廣外英語文學欣賞U1（課堂PPT）

1、.1Unit one Identity.2OutlinevIm Nobody! Who are you? (by Emily Dickinson)vTheme for English B (by Langston Hughes)vLiterary Focus.3Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin(高更）. 1897.4Emily Dickinson (1830 -1886).5va recluse in Amherst “美國隱士女詩人”vshe was delighted in solit

2、ude.(孤獨是迷人的）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 ).6Im Nobody! Who are you?vIm Nobody! Who are you?vAre you Nob

3、ody Too?vThen theres a pair of us!vDont tell! Theyd banish us (advertise) you know!.7vHow dreary to be Somebody!vHow public like a Frog vTo tell ones name the livelong June vTo an admiring Bog!.8v我是無名人物！你是誰？v你也是無名人物？v那么我們倆就是一雙！但別聲張！v你知道嗎，他們容不下我們倆！v做個名人多么無聊！v像只招搖的青蛙v向著仰慕它的池沼v在漫長的六月里自吹自擂我是無名人物！你是誰？迪金森

4、.9Questionsv1. What 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?.10v5.What does “an admiring bog” refer to? How to understand the word “admiring”?v6. What is like to be “somebody”? Do you

5、want to be “nobody” or “somebody”? Explain.v7. What is the function of dashes?.11Terms in “Theme for English B”vHarlem美國紐約市的黑人居住區(qū)vBessie黑人女歌手;布魯斯vBop (bebop)博普爵士樂vBach巴赫.12Questionsv1. Who does “I” refer to?v2. What is special of this speaker in his class? What does it imply?v3. Why to the speaker “

6、 Its not easy to know what 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.”?.13v5. 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

7、 poet pose in the poem?.14I, I, 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 Hughes.15Tomorrow,Ill be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobodyll dareSay to me,Eat in the kitchen,Then

8、.Besides,Theyll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed-I, too, am America. .16http:/ 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.18Literary Focus (Page 15)vImage(意象) v- it is a concrete representation of an object or senso

9、ry experience./it is whatever appeals to 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”).19Literary Focus (Page 13)vWhat is Poetry? vPoetry might be defined, initially, as a kind of language that sa

10、ys more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language.v“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling, recollected in tranquility” (by William Wordsworth).20Literature 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.21Writing assignmentv“Who Am I?”.