WilliamWordsworth介绍英文ppt

1、William Wordsworth Contents1235IntroductionCreative careerMarriage and children4Poetry appreciationComparison between Wordsworth and Tao QianIntroductionWilliam Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic

2、Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).Wordsworths magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it wa

3、s generally known as the poem to Coleridge.Wordsworth was Britains Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. IntroductionThe second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, part of the

4、 scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life.They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship

5、of which he was captain, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.Introduction Wordsworths father was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale an

6、d, through his connections, lived in a large mansion in the small town. He was frequently away from home on business, so the young William and his siblings had little involvement with him and remained distant from him until his death in 1783.However, he did encourage William in his reading, and in p

7、articular set him to commit to memory large portions of verse, including works by Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser. William was also allowed to use his fathers library. William also spent time at his mothers parents house in Penrith, Cumberland, where he was exposed to the moors, but did not get alon

8、g with his grandparents or his uncle, who also lived there. His hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet inThe European Magazine. In the same year he began attending St Johns College,

9、 Cambridge. The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collectionsAn Evening WalkandDescriptive Sketches. In 1795 he received a legacy of 900 pounds from Raisley Calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet. It was also in 1795 that he metSamuel Taylor Coleridgein

10、 Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1797 Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved toAlfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridges home inNether Stowey. Together Wordsworth and Coleridge (with insights from Dorothy) producedLyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集(1798), an

11、 important work in the EnglishRomantic movement.One of Wordsworths most famous poems, Tintern Abbey丁登寺, was published in this collection, along with Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Creative career Between 1795 and 1797 Wordsworth wrote his only play,The Borderers, a verse tragedy set dur

12、ing the reign ofKing Henry III of England, when Englishmen in the North Country came into conflict with Scottish rovers.He attempted to get the play staged in November 1797, but it was rejected by Thomas Harris, the manager of the Covent Garden Theatre, who proclaimed it impossible that the play sho

13、uld succeed in the representation. The rebuff was not received lightly by Wordsworth and the play was not published until 1842, after substantial revision. During the harsh winter of 179899 Wordsworth lived with Dorothy inGoslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, began work on the autobiog

14、raphical piece that was later titledThe Prelude序曲. He wrote a number of other famous poems in Goslar, including The Lucy poems露西. In 1807 Wordsworth publishedPoems in Two Volumes, including Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.In 1814 Wordsworth published The Excursi

15、on as the second part of the three-part work The Recluse, even though he had not completed the first part or the third part, and never did. Creative career Marriage and children In 1802 Lowthers heir, William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, paid the 4,000 pounds owed to Wordsworths father through Low

16、thers failure to pay his aide.It was this repayment that afforded Wordsworth the financial means to marry. On 4 October, following his visit with Dorothy to France to arrange matters with Annette, Wordsworth married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson.Dorothy continued to live with the couple and g

17、rew close to Mary. The following year Mary gave birth to the first of five children, three of whom predeceased her and William: John Wordsworth (18 June 1803 1875). Married four times:1.Isabella Curwen (d. 1848) had six children: Jane, Henry, William, John, Charles and Edward.2.Helen Ross (d. 1854).

18、 No children3.Mary Ann Dolan (d. after 1858) had one daughter Dora (b. 1858).4.Mary Gamble. No childrenDora Wordsworth(16 August 1804 9 July 1847). MarriedEdward Quillinanin 1843.Thomas Wordsworth (15 June 1806 1 December 1812).Catherine Wordsworth (6 September 1808 4 June 1812).William Willy Wordsw

19、orth (12 May 1810 1883). Married Fanny Graham and had four children: Mary Louisa, William, Reginald, Gordon.Marriage and children1 12 2I wandered lonely as a cloudPoetry appreciationThe Solitary ReaperI wandered lonely as a cloudI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high oer vales and hills,Whe

20、n all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their hea

21、ds in sprightly dance.我孤独地漫游，像一朵云在山丘和谷地上飘荡，忽然间我看见一群金色的水仙花迎春开放，在树荫下，在湖水边，迎着微风起舞翩翩。连绵不绝，如繁星灿烂，在银河里闪闪发光，它们沿着湖湾的边缘延伸成无穷无尽的一行；我一眼看见了一万朵，在欢舞之中起伏颠簸。 The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed-and gazed-but little th

22、oughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.粼粼波光也在跳着舞，水仙的欢欣却胜过水波；与这样快活的伴侣为伍，诗人怎能不满心欢乐！我久久凝望，却想象不到这奇景赋予我多少财宝，每当

23、我躺在床上不眠，或心神空茫，或默默沉思，它们常在心灵中闪现，那是孤独之中的福祉；于是我的心便涨满幸福，和水仙一同翩翩起舞 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expre

24、ssed in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. With his pure and poetic language, Wordsworth brings us into a beautiful world where there are daffodils, trees and breeze. We come to realize the great power of nature that may influence our life deeply as revealed in the poem. as we read the

25、 poem, we become aware of the poets deep love toward nature through his lovely and vivid description about natural things with his figurative language. Poem Analysis 我好似一朵流云独自漫游是华兹华斯抒情诗的代表作之一，写于1804年。据说此诗是根据诗人兄妹俩一起外出游玩时深深地被大自然的妩媚所吸引这一经历写成的，体现了诗人关于诗歌应描写“平静中回忆起来的情感”(emotion recollected in tranquility)

26、这一诗学主张。全诗可以分成两大部分：写景和抒情。诗的开篇以第一人称叙述，格调显得低沉忧郁。诗人一方面竭力捕捉回忆的渺茫信息，另一方面又觉得独自飘游，可以自由自在地欣赏大自然所赋予的美景。他把自己比作一朵流云，随意飘荡，富有想象的诗句暗示诗人有一种排遣孤独、向往自由的心情。The Solitary ReaperBEHOLD her, single in the field, 看，一个孤独的高原姑娘，Yon solitary Highland Lass! 在远远的田野间收割，Reaping and singing by herself; 一边割一边独自歌唱，Stop here, or gently

27、 pass! 请你站住或者俏悄走过！Alone she cuts and binds the grain, 她独自把麦子割了又捆，And sings a melancholy strain; 唱出无限悲凉的歌声，O listen! for the Vale profound 屏息听吧！深广的谷地Is overflowing with the sound. 已被歌声涨满而漫溢！No Nightingale did ever chaunt 还从未有过夜莺百啭，More welcome notes to weary bands 唱出过如此迷人的歌，Of travellers in some shad

28、y haunt, 在沙漠中的绿荫间Among Arabian sands: 抚慰过疲惫的旅客；A voice so thrilling neer was heard 还从未有过杜鹃迎春，In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, 声声啼得如此震动灵魂，Breaking the silence of the seas 在遥远的赫布利底群岛Among the farthest Hebrides. 打破过大海的寂寥。Will no one tell me what she sings?- 她唱什么，谁能告诉我？Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow 忧伤的音符不断流涌，For old, unhappy, far-off things, 是把遥远的不聿诉说？And battles long ago: 是把古代的战争吟咏？Or is it some more humble lay, 也许她的歌比较卑谦Familiar matter of to-day? 只是唱今日平凡的悲欢Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 只是唱自然的哀伤苦痛That has been, and may be again? 昨天经受过，明天又将重逢？Whateer the t