[Notes]

2014.12.17

porn 淫穢之書


Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman ( May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.


plague 瘟疫

Sphinx 人面獅身

cocky 高傲的

Odysseus

Odysseus was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and a hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same Epic Cycle.
Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (mētis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the decade-long Trojan War.


p.1197, p.1207 Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.Considered an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
While Dickinson 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. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.


whirlwind 上帝使者來臨時的白霧旋風

[Quotes] "The most righteous person on the earth"

→ from Book of Job

trial 試煉


舊約聖經 → the Chosen people, scapegoat 代罪羔羊, afterlife


[補充] (卡通)森林保衛戰有暗諷 A Streetcar Named Desire


[Quotes] "Am I my brother's keeper?"

→ from Cain and Abel (舊約●創世紀)

==> Cain (哥哥) killed Abel (弟弟)

※ Abel在希伯來文裡意指"Air"

Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel (Hebrew) were, according to the Book of Genesis, two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing his brother. Interpretations of Genesis 4 by ancient and modern commentators have typically assumed that the motives were jealousy and anger.


[Novels] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ─ Mark Twain

※ Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American author and humorist.

p.1289 ~ p.1465 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


colloquial 口語化的

double negative ==> 黑人 slam


[Quotes] "Spare the rod and spoil the child"

→ from Bible


[補充時事] I'll ride with you. → 對穆斯林的關懷