文体学分析Because-I-could-not-stop-for-death-a(课堂PPT).ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Because I could not stop for Death,Emily Dickinson,1,Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me,The Carriage held but just Ourselves,And Immortality.,We slowly drove He knew no haste,And I had put away,My labor and my leisure too,For his Civility,Because I could not stop for Death,Because I could not stop for Death,2,We passed the School,where Children strove,At Recess in the Ring,We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain,We passed the Setting Sun,Or rather He passed Us,The Dews drew quivering and chill,For only Gossamer,my Gown,My Tippet only Tulle,Because I could not stop for Death,3,We paused before a House that seemed,A Swelling of the Ground,The Roof was scarcely visible,The Cornice in the Ground,Since then tis Centuries and yet,Feels shorter than the Day,I first surmised the Horses Heads,Were toward Eternity,Because I could not stop for Death,4,one of the most famous women poets in America,She began writing poetry at the age of 20,but most of her early poem has been lost.,Emily Dickinsons interest in death was remarkable,leaving more than 500 poems on the subject of the death.,Many of her poems were half rhymes.,Introduction of the poet,Emily Dickinson,5,one of the most significant poem of Emily Dickinson in terms of the subject of death,one of Emily Dickinsons most famous works.,free and easy,showed us Emilys meditation about death,exploration to life and desire for eternity.,Introduction of the poem,Because I could not stop for Death,6,Dickinson describes“Death”as a gentleman driving a carriage,who is endowed with favorable human attributes of being kind.And“Immortality”is also a passenger in the carriage.,The carriage trundles along at a pretty relaxed pace.Being content with Deaths politeness&charm,the woman is distracted from her work and felt completely at ease with the gentleman.,Dickinson is painting a scene of what they are riding by:the School,the Fields of Gazing Grains&the Setting Sun,which respectively symbolizes her early life,the middle stage of life&the final stage of life.,With the sun going down,the dew is setting in.Not warmly wearing,she is getting chilly.She is restating that the phases of her life have passed her by.,Dickinson describes grave as a House.Such description indicates that the poet is quite comfortable or at ease with the location.,Though centuries have passed,the poet still feels it just happened yesterday.With reference of the Horses Heads,we readers will be reminded of the vision mentioned in the 1,st,stanza.,Content,7,Analysis of the poem,8,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,9,Irregular Stanza Rhyme,1th&2nd&3rd stanzas,5th&6th stanzas,1,st,&3,rd,lines,8,syllables,2,nd,&4,th,lines,6,syllables,1,st,&3,rd,lines,8,syllables,2,nd,&4,th,lines,6,syllables,Poets feeling towards Death changes,the mood of the poem,changes,4th stanza,change,Hymn-like meter,Slant Rhyme,&,Phonological Level,10,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,The whole poem with four feet iambic and three feet iambic appears an alternate layout,and the rhyme is not strict.This“not in strict”rhyme,contrasting to the traditional model of the rhythm of poetry creation,reflects Dickinsons creative rebellion and modernity.,Phonological Level,11,third,unstressed,unstressed,second,stressed,Each Line,The first,syllable,fourth,stressed,Example:,.1.2.3.4,Be CAUSE|I COULD|not STOP|for DEATH,.1.2.3,He KIND|ly STOPPED|for ME;,Phonological Level,12,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,B,e,cause I could not stop for Death,H,e,kindl,y,stopped for m,e,Th,e,Carriage h,el,d but just Ours,el,ves,And Immortality.,Phonological Level,e,y(the end):Off-rhyme,e(the beginning):alliteration,el:internal rhyme,13,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,The rich use of the poem rhyme is abound of changes,increasing the beauty of the musicality of poetry to read catchy,adding the language of poetry appreciation value and giving the reader a unique aesthetic temperament and interest.,Phonological Level,14,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,At the Graphological Level,15,Unothordox Use of Punctuation,20 dashes(instead of a comma or a period),sense the poets complicated thoughts writhing in her brain,pause the poem and leave space to think over and to go on,Functions,attract the readers attention to the poets way to Eternity,Were toward Eternity,imply that the poem is never ending,just as eternity is never ending,Graphological Level,16,Unusual Capitalization,Capitalized,Words,D,eath,H,e,W,e,U,s,O,urselves,I,mmortality,H,is,C,ivility,S,etting,S,un,E,ternity,etc.,concerning about the theme,:,Death,&,Immortality,They will certainly stand out,slow the readers down a little,making us pause to consider the word rather than breezing through the poem;,Graphological Level,17,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,At the Lexical Level,18,Flexible Use of Lexicons,simple&plain words,more solemn&serious words,.,labor,leisure,School,Grain,Sun,Immortality,Civility,Eternity,describe the world of living,describe Death&Immortality,Immortality,Eternity,(1,st,stanza,last line),(last stanza,last line),The arrival of Death is not unpleasant;Death means Eternity,Lexical Level,19,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,At the Grammatical Level,20,Faulty Grammar,omit the predicate,Or ratherHe passed Us,The Dews drew quivering and chill,For only Gossamer,my Gown,My Tippetonly Tulle,For my Gown,was,only Gossamer,my Tippet,was,only Tulle,change the order of the Predicative and Subject,imply the arrival of the Death makes the atmosphere chilly and cold,With the coming of the Death,fear and unease befall the poet.,the poets temporal existence merges with the spiritual universe,Grammatical Level,21,At the Phonological Level,At the Phonological Level,At the Semantic Level,22,Metaphor,Alliteration,Imagism,Personification,Anaphora,Figurative Speech,23,Personification,He,kindly,stopped for me,He,slowly,droveHe knew no haste,For His,Civility,Death,Immortality,a gentleman with favorable characteristics:,kind,&,polite,Death is a thing not to be afraid of but to embrace.,The Carriage held but just Ourselves,And Immortality.,a third passenger in the carriage,Death in body walks along with Immortality in mind.,Death,not the end,but as a step on the way to eternal life,24,Alliteration,l,abor&,l,eisure,R,ecess&,R,ing,G,azing&,G,rain,S,etting&,S,un,D,ews&,d,rew,G,ossamer&,G,own,T,ippet&,T,ulle,H,orse&,H,ead,We passed the School,where Children strove,At,R,ecessin the,R,ing,We passed the Fields of,G,azing,G,rain,We passed the,S,etting,S,un,depict a continuity of scenes,thereby emphasizing the notion of never-endingness.,25,Metaphor,works as a process to review dying memories,&displays a lifelong journey one would experience,implies the passage of birth,growth,maturity&death,the carriage ride the cycle of life,life is a journey,the Children young ages,the Gazing Grain productive years of ones life,the Setting Sun the end of the day,the end of life,a House a grave,implies that the poet feels comfortable about the Death,26,Anaphora,the speaker is passing through everything that she has already lived through.,giving the readers a sense of life going by,We passed,the School,where Children strove,At Recessin the Ring,We passed,the Fields of Gazing Grain,We passed,the Setting Sun,work to mimic the slow progression of the carriage.,We readers can almost hear the echo clomping of the horse,thus,feeling part of the journey instead of just being outside observers.,27,Imagism,I first surmised,the Horses Heads,Were toward Eternity,the last image before her death,remind the readers of the carriage mentioned at the start of the poem,It seems to turn back the time to the beginning.,life is a recycling process;death is the beginning of another journey of life.,the carriage ride,the School,the Fields of Gazing Grains,the Setting Sun,a Swelling of the Ground,etc.,28,death,death is nothing to be feared since it is a natural part of the endless cycle of nature.,death is only the beginning,because to die is to go on another journey.,Although,death takes one away from the earthly world,there is still something to look forward to when one dies:Eternal life.,Immortality,death means eternity.,Theme,29,