WaltWhitman(美国文学史).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,*,Walt Whitman,Walter Whitman,Born on May 31,1819,in Long Island,Die on March 26,1892,An,American,poet,essayist,journalist,and,humanist,.,Whitman is often called the father of,free verse.,Introduction,Brought up in a family on Long Island,New York.,Largely self-taught.He,had little education,but read works of Shakespeare,Milton and Emerson.,In 1836,at the age of 17,he began his career as teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island.He continued to teach until 1841,when he turned to journalism as a full-time career.,Worked,as an office boy,a printers apprentice,schoolmaster,printer,and editor.,In the fall of 1848,he founded a free soil newspaper,the Brooklyn Freeman,and continued to develop the unique style of poetry.,Introduction,In,1855,published the first edition of,Leaves of Grass,marking the birth of truly American poetry,not well received by the general public because of its sexuality and exotic and vulgar language,but appreciated by Emerson.,During,the Civil War,worked as a volunteer nurse,an experience which further enriched his knowledge of life and the world.,After his death on March 26,1892,Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.,Introduction,Leaves of Grass,草叶集,Walt Whitmans major work,Leaves of Grass,is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman.,12 poems in the first version in 1855,401 poems in the dying version in 1891 and 1892,Poems:,“,Song of Myself I Sing the Body Electric,When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd,.“,Whitman spent his entire life writing,Leaves of Grass,revising it in several editions until his death,.,Walt Whitmans major work,“,Leaves of Grass,”recorded how Whitman think and quest during his life,reflected how the age and the country looked like at that time.,This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,This the common air that bathes the globe.,Song of Myself,哪里有土，哪里有水，哪里就长着草,Walt Whitmans major work,Grass is the most ordinary and most viable living creature,signifying the flouring America at that time.,“,Leaves of Grass”,a gorgeous mile-stone of American poem history,exalted(,歌颂,),the body and the material world,the nature and the individual humans role to praised the America-an earth full of democracy,during the raised period of capitalism,Walt Whitmans major work,Whitmans,Themes,Transcendent power of love,brotherhood,and comradeship,Imaginative projection into others lives,Optimistic faith in democracy and equality,Belief in regenerative and illustrative powers of nature and its value as a teacher,Equivalence of body and soul and the unabashed exaltation of the body and sexuality,Influence,Walt Whitman has been claimed as,Americas first poet of democracy.,A British friend of Walt Whitman,Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe,wrote:,You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman,without Leaves of Grass.He has expressed that civilization,up to date,as he would say,and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him,.,Andrew Carnegie(,卡内基）,called,him,the great poet of America so far,.,Influence,Thank you,style:“free verse”,-no fixed rhyme or scheme,parallelism,a rhythm of thought,phonetic recurrence,the habit of using snapshots(,快照,),the use of a certain pronoun“I”,a looser and more open-ended syntactic structure,use of conventional image,strong tendency to use oral English,vocabulary powerful,colourful,rarely-used words of foreign origins,some even wrong,-sentences catalogue technique:long list of names,long poem lines,