惠特曼 自我之歌分析

1、 Song of myself (The Yankeeto her feet)1. The theme of the poemIn this part, at first, the poet catches a beautiful scene of a “Yankee clipper”, and then interrupted by boatman to go and “have a good time” around “chowder-kettle”. At last, peoples happiness, casualty and beauty in a wedding is vivid

2、ly described. Based on the context and our group discussion, we believe the theme of this poem lies in its positive attitude towards life and appreciation lifes beauty.2. The poets attitude and feeling and oursAfter the group talk we agree that the poem is in a happy ,joyous and leisure mood, and th

3、e poet is full of passion and happiness in terms of human life and harmonious relationships.We are impressed by the poets active and passionate attitude. The word “sparkle and scud” jump into our eyes, by which we almost hear the crisp cut sound and see the shinning of the scissors. These two words

4、make this line alive by offering us a sensible picture.3. Social referencewe think this poem mainly based on Whitmans own experience in the wild vast West frontier of America. From this poems contest its not hard to find that Whitmans witness of the free and casual way of peoples life contributed to

5、 this poem. 4. LanguageThis poem is written in bank verse, the unique form of Whitmans poem. Its free form pulsing the plain words make this poem easy to understand. Whitman also employs a factual tone, a straight forward way when he describes the “Yankee clipper”, the party, and people who are goin

6、g to have a wedding. I heard a fly buzz-when I die-1. Theme of the poemThe poet described what Ill go through “when I die”. The poet “heard a fly buzz”, wondering she is seeing God, flashing back what she had been through and gradually dying.2. Attitude and feelingIn term of facing death, the poet s

7、tays sober and calm and treats death as something trivial. A still and silent environment is created .we can feel this from “hear a buzz” and “breaths were gathering firm”. The poet dies without any company suggesting a lonely atmosphere.The line “The Eyes around-had wrung them dry -And Breaths were

8、 gathering firm” impress me the most. It gives me detailed description on the poets death slowly and surely. The process from live to death seems being stretched, which made me terrified and sad in a way. 3 RhythmThis poem has 4 stanzas and each stanza has 4 lines. The rhyme scheme is A BCB, with tr

9、imester and tetrameter iambic lines.4 languageThe poem is written in unique Emily Dickinsons style: frequent use of dash, Capitalization and off-rhymes that could be found everywhere in the poem. The dash is the only punctuation used, which save time for readers to pause, feel and think. Capitalizat

10、ion obviously stressed the importance and feeling of the words like “Fly” “Heaves” “Keepsakes” and “Windows”. Onomatopoeia could also be found. The “buzz” is the sound of “a fly I heard when I died”. The poet employs religious language when she said “the King”, who is God. She also uses symbolic language. The