文學作品導讀 week1

1.three genres of literature

 a. fiction: the classification for any story created by the imagination, rather

than based strictly on history or fact.

  b. poem: a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of

language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—

to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic

ostensible meaning.

  c. drama: The term comes from the Greek word δρᾶμα, drama, meaning

action, which is derived from the verb δράω, draō, meaning to

do or to act.

 

2.vocabulary

a. nov- : new

  for example: renovate(v.): 1. to restore to good condition; make new or

as if new again; repair.

2. to reinvigorate; refresh; revive

                       Innovate(v.): to introduce something new; make changes in

 anything established.

                        Novel(adj.): of a new kind; different from anything seen or

known before.

b. sub- : under

for example:

subway(n.): an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.

 

 

 

submarine(n.): a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under

              water, usually built for warfare and armed with

              torpedoes or guided missiles.

 

 

 

3.sonnet

A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini

is credited with its invention.The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word

sonetto (from Old Provençal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin

sonus a sound). By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines

that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

※fourteen lines = 3quatrains + 1couplet

                                          

Sonnet 18

 

 

Sonnet 18, often alternatively titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's

day?, is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English

playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence

(which comprises sonnets 1–126 in the accepted numbering stemming from

the first edition in 1609), it is the first of the cycle after the opening sequence

now described as the procreation sonnets.

In the sonnet, the speaker compares his beloved to the summer season, and

argues that his beloved is better. He also states that his beloved will live on

forever through the words of the poem.

 

※ line5: "the eye of heaven," = the sun(metaphor)  → Why??

 

 

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy believed to have been written

by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597, portrays the events

surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta.

These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group

of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated

by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The

play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is

widely performed across the world.

 

5. The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is

Morrison's first novel and was written while she was teaching at Howard

University and raising her two sons on her own. The story is about a year

in the life of a young black girl named Pecola who develops an inferiority

complex due to her eye color and skin appearance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference website:

midsummer

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sonnet18

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submarine

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rine&oq=submarine&gs_l=img.3..0l10.4848.13761.0.14146.13.9.2.2.3.0.188.954.6j3.

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subway

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The bluest eye

https://www.google.com.tw/search?biw=1366&bih=651&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=the+

bluest+eye&oq=the+bluest+eye&gs_l=img.3..0j0i30l9.6328.19097.0.20106.20.13.3.

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