美國文學(xué)-Anne-BradstreetPPT

1、1Part One Colonial LiteratureTypes of writing: diaries, histories, letters, contracts, journals,sermons, etc.Content: serving for either God or colonial expansion2Features of Colonial Poets They were servants of God. They faithfully imitated and transplanted English literary traditions.In English st

2、ylePuritan poets3Anne Bradstreet1612 16724 Her life or experience5 Her father was a soldier and Mother was a lady of noble heritage. Both of them were well educated. she grew up in cultured circumstances Anne was well tutored in literature, history, Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and English and danc

3、e, etc. (8 tutors) She married a young man, her coworker, Simon Bradstreet, when she was 16 and he was 25 In 1630, sailed with family to New Continent by ship Arbella with the Capitan, Winthrop6 The colonists fight for survival had become daily routine, and the climate, lack of food, and primitive l

4、iving arrangements made it very difficult for Anne to adapt into new and difficult life Both her father and husband were governors of Massachusetts Bay Colony7 Despite her poor health, she had eight children, and loved them dearly. Simon eventually came to prosper in the new land, and for a while it

5、 seemed things would not be so bad Anne herself was frequently ill and survived to be 60 years old.89 Her works10 Because of the tendency of the Puritans to exile female intellectuals, Anne was hesitant to publish any of her poetry. Her brother took some of her early poems to England (legendarily ag

6、ainst her will) and published them as The Tenth Muse 希臘第十個謬斯Lately Sprung Up in America when she was 38. It sold very well. 11 Her Quotes Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes t

7、aste of adversity逆境, prosperity would not be so welcome.If what I do prove well, it wont advance,Theyll say its stolen, or else it was by chance.If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then theeI am obnoxious可憎的 to each carping (picky) tongueWho says my hand a needle be

8、tter fits12Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they areMen have precedence and still excel;It is but vain unjustly to wage war.Men can do best, and women know it well,Preeminence in all and each is yours;Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours13Her poems The Author To Her Book Before the Birth

9、of One of Her Children In Reference to Her Children A letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment To My Dear and Loving Husband To Her Father with Some Verses By Night When Others Soundly Slept The Flesh and the Spirit Verses Upon the Burning of Our House As Weary Pilgrims14To My Dear and L

10、oving Husband If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lovd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold.15To My Dear and Loving Husband My love is su

11、ch that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense Thy love is such I can no way repay, Then heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love lets so preserve That when we live no more, we may live ever. 16question What about the relationship between Bradstr

12、eet and her husband?17Poetic features : repetition Im not afraid to die. . . . Im not afraid to live. Im not afraid to fail. Im not afraid to succeed. Im not afraid to fall in love. Im not afraid to be alone. Im just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes18In memory of my

13、dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August, 1665.being a year and half old 1Farewel dear babe, my hearts too much content,Farewel sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,Farewel fair flower that for a space was lent,Then taen away unto Eternity.Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fa

14、te,Or sigh the dayes so soon were terminate;Sith thou art setled in an Everlasting state.19 2By nature Trees do rot when they are grown.And Plumbs and Apples throughly ripe do fall,And Corn and grass are in their season mown,And time brings down what is both strong and tall,But plants new set to be

15、eradicate,And buds new blown, to have so short a date,Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. 2021Upon the Burning of Our House In silent night when rest I tookFor sorrow near I did not lookI wakend was with thundring noiseAnd piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.That fearful sound of Fire! a

16、nd Fire!Let no man know is my desire.22 I, starting up, the light did spye,And to my God my heart did cryTo strengthen me in my distresse,And not to leave me succorlesse.Then coming out, beheld a spaceThe flame consume my dwelling place.23 And when I could no longer look,I blest His name that gave a

17、nd took,That laid my goods now in the dust.Yea, so it was, and so twas just.It was his own, it was not mine;Far be it that I should repine.24 DO you have any experience about the struggle between your soul and flesh? Who wins in their battle in Bradstreets The Flesh and the Spirit?25 What argument d

18、oes each sister make? Which argument is more convincing to you?26The flesh and the spirit In secret place where once I stoodClose by the banks of Lacrim flood,I heard two sisters reason onThings that are past and things to come.One Flesh was calld, who had her eyeOn worldly wealth and vanity;The oth

19、er Spirit, who did rearHer thoughts unto a higher sphere.Sister, quoth Flesh, what livst thou onNothing but Meditation?Doth Contemplation feed thee soRegardlessly to let earth go?27 Can Speculation satisfyNotion without Reality?Dost dream of things beyond the MoonAnd dost thou hope to dwell there so

20、on?Hast treasures there laid up in storeThat all in th world thou countst but poor?Art fancy-sick or turnd a SotTo catch at shadows which are not?Come, come. Ill show unto thy sense,28Earth hath more silver, pearls, and goldThan eyes can see or hands can hold.Affects thou pleasure? Take thy fill.Ear

21、th hath enough of what you will.Then let not go what thou mayst findFor things unknown only in mind.29 Spirit: Be still, thou unregenerate part,Disturb no more my settled heart,For I have vowd (and so will do)Thee as a foe still to pursue,And combat with thee will and mustUntil I see thee laid in th

22、 dust.Sister we are, yea twins we be,Yet deadly feud twixt thee and me,For from one father are we not.Thou by old Adam wast begot,But my arise is from above,Whence my dear father I do love.30 Thou speakst me fair but hatst me sore.Thy flattring shews Ill trust no more.How oft thy slave hast thou me

23、madeWhen I believd what thou hast said.31 Ill stop mine ears at these thy charmsAnd count them for my deadly harms.Thy sinful pleasures I do hate,Thy riches are to me no bait.Thine honours do, nor will I love,For my ambition lies above.My greatest honour it shall beWhen I am victor over thee,And Tri

24、umph shall, with laurel head,When thou my Captive shalt be led.How I do live, thou needst not scoff,For I have meat thou knowst not of.The hidden manna I do eat; (the food sent to Israelites)The word of life, it is my meat.32 Eternal substance I do seeWith which inriched I would be.Mine eye doth pierce the heavns and seeWhat is Invisible to thee.33 My garments are not silk nor gold,Nor such like trash which Earth doth hold,But Royal Robes I shall have on,More glorious than the glistring Sun.My Crown not Diamonds, Pearls, and gold,But such as Angels heads infold.34 Th