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* Advent (Christmas)

            à 點燈
            à Anglicized
            à It is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration for the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.
            à It is the Latin word for “coming”
            à The beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday (in the Roamn Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterian and Methodist calendars).
            à This advent starts on the Fourth Sunday before December 25
            à lighting an Advent Wreath
            à Praying an Advent daily devotional
 

* Purple – the color of loyal


* Beat Generation vs. Lost Generation
            à Beat Generation: group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of “Beat” culture: rejection of receive standards, innovations in style, use of illegal drug, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.
            à Lost Generation: generation that came of age during WWI. It was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel

* Book of Revelation
            à a book of the New Testament that occupies a central place in Christian eschatology.

* Nativity of Jesus (Marshmallow)
            à It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

* Emily Dickinson
            à An American poet, born in Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.
            à She was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time.
            à Her poems are unique for the era
            à Many of her poem deals with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
            à she does not provide title for her poems (only numbers)
            à Free verse: does not contain meter patterns
                         à no Iambic Pentameter
                                    - v – v –v – v – v - 
                                    - “Shall I Compare Thee to The Summer’s Day”|
 

* Edgar Allan Poe
            à “The Fall of the House of Usher”
                        à Usher 領進門
                        à Alliteration: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day
                        à 5 senses: eye, window, ear
                        à mansion of gloom: sorrowful, altered
                        à Roderick Usher: pitiable mental idiosyncrasy
                        à tarn: almost overflow, foreshadowing
                        à beloved sister: lady Madeline (is going to dead)
                        à “The Haunted Palace”
                        à Super

* Araby – James Joyce (in Dubliner)

* Gothic
            à Gothic Milan
            à Gothic Notre Dance
            à Gothic Fiction: largely dominated by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel the Castle of Otranto.

* 911 Bush Shatter
            à “Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a Power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.”
            à “by a power grater than any of us” = God
            à “You” = everyone


* Fragile