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1、Emily Dickinson(1830 1886),Life,Emily Dickinson was born into one of Amherst,Massachusetts most prominent families on 10 December 1830.She was the second child born to Emily Norcross(1804-1882)and Edward Dickinson(1803-1874),a Yale graduate,successful lawyer,Treasurer for Amherst College and a Unite
2、d States Congressman.,Life,Emily had an older brother named William Austin Dickinson(1829-1895)(known as Austin)who would marry her most intimate friend Susan Gilbert in 1856.The Dickinsons were strong advocates for education and Emily too benefited from an early education in classic literature,stud
3、ying the writings of Virgil and Latin,mathematics,history,and botany.,Life,Dickinson proved to be a dazzling student and in 1847,though she was already somewhat of a homebody,at the age of seventeen Emily left for South Hadley,Massachusetts to attend the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.She stayed ther
4、e less than a year and some of the theories as to why she left are homesickness and poor health.,Life,She was in the midst of the college towns society and bustle although she started to spend more time alone,reading and maintaining lively correspondences with friends and relatives.Emily Dickinson d
5、ied on 15 May 1886,at the age of fifty-six.She now rests in the West Cemetery of Amherst,Hampshire County,Massachusetts.Not wishing a church service,a gathering was held at the Homestead.,The themes in Dickinsons poems,1.religion 2.death and immortality 3.love 4.nature,The themes in Dickinsons poems
6、,Dickinsons poems are usually based on her experiences,her sorrows and joys.But within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings,which include religion,death,immorality,love,and nature.1.religion In some of her poems she wrote about her doubt and belief a
7、bout religious subjects.,The themes in Dickinsons poems,2.death and immortality Closely related to Dickinsons religious poetry are her poems concerning death and immortality,（不朽）ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.Dickinsons greatest rendering（描写）of
8、the moment of death is to be found in“I heard a Fly buzz when I died”,a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.,The themes in Dickinsons poems,3.Love Love is another subject Dickinson dwelt on.One group of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause.These poems ar
9、e clearly the reflection of her own unhappy experience,closely related to her deepest and most private feelings.,3.Love,The other group of love poems focuses on the physical aspect of desire,in which Dickinson dealt with,allegorically,the influence of the male authorities over the female,emphasizing
10、 the power of physical attraction and expressing a mixture of fear and fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.,The themes in Dickinsons poems,4.nature In her poems Dickinsons skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.(1)On the one hand,she shared with
11、 her romantic and transcendental predecessors who believed that a mythical 神话的,虚构的 bond between man and nature existed,that nature revealed to man things about mankind and universe.,(2)On the other hand,she felt strongly about natures inscrutability（不可预测性）and indifference to the life and interests o
12、f human beings.,Dickinsons artistic characteristics,Dicksons poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.1)no titles.2)dashes are used as a musical device 3)capital letters as a means of emphasis.,Dickinsons artistic characteristics,4)The form of her poetry is familiar,communal（公共的）,and somet
13、imes,irregular.5)short;a singly image or symbol;one subject matter.6)personal and meditative.7)She often used persona and personification,Dickinsons artistic characteristics,Dickinsons poetry,despite its ostensible（表面上的）formal simplicity,is remarkable for its variety,subtlety and richness,and her li
14、mited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.,She wanted to live simply as a complete independent being,and so she did,as a spinster.She called this stream of tiny,aphoristic格言(似)的 poems a continuous fragmented letter to the world,a way to bridge her p
15、rivate world with the public.,moment of death,“I heard a Fly buzz when I died”我死的时候听见一只苍蝇嗡嗡地响,This poem is a description of the moment of death.Key points:1)“The Eyes around had wrung them dry”:relatives cried,no tears any more.2)“the King”:the God of death,3)windows:the door to heaven4)“failed”:her
16、 doubt of the existence of eternal heaven5)“With Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz”:the sight of the dying became dim and listening weak.,我死的时候-听见一只苍蝇嗡嗡响-房间里宁静无声好象暴风雨起伏之间-天空中宁静无声-,四周的眼睛-已经哭得干枯-呼吸都坚定地聚集等候那最后的一击-这时，神在这房间里-受到注意-,我立下遗嘱-馈赠遗物，签字让去属于我的部分中可以让与的-于是一只苍蝇插进来-,带着沮丧的-飘忽、颠踬的嗡嗡声-飞在光亮-和我之间-于是，窗户模糊了-于是我看
17、不见自己看什么-,theme,The poem describes the deathbed scene of the persona.Like many of her contemporaries,Dickinson was fascinated with the experience of death.,theme,In particular,she wanted to know if their deaths revealed any information about the nature of the afterlife.In this poem,she imagines her o
18、wn death,and the answer she provides for the deathbed scene is grim,as grim as anything she ever wrote.,Because I could not stop for Death-Emily Dickinson,Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves-And Immortality.,We slowly drove-He knew no hast
19、e And I had put away My labor and my Leisure too,For His Civility-,We passed the School,where Children strove At Recess-in the Ring We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-We passed the Setting Sun-,Or rather-He passed Us The Dews drew quivering and chill For only Gossamer,my Gown My Tippet-only Tulle-
20、,We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground The Roof was scarcely visible he Coraice-in the Ground-,Since then-tis Centuries-and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the HorsesHeads Were toward Eternity-,因为我不能停下来等待死神 因为我不能停下来等待死神 他和善地停下来等我 那辆车只能容我们两个 还有不朽。,我们慢慢驱车他不慌不忙 我
21、也把我的劳与闲 统统丢掉一边，为了他的礼让,我们慢慢驱车他不慌不忙 我也把我的劳与闲 统统丢掉一边，为了他的礼让,我们走过校园，孩子们你推我搡，在休息时间，在圆形广场 我们走过在田间凝眸的麦杆 我们走过落日旁,或毋宁说，他走过我们身旁 寒露降，身子冻得打颤 因为我的长衫落纱般 我的披肩如丝网,我们停步在一所房子前，那似乎是隆起的土地一片 屋顶几乎看不见 屋檐在地里面,离那时已是几个世纪 过了还不到一天，我首次猜测到，马头 在朝向永恒奔窜。,“Because I could not stop for Death”,1.In this poem Dickinson personifies deat
22、h and immortality so as to make her message strongly felt.2.“we”were riding in a hearse(or carriage),heading toward Eternity.1)“he”:death2)“carriage”:hearse,carriage for carrying a coffin at a funeral3)The School,The Fields of Gazing Grain,The Setting Sun-symbolize three stages of ones life:youth,ma
23、nhood and old age.4)“gown”:grave clothes5)“house”:grave,Analysis,The poem begins with a leisurely image.At first,the protagonist feels totally at ease and the usually frightening death is described as if a familiar friend,gentle and polite.Continuingly,the poem is developed upon a basic metaphor tha
24、t life is a journey.It was truly rather old a comparison,Analysis,but Dickinson enriched it with her creativity and imagination:School,where Children strove-childhood;Fields of Gazing Grain-maturity;and Setting Sun-old age.Then“the Dews drew quivering and chill-”makes the protagonist feel terribly c
25、old,which may mean that they are getting nearer and nearer to the tomb.But at last,his companions,Immortality and Death,finally desert him and leave him alone to go toward Eternity.,Her poem about nature,T WAS later when the summer went Than when the cricket came,And yet we knew that gentle clock Me
26、ant nought but going home.T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came,Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time.,夏天刚刚离去蟋蟀就出现，可那柔和的钟表只是催我们回家。蟋蟀刚刚离去冬天就出现，可那哀婉的钟摆遵守着奥秘的时间。,这些诗或质朴清新，如行云流水；或灵动跳跃，如山涧小溪；或哀婉缠绵，如林中曲径；或虚幻空灵，如空谷幽兰。每一首诗都是那么地与众不同，每一首诗都能给人难以言状的奇妙感受。读她的诗，总会在不经意间被感动。她用她那微妙细腻的笔
27、触引领着你走进她神秘而又浪漫的心灵花园，带着你品尝她一生的梦想与伤痛。,What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in the her poem“Because I could stop for Death”?A.Horse and carriageB.Stage and performanceC.Cloud and shadeD.Ship and harbor,In“I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”and“Because I could not stop for Death,”Emily Dickinsons a
28、ttitude toward death is that of _.A.eager embraceB.helpless anxietyC.peaceful acceptanceD.terrified despair,I heard a Flay buzz-when I died-The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work fr
29、om which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.,“With Blueuncertain stumbling BuzzBetween the lightand meAnd then the Windows failedand thenI could not see to see“Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What do“Windows”symbolically stand for?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?,A Th
30、e poem is I heard as Fly buzz when I died by Emily Dickinson.B windows symbolically stand for the door to heaven.C The quoted passage vividly describes the moment of my dying and expresses my doubt of the existence of eternal heaven.,“We passed The School,where Children strove At Recessin the Ring W
31、e passed The Fields of Gazing Grain We passed The Setting Sun”Questions:A.Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem“Because I could not stop for Death?B.What do the underlined parts symbolize?C.Where were“we”heading toward?,答案要点,A.Emily DickinsonB.The School,The Fields of Gazing Grain,The
32、 Setting Sun-symbolize three stages of ones life:youth,manhood and old age.C.“we”were riding in a hearse(or carriage),heading toward Eternity.,Perhaps Emily Dickinsons greatest interpretation of the moment of _ is to be found in“I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”,a poem universally regarded as one of h
33、er masterpieces.A.fantasy B.birthC.crisis D.death,Altogether,Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems,of which only _ had appeared during her lifetime.Athree BfiveCseven Dnine,Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?AShe remained unmarried all her life BShe wrote,1,77
34、5 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.CHer poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.DHer limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.,In general,the American woman poet _ wanted to live simply as a com
35、plete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.A.Anne Bret B.Emily DickinsonC.Anna Dickinson D.Emily Shaw,Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique,they differ from each other in a variety of ways.For one thing,whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on h
36、uman society at large,Dickinson often addresses such issues as（）,immortality,religion,love and nature.A.progressB.freedom C.beauty D.death,Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.,Most of Emily Dickinsons poems were published _.A.When she was young.B.After her failed love affairC.In her old age.D.After her death.,
