广外英语文学欣赏U1

1、Unit one IdentityOutlinevIm Nobody! Who are you? (by Emily Dickinson)vTheme for English B (by Langston Hughes)vLiterary FocusWhere Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin(高更）. 1897.Emily Dickinson (1830 -1886)va recluse in Amherst “美国隐士女诗人”vshe was delighted in solitude.(孤独是迷

2、人的）vNature is the permanent motif for her poems.v one of the most innovative poets of 19th-century American literature (frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes, broken metre, unconventional metaphors )Im Nobody! Who are you?vIm Nobody! Who are you?vAre you Nobody Too?vTh

3、en theres a pair of us!vDont tell! Theyd banish us (advertise) you know!vHow dreary to be Somebody!vHow public like a Frog vTo tell ones name the livelong June vTo an admiring Bog!v我是无名人物！你是谁？v你也是无名人物？v那么我们俩就是一双！但别声张！v你知道吗，他们容不下我们俩！v做个名人多么无聊！v像只招摇的青蛙v向着仰慕它的池沼v在漫长的六月里自吹自擂我是无名人物！你是谁？迪金森Questionsv1. Wh

4、at does “I” refer to?v2. Who are the “pair of us” and “they”?v3. In what way is “somebody” comparable with “a frog”?v4. What does “the livelong June” refer to?v5.What does “an admiring bog” refer to? How to understand the word “admiring”?v6. What is like to be “somebody”? Do you want to be “nobody”

5、or “somebody”? Explain.v7. What is the function of dashes?Terms in “Theme for English B”vHarlem美国纽约市的黑人居住区vBessie黑人女歌手;布鲁斯vBop (bebop)博普爵士乐vBach巴赫Questionsv1. Who does “I” refer to?v2. What is special of this speaker in his class? What does it imply?v3. Why to the speaker “ Its not easy to know what

6、 is true for you or me”?v4. How do you understand the sentences “ So will my page be colored that I write?/ Being me it will not be white.”?v5. Why does the speaker say “You are white -/yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. Thats American.”?v6. What questions does the poet pose in the poem?I, I,

7、too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.I, Too, Sing America Langston HughesTomorrow,Ill be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobodyll dareSay to me,Eat in the kitchen,Then.Besides,Theyll see how beautiful I

8、 amAnd be ashamed-I, too, am America. http:/ Focus (Page 6)vThe Speaker and the Poet or Author “I” - the speaker; the voice, or mask or persona(角色) that speaks the poem.Literary Focus (Page 15)vImage(意象) v- it is a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience./it is whatever appeals to

9、 any of our senses (including sense of hearing as well as of sight, smell, taste, touch and sound).vA literal imagevA figurative image (“Frog”; “Bog”)Literary Focus (Page 13)vWhat is Poetry? vPoetry might be defined, initially, as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than doe

10、s ordinary language.v“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling, recollected in tranquility” (by William Wordsworth)Literature FocusvReading the Poemv1. Read a poem more than once.v2. Keep a dictionary by you and use it.v3. Read so as to hear the sounds of the words in your mind.v4. Always pay careful attention to what the poem is saying.v5. Practice reading poems aloud.Writing assignmentv“Who Am I?”P