《英美诗歌鉴赏课件》Carl-Sandburg2

1、 Carl Sandburg卡尔桑德堡(1878一 1967)Carl Sandburg (1878一 1967)Carl Sandburgs HouseCarl Sandburg (1878一 1967)American modern poet and biographical writerBenefit from his humble personal backgrounds and rich experienceWrite plain poems for plain people “为朴素的人民写朴素的诗”To be sound of the people 成为“人民的声音”Contri

2、bution to colloquial style of American literaturebe awarded the American Poetry Society prize in 1919 and 1920be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems in 1950 Carl Sandburgs Life Storyson of Swedish immigrantsFather, blacksmithmarried in 1908lived to enjoy the enormous popular acclaim a

3、family figure to national television audiences Carl Sandburgs Life StoryEducationWorking experiencesirregular schooling;Lombard College, without a degreeitinerant laborer流动工人correspondent in the Spanish-American Waradvertising writerroving reporter流动记者organizer for the Social Democratic partysecreta

4、ry to the mayor of Milwaukeea columnist,editorial writer, feature(专题文章) writer on the Chicago Daily NewsCarl Sandburgs Major WorksChicago Poems芝加哥诗集Cornhuskers剥玉米壳的人Smoke and Steel烟与铁Stabs of the Sunburn West 太阳烧灼的西方石板Carl Sandburgs Major WorksGood Morning, America 早安,美国The People, Yes 人民,是的The Amer

5、ican Song bag 美国歌谣集The War Years 战争年月 Carl Sandburgs Famous PoemsChicagoThe HarborFogGrassChicago你为这世界杀猪，制造工具，存储小麦，你是铁路运输家，代办全国货运你暴躁，魁梧，喧闹，你这长着宽肩膀的城市。 人家告诉我你太卑劣，我相信；我看到你的女人浓妆艳抹在煤气灯下勾引乡下小伙。人家告诉我你太邪恶，我回答：是的，的确我见到歹徒屠杀了人逍遥法外又去行凶。人家告诉我你太残酷，我回答：是，在妇女和孩子脸上我见到饥饿肆虐的烙印。我这样回答后，转过身，对那些嘲笑我的城市的的人，我回敬以嘲笑，我说，来呀，给我看

6、别的城市，也这样昂起头，骄傲的唱歌，也这样活泼，粗犷，强壮，机灵。工作堆成山时，嘴里咒骂不停，在那些矮小孱弱的城市中间，他是个高大的拳击手。凶狠如一条狗，舌头伸出准备进攻，机械有如跟莽原搏斗的野蛮人：光着头，挥着锹，毁灭，计划，建造，破坏，再建造，在浓烟下，满嘴的灰，露出白牙齿大笑，在命运可怕的重负下，像个青年人一样大笑大笑，像个从未输过一场的鲁莽斗士，自夸，大笑，他腕下脉搏在跳，肋骨下人民的心在跳，大笑！笑出年轻人的暴躁，魁伟，喧闹的笑，赤着上身，汗流浃背，他骄傲，因为他是杀猪的屠夫，工具箱，小麦存储着，铁路运输家，全国货物的转运人。Comment The poem presents a s

7、triking and impressive description of the vigor and vitality of Chicago primarily by means of personification, images and metaphor.In the first five lines, Chicago is compared to hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, Players with railroads, the National Freight Handler and the Big Shoulders, al

8、l of whom are powerful and vigorous. By using this metaphor. The poet highlights the vigor of Chicago. In the next 13 lines, the poet agrees that Chicago is wicked, crooked and brutal in a straightforward way by assuming a talk between the poet and the personified city, but he goes on to develop the

9、 theme of the poem by stating that Chicago is alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Then in the last 21 lines, the poet delineates the images of a tall bold slugger, a dog lapping for actions and a savage pitted against the wilderness. They are all incarnations of power, strength, vitality and ac

10、tion. So, the use of these images further emphasizes the vigor of Chicago. It merits notice that the poet conforms the language style of the conveyance of the theme. One eye-catching characteristic of the poem is that verbs take up a very high proportion and therefore create in the readers mind a se

11、nse of mobility and vitality. Moreover, the varied syntactic pattern and changeable rhythm also reveal the mobility, energy, and vigor of ChicagoCarl Sandburgs poem Chicago defends the city against dark accusations of prostitution, poverty, and exploitation of the working class. In the end, he sugge

12、sts that such accusations plague any large city, and he asserts that Under the terrible burden of destiny, Chicago laughs as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the he

13、art of the people. Thus, he asserts that the spirit of the city not only survives, but thrives in spite of its dark underbelly, and perhaps even has more character because of it. SummarySandburgs most cherished ideal in life was to be “the world of the people.” He articulates in song the thoughts, f

14、eeling, and aspirations of ordinary men and women.As a poet, he was associated with imagists.He was possibly the only great poet who wrote in the Whitmanesque tradition in the 20th century.He was confident in the belief that the people will one day rise and come into their own, therefore he was optimistic.He was a socialist. FogSmogOn the towering skyscraper, a wingless ghost perches.Miserable we write on the paper,for