文學作品導讀week12

 

1.vocabulary

 

Piazza: an open square or public place in a city or town,

especially in Italy.

 

Lilac: having large clusters of fragrant purple or white flowers:

the state flower of New Hampshire.

 

 

Yeast: any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum

Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding

 

Hypo- under

hypocrisy

a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious

beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

 

 

2. E. E. Cummings

 

Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the

abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase

letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist,

author, and playwright. He is remembered as an eminent voice of

20th century English literature.

some of his poetry is free verse, many have a recognizable sonnet

structure of 14 lines, with an intricate rhyme scheme.

 

Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond

 

特色:

 1. “ i ” 小寫表示作者覺得人渺小

 2. “…travelled,gladly…” 一般逗點後空一格，

    此詩無表示上氣不接下氣

 

 

l(a

"l(a" is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his

1958 collection 95 Poems.

"l(a" is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters.

 

When the text is laid out horizontally, it either reads as l(a leaf falls)

oneliness —in other words, a leaf falls inserted between the first two

letters of loneliness- or l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness, with a le af fa ll s

between a l and one.

 

 

Free verse

an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns,

rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the

rhythm of natural speech.

 

 

3.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

 

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem in the

form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman in 1865.

The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary

techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. Despite the poem being

an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by

name nor discusses the circumstances of his death. Instead, Whitman

 uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of

the lilacs, a drooping star in the western sky (Venus), and the hermit

thrush, and employs the traditional progression of the pastoral elegy

in moving from grief toward an acceptance and knowledge of death.

Civil War (1861–1865) which ended only days before the assassination.

 

 

4.

"Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden.

An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final,

familiar form was first published in The Year's Poetry

 

Four Weddings and a Funeral - "Funeral Blues"(youtube)

 

 

5. song: The End Of The World - SKEETER DAVIS