美国文学简史

一名词解释

1. 殖民地时期的美洲 The colonial period of America

2. 压头韵 Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.

3. 自传 Autobiography: A person’s account of his or her own life. An autobiography is generally

written in narrative form and includes some introspection.

4. 戏剧独白 Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to

one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subject of the poem.

5. 挽歌 Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is a type

of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.

二回答问题

1.《了不起的盖茨比》The Great Gatsby *作者Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the

2.自我诗歌的《草叶集》的分析Whitman’s self, which consists of three layers—the Individual Self, the American self and the universal self, is of indispensable importance in his poetry. These three aspects of the self form a complete and integrated whole and cannot be separated form each other. Each has its own peculiarities, sometimes contradictory and sometimes complementary. They together constitute the complete Self of Whitman in Leaves of Grass. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. The poet’s essential purpose was to identify his ego with the world, and more specifically with the democratic “en-masse” of America, which is established in the opening lines of “Song of Myself.” As Whitman saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. In celebrating the self, Whitman gives emphasis to the physical dimension of the self and openly and joyously celebrates sexuality. Whitman’s poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic “I”. “Song of Myself”-àIn this poem Whitman sets forth two principal belief: the theory of universality, and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.

3.我不能停止死亡的象征意义in the poem, life is just like “a recycling process” and death keeps coming upon human. But one is for sure, that “life is towards eternity”.

As a 19th-century women poet, Emily Dickinson is unique in ideas and unconventional in her way of writing. Full of images, she leads us to the unknown world of death. She pictures the scene when walking towards death and showers us with immortality in soul, which shows her unprecedented deep research for death

一名词解释

1. 殖民地时期的美洲 The colonial period of America

2. 压头韵 Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.

3. 自传 Autobiography: A person’s account of his or her own life. An autobiography is generally

written in narrative form and includes some introspection.

4. 戏剧独白 Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to

one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subject of the poem.

5. 挽歌 Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is a type

of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.

二回答问题

1.《了不起的盖茨比》The Great Gatsby *作者Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the

2.自我诗歌的《草叶集》的分析Whitman’s self, which consists of three layers—the Individual Self, the American self and the universal self, is of indispensable importance in his poetry. These three aspects of the self form a complete and integrated whole and cannot be separated form each other. Each has its own peculiarities, sometimes contradictory and sometimes complementary. They together constitute the complete Self of Whitman in Leaves of Grass. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. The poet’s essential purpose was to identify his ego with the world, and more specifically with the democratic “en-masse” of America, which is established in the opening lines of “Song of Myself.” As Whitman saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. In celebrating the self, Whitman gives emphasis to the physical dimension of the self and openly and joyously celebrates sexuality. Whitman’s poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic “I”. “Song of Myself”-àIn this poem Whitman sets forth two principal belief: the theory of universality, and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.

3.我不能停止死亡的象征意义in the poem, life is just like “a recycling process” and death keeps coming upon human. But one is for sure, that “life is towards eternity”.

As a 19th-century women poet, Emily Dickinson is unique in ideas and unconventional in her way of writing. Full of images, she leads us to the unknown world of death. She pictures the scene when walking towards death and showers us with immortality in soul, which shows her unprecedented deep research for death


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