英国文学史英国浪漫主义作家 William Blake.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,*,The Romantic Period,Neoclassicism:reason,order,accuracy and elegant wit,Romanticism:passion,emotion,and natural beauty,The romantic period is an age of poetry.,Blake,Burns,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelly,and Keats,are the major romantic poets.,Imagination is the vital faculty that creates new wholes out of disparate elements.,It is in solitude,in communion with the natural universe that man can exercise this most valuable faculty.,This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity;it is the divine bosom.,Where intelligence was fallible,limited,the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces,with the whole spiritual world.,Nature comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination.,Wordsworth is the closest to nature,He conceives nature as“the nurse,/the guide,/The guardian of my heart,and soul/Of all my moral being”,Poetry should be free from all rules,They turned to the humble people and the common everyday life for subjects.,Wordsworth defines the poet as“a man speaking to men”,and poetry as“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”,To escape from a world that had become excessively rational,materialistic and ugly,the Romantics would turn to other times and places.,Wordsworth,Coleridge and Southey chose to live by the lakeside so as to escape from the“madding crowd”;Byron and Shelley rejected the entire English society by their self-imposed exile.,In order to achieve the effect of the individual vision,they would turn to the medieval or renaissance,or the mysterious east or even the supernatural for poetic resources and inspiration.,William Blake,To see a World in a grain of sand,And a Heaven in a wild flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,And Eternity in an hour.,一沙见世界，,一花窥天堂。,掌中握无限，,须臾纳永恒。,Major Works,1.,Poetical Sketches,A collection of youthful verse,/,Joy,Laughter,love and harmony are the prevailing notes,2.,Songs of Innocence,Presenting a happy and innocent world with a delightful tone,3.Songs of Experience,Presenting a world of misery,poverty,disease,war and repression with a melancholy tone,Questions for Discussion,1.Make a Comparison between,Songs of Innocence,and,Songs of Experience.,Language/tone/theme,2.Make a tentative Interpretation of the following poem:,FROM,Songs of Innocence,INTRODUCTION,Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:,“Pipe a song about a Lamb!”,So I piped with a merry,chear,.,“Piper,pipe that song again”;,So I piped:he wept to hear.,“,Drop thy pipe,thy happy pipe;,Sing thy songs of happy,chear,”:,So I sung the same again,While he wept with joy to hear.,“Piper,sit thee down and write,In a book,that all may read.”,So he,vanishd,from my sight,And I,pluckd,a hollow reed,And I made a rural pen,And I,staind,the water clear,And I wrote my happy songs,Every child may joy to hear.,London,I wander thro each,charterd,street,Near where the,charterd,Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness,marks of woe.,In every cry of every Man,In every infants cry of fear,In every voice,in every ban,The mind-,forgd,manacles I hear.,How the chimney-sweepers cry,Every,blackning,Church appalls;,And the hapless Soldiers sigh,Runs in blood down Palace walls.,But most thro midnight streets I hear,How the youthful Harlots curse,Blasts the new born Infants tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.,My Pretty Rose Tree,A Flower was offered to me;,Such a flower as May never bore,But I said,“Ive a Pretty Rose-tree,”,And I passes the sweet flower oer.,Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree,To tend her by day and by night.,But my Rose turned away with jealousy,And her thorns were my only delights.,Loves secret,Never seek to tell thy love,Love that never told can be;,For the gentle wind does move,Silently,invisibly.,I told my love,I told my love,I told her all my heart,Trembling,cold,in ghastly fear,Ah,she doth depart.,Soon as she was gone from me,A,traveller,came by,Silently,invisibly,He took her with a sigh./O,was no deny.,Thank You for Your Attendance,