美國文學Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow朗費羅ppt課件

1、Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,1807-1882,朗費羅,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Life Works Evaluation The Secret of the Sea,Life,Longfellow was born in Maine. One of his grandfathers was a state Senator and the other grandfather had been a Revolutionary War general and a Congressman. Following his graduation in

2、 1826 from Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow went to Europe to study. When he returned to the United States three years later, he taught European languages, first at Bowdoin and then at Harvard. After 18 years of teaching at Harvard, he resigned his positio

3、n because he felt it interfered with his writing,During his lifetime, 19th-century writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ranked as one of the most popular American poets. While Longfellows contemporaries praised his poetry for its clarity and simplicity, many modern critics fault his lines for their lac

4、k of originality. One of Longfellows most lasting contributions, however, may have been the role he played in popularizing poetry in America,Works,Voices of the Night 1839 夜籟集 Ballads and Other Poems 1841歌謠及其他 Evangeline 1847伊凡吉林 Hiawatha海華沙之歌 Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863, 1872, 1873路邊酒肆的故事 Belfry of

5、 Bruges and Other Poems1845布魯茨的鐘樓及其他 “A Psalm of Life” 1838人生禮贊,Evaluation,During the last years of his life, Longfellow received many honors, including honorary degrees from Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England. After his death, a bust of Longfellow was placed in the Poets Corner of Westmin

6、ster Abbeythe first American to be so honored. In the late 19th century, Longfellow was without a doubt the most popular American poet,Before death,Cambridge and Oxford,2.Invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria,3.Called by request upon the Prince of Wales,4.Breakfasting with British Prime Minister,5.El

7、ected member of Russian Academy and of,6.75th birthday celebrated by the nation,Spanish Academy,1.Receiving honorary degrees from,After death,After his death, he became the only American to be honored with a bust(半身像） in the poets corner of Westminster Abbey,Longfellow became a great teacher of the

8、masses. If his worst fault is that he made poetry seem so easy to write that anyone could do it, his greatest virtue is that he made poetry seem worth reading and worth writing,Style of his poetry,Style,purity,Directness,sweetness,Simplicity,gentleness,musicality,sentimentality,moralization,from all

9、 walks of life,idealized vision of world and life,traditional,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is noted as the most popular American poet of the nineteenth century. His poetry and narrative works are lyrical with an easy rhythm, making them memorable. Uplifting with to

10、pics the every man can relate to, Longfellows poetry hums in peoples minds like a favorite song,There are two reasons for the popularity and significance of Longfellows poetry. First, he had the gift of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural grace and melody. Read or heard once or

11、 twice, his rhyme and meters cling to the mind long after the sense may be forgotten,Second, Longfellow wrote on obvious themes which appeal to all kinds of people. His poems are easily understood; they sing their way into the consciousness of those who read them. Above all, there is a joyousness in

12、 them, a spirit of optimism and faith in the goodness of life which evokes immediate response in the emotions of his readers,Americans owe a great debt to Longfellow because he was among the first of American writers to use native themes. He wrote about the American scene and landscape, the American

13、 Indian (Song of Hiawatha), and American history and tradition (The Courtship of Miles Standish, Evangeline). At the beginning of the 19th century, America was a stumbling babe as far as a culture of its own was concerned. The people of America had spent their years and their energies in carving a h

14、abitation out of the wilderness and in fighting for independence. Literature, art, and music came mainly from Europe and especially from England. Nothing was considered worthy of attention unless it came from Europe,But the flowering of New England, as Van Wyck Brooks terms the period from 1815 to 1

15、865, took place in Longfellows day, and he made a great contribution to it. He lived when giants walked the New England earth, giants of intellect and feeling who established the New Land as a source of greatness. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes,

16、and William Prescott were a few of the great minds and spirits among whom Longfellow took his place as a singer and as a representative of America,Was he a great poet? He was certainly a grand poet, and in the public mind the grandest of his day and age. No American poet of any era, its safe to say,

17、 has been both as awesomely prolific and prodigiously popular. If Walt Whitman, his younger contemporary by a dozen years, is enshrined as the founding father of modern American poetry, Longfellow deserves no less than to be remembered as the native bard who gave mythic dimension to the countrys his

18、torical imagination, a national poet of epic sweep and solemn feeling who came along right at the moment when the emerging nation had the most need for one,Conclusion,大海的奧秘,美亨利沃茲沃思朗費羅作/李正平譯,??！我有一種多麼美妙的幻覺， 每當我極目凝望海洋， 所有昔日的浪漫傳奇和我的夢境， 都又重新回到我的心房。 絲綢錦帆和薄絹纜繩， 象古代傳說一樣閃爍發(fā)光； 那些水手們引吭高歌， 傳來回聲在岸邊飄蕩,尤其是那首西班牙民歌，

19、 常常激起我的聯(lián)翩遐想， 那是關(guān)于高貴的阿納多斯伯爵 和那個水手的神秘的歌唱。 象浩淼的波濤席卷了海灘， 沙礫在水中泛著銀光， 伴隨那輕柔而單調(diào)的節(jié)奏， 流動著無韻的抒情詩行,它描述了阿納多斯伯爵， 他的雄鷹棲落在他的手上， 他看見一艘富麗堂皇的船只， 正朝往陸地駛向前方； 還描述他聽見那位年邁的舵手 唱的歌粗獷而又嘹亮， 隨航的海鳥聽了也斂翅垂翼 在桅檣上空盤旋翱翔,他不知不覺內(nèi)心充滿了渴望， 突然大聲疾呼，情緒激昂， “也教我學唱這首奇妙的歌吧 舵手，看在上蒼的份上！” “你也想了解大海的秘密？” 舵手的回答就是這樣， “想要掌握海洋奧秘的人， 只有敢于冒險去劈風斬浪。,每當有帆影掠過天涯

20、海角， 每當海風撲面微微輕揚， 我都能看見那艘堂皇的船只， 也聽見那些曲調(diào)蒼莽悲涼。 不知不覺我內(nèi)心也滿懷渴望 想要了解奧秘而探索海洋， 那汪洋大海跳動的心臟 使我心潮起伏，激情回蕩,Hymn to the Night黑夜贊歌,I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! 黑夜拖曳著衣裾， 掃過她大理石的殿堂! 來自天幕的光, 將她黑裙的邊繡成穗狀,I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop oer me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love 我感到她的出現(xiàn),因她符咒般的力量, 從天空俯于我身上。 黑夜降臨,平靜而端莊, 一如我鐘愛的姑娘,I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Ni