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain,We passed the Setting Sun.Or rather- He passed Us;The Dews grew quivering and chill,For only Gossamer, my Gown,My Tippet-only Tulle.We paused before House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground;The Roof was scarcely visible,The Cornice but a mound；Since

7、then-tis Centuries-and yet eachFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses headsWere toward Eternity.Dickinson describes “Death” as a gentleman driving a carriage, who is endowed with favorable human attributes of being kind. And “Immortality” is also a passenger in the carriage.The carria

8、ge trundles along at a pretty relaxed pace . Being content with Deaths politeness & charm, the woman is distracted from her work and felt completely at ease with the gentleman.Dickinson is painting a scene of what they are riding by: the School, the Fields of Gazing Grains & the Setting Sun,

9、 which respectively symbolizes her early life, the middle stage of life & the final stage of life. With the sun going down, the dew is setting in. Not warmly wearing, she is getting chilly. She is restating that the phases of her life have passed her by.Dickinson describes grave as a House. Such

10、 description indicates that the poet is quite comfortable or at ease with the location.Though centuries have passed, the poet still feels it just happened yesterday. With reference of the Horses Heads, we readers will be reminded of the vision mentioned in the 1st stanza.MetaphorAlliterationImagismP

11、ersonificationAnaphoraPersonificationHe kindly stopped for meHe slowly droveHe knew no hasteFor His CivilityDeathImmortality a gentleman with favorable characteristics: kind & polite Death is a thing not to be afraid of but to embrace.The Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality. a third

12、passenger in the carriage Death in body walks along with Immortality in mind. Death, not the end, but as a step on the way to eternal lifeAlliteration labor & leisure Recess & Ring Gazing & Grain Setting & Sun Dews & drew Gossamer & Gown Tippet & Tulle Horse & Head We

13、 passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recessin the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed the Setting Sun depict a continuity of scenes, thereby emphasizing the notion of never-endingness.Metaphor works as a process to review dying memories & displays a lifelong journey one woul

14、d experience implies the passage of birth, growth, maturity & deaththe carriage ride the cycle of life life is a journeythe Children young agesthe Gazing Grain productive years of ones lifethe Setting Sun the end of the day the end of lifea House a grave implies that the poet feels comfortable a

15、bout the Death Anaphora the speaker is passing through everything that she has already lived through. giving the readers a sense of life going by We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recessin the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed the Setting Sun work to mimic the slow progre

16、ssion of the carriage.We readers can almost hear the echo clomping of the horse, thus feeling part of the journey instead of just being outside observers . ImagismI first surmised the Horses HeadsWere toward Eternitythe last image before her deathremind the readers of the carriage mentioned at the s

17、tart of the poem It seems to turn back the time to the beginning. life is a recycling process; death is the beginning of another journey of life.the carriage ride, the School, the Fields of Gazing Grains, the Setting Sun, a Swelling of the Ground, etc.deathdeath is nothing to be feared since it is a

18、 natural part of the endless cycle of nature.death is only the beginning, because to die is to go on another journey. Although death takes one away from the earthly world, there is still something to look forward to when one dies: Eternal life.Immortality death means eternity.3ViewsThe pioneer of Imagist poetry One of the founder of modernist poetry.Comparison: Whitman vs. Dickinson 1. Similarities: (1) Thematically, they both extolled, in their different ways, an emergent Ame