Edgar Allan Poe副本

1、Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)The actual cause of death remains a mystery.lTuberculosislsuicidelheart diseaseldruglmeningeal inflammationlCholeralrabiesII. Life Poes Childhood 1lHis father, an actorlHis mother, Elizabeth Arnold, an actress lPoes parents were touring actors; A year after Edgars birth (1

2、809) and several months before the birth of his sister Rosalie, the father disappearedlHis mother died in December, 1811Poes Childhood 2lPoe was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond and baptized Edgar Allan Poe.lHis brother and sister were also adopted by the two well

3、-to-do Richmond ladies who had befriended the motherPoes Foster Family 1lNever legally adopted by the Allan but brought up as their son and presumed heir.lSent to good schools, Poe showed aptitude for languages and began writing verse.Poes Foster Family 2lPoes relation with the Allans was unhappy.l1

4、826 John Allan was a well-to-do hardheaded Scots merchant who had great prospects of wealth from the estate of his unclelEdgar was entered in the University of VirginialRan into debt and started borrowing money, gambling and getting deeper into debtPoes Foster Family 3lAllan withdrew him from Univer

5、sity lWent to Boston, enlisted in the army, served for two years and went to West PointlAfter one year he decided to leave West Point and to support himself by writing.Poes Need for a Family lHe worked as editor and writer most of his life, but he was always poor. Poe married his 13-year-old cousin

6、in 1835 when he was 26. lPoe married his 13-year old cousin, Virginia Clemm. Her early death may have inspired some of his writing. Poes last few yearslVirginia died in 1847, w h i c h l e f t h i m inconsolable.lDeep drinking problems lHe died, in mysterious circumstances, in 1849. He was only 40 t

7、hen. lEdgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. The circumstances and cause of his death remain uncertain. Short Storyl2. FeatureslGothic elementsldeep analysis of human psychologylprecursor of detective stories and science storieslstyle: ordinary, traditional3. Sample: The Fall of the House

8、 of UsherCharacteristics of Poes detective storieslPoe places veiled clues before the reader.lThe writer/narrator strives to appear objective.Poe would have liked to solve everything by the mind.He was disturbed by what he could not solve by reason.lThe climax of the story is the narrators explanati

9、on of the crime.Elements of Gothic in Poes FictionlGrim setting【陰郁的設(shè)置】Landscapes are often reflections of characters mind.Unusual buildings, extremes of nature, eccentric works of artVery few of his stories take place in America; most take place in Europe.Themes 1. death predominant theme2. horror“P

10、oe is not interested in anything alive. Everything in Poes writings is dead.” 3.negative thoughts of scienceWorkslTales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque 奇異怪誕故事集lMS. Found in a Bottle 瓶子里發(fā)現(xiàn)的手稿lThe Murders in the Rue Morgue 莫格街殺人案lThe Fall of the House of Usher 厄舍古屋的倒塌lThe Masque of the Red Death 紅色

11、死亡的化妝舞會(huì)lThe Cask of Amontillado 一桶酒的故事lThe Raven 烏鴉lIsrafel 伊斯拉菲爾lAnnabel Lee 安娜貝爾李lTo Helen 致海倫 lThe Poetic Principle 詩(shī)歌原理 lThe Philosophy of Composition 創(chuàng)作哲學(xué)To HelenlThe 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. the first purely ideal love of my soul, acc

12、ording to the poet.lPoe is celebrating the nurturing power of womanAnalysislthe use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty lrhythm is not regular, which shows the poet was excitedlthe poem is a haunting melody done with extreme artistry of alliteration as in weary“ and way-worn,

13、and assonance for example, with me“ rhythm with sea,Analysislin the poem words containing vowels【單元音】 or diphthongs【雙元音】 were used to bring about the slow rhythm which reveals the speakers admiration and deep regret and suggest a theme that beauty is soothing yet inaccessible.lgeneral tone of the po

14、em is passionate and regretful.To Helen 2lPoe uses allusions to classical names and places, as well as certain kinds of images to create the impression of a far-off idealized, unreal woman, like a Greek statue. words that support the image of an ideal woman are hyacinth“ and classic“ Naiad airs“ and

15、 statue-like. Helen stands, not like a real woman, but like a saint in a windows-niche. She becomes a symbol both of beauty and of frustration, a romantically idealized yet inaccessible image of the hearts desire. Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, oer a perfumed

16、sea, The weary, way worn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome.Lo! in yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The ag

17、ate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy Land! 海倫，你的美在我的眼里，有如往日尼西亞的三桅船船行在飄香的海上，悠悠地把已倦于漂泊的困乏船員送回他故鄉(xiāng)的海岸。早已習(xí)慣于在怒海上飄蕩，你典雅的臉龐，你的鬈發(fā)，你水神般的風(fēng)姿帶我返航，返回那往時(shí)的希臘和羅馬，返回那往時(shí)的壯麗和輝煌?？茨?！壁龕似的明亮窗戶里，我看見(jiàn)你站著，多像尊雕像，一盞瑪瑙的燈你拿在手上！塞姬女神哪，神圣的土地才是你家鄉(xiāng)！“The Fall of the House of Usher”lAnalysisl“The Fall of t

18、he House of Usher” possesses the 【典型的】quintessential -features of the Gothic tale: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. Introductiona villain with no virtue an evil genius Emerson: the jingle man” Whitman: “its narrow range and unhealthy, lurid quality” (不豐富的選材和不健康、可怕的質(zhì)量)He was understood by critics and other writers in America.Introduction Poe enjoyed r