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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,*,.,*,FOGby Carl Sandburg,1,.,Carl Sandburg,2,.,LIFE,American poet,1878-1967,Son of Swedish immigrants who settled in Illinois,Irregular schooling,Jack-of-all-trades,Columnist,editorial writer,feature writer,3,.,MASTERPIECES,Four volumes:,Chicago Poems(1914),Cornhuskers(1918),Smoke and Steel(1920),Slabs of the Sunburnt West(1922),Cover various fields:American life,encompassing prairie,eastern,and western landscapes as well as vignettes of the modern city,etc.,Prose:,Abraham Lincoln,Prairie Years,The War Years,Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940,4,.,Style,regular stanza pattern,traditional blank verse,utterly free verse,developing Whitmans long line but moderating its rhetorical impact and intensity,5,.,Appreciation of the poem,6,.,Fog,雾,Carl Sandburg,卡尔,桑德堡,The fog comes,雾来了,,on little cat feet,踮着猫的细步。,It sits looking,他弓起腰蹲着,,over harbor and city,静静地俯视,on silent haunches,海港和城市,,and then moves on,又再往前走。,(赵毅衡译),7,.,1,Simile,2,Image,3,Musicality,8,.,Simile,Why cat?,They have many things in common,1,Invisibility(come out of no where and suddenly disappear),2,Motion(crawling,creeping),3,Mobility(move fast and quick),4,Mystery,9,.,10,.,Image,Dimmed,vague image,1,No car,building,port,ship,2,Day or night?,3,How long did it last?How did it go?What was the image when the fog fade?,11,.,Relate to poets background,Spent most of his life in mid-west America(never been to metropolis until Chicago),Vague image of metropolis,12,.,Musicality,2 stanzas(2 lines of the first stanza,4 lines of the second stanza),“cat”,“feet”-rhyme(,尾韵),“little”,“sit”,“city”,13,.,Theme,14,.,In the 20th century,with the development of industrial revolution,people feel lonely and depressed in the materialistic world.,Peom symbolizes the rapid change in modern society and mystery in big cities as well as the desolation in western society.,city mystery and desolation,15,.,Life,The fog represents the problems that one can have something in their life.,Perhaps the problem can creep up on your silently like a cat,linger in your life and on your mind and then move on when it feels like it.You can not control it,just like the weather.,16,.,Man and nature,The poet personifies the fog to stress the feeling of threat.The fact that the fog sits“looking over the harbour and city”is quiet frightening as it emphasizing mans weakness to the elment of nature.,Man has no control over the weather.Nature is beautiful but at times can be so cruel.,17,.,Thanks for listening,18,.,
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