Advent: Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The term is an anglicized version of the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming".
Advent is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on the fourth Sunday before Christmas.
purple- royal color
4 weeks before Christmas they light the candles
Hubris wait for the Jesus' coming. (Bible)
Anglican 英國國教派
Presbyterian 長老教派
Lutheran 路德教派
Jesus' first coming (Ministry of Jesus): In the Christian gospels, the ministry of Jesus begins with his baptism in the countryside of Roman Judea and Transjordan, near the river Jordan, and ends in Jerusalem, following the Last Supper with his disciples.
Jesus' second coming --> The Second Coming (William Butler Yeats => 見證turning of the century，因為大戰後物質喪失造成精神文明的破產)
The Second Coming
1. In Christianity, the Second Coming, sometimes called the second advent of Christ or the parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus to Earth.
第一句強調死亡之意-> 但有死亡才有再生
最後一段第一句強調心靈的荒蕪以及精神文明上的破產
About Gertrude Stein
1. A literary innovator and pioneer of Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century.
2. She was also known as a collector of Modernist art.
About lost generation
1. The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.
2.When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the garage owner shouted at the boy, "You are all a "génération perdue."
3. Stein, in telling Hemingway the story, added, "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."
4. This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Erich Maria Remarque.
About Beat Generation
1. Beat generation- 群聚在San Francisco => San Fracisco Renaissance.
最後一段 第四行 beast
=> Book of Revelation
全詩描述焦慮以及對未來還有可能的渴望
Song: It's the most wonderful time of the year (Andy Williams)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2urlriwjcg)
聖誕節會做的事: party, marshmallow caroling, tales
About The Fall of the House of Usher
1. Title character 以第一人稱敘述，強調authentic
2. "窗" -> Dubliner, Araby
枯藤老樹昏鴉 => 強調孤寂荒蕪的情緒
3. The use of alliteration
About The Tell-Tale Heart
1. 引用 longfellow: 第一人稱
2. P713 第三行 acute 急性 <-->慢性
=> mock 嘲笑 (p715)
=> hideous. hork 擬聲字
Gothic 哥德式 : 高聳尖塔、
Gothic fiction-> setting: horror, Romanticism
-> Jane Eyre
wretch亂七八糟 (P714)
without the door, stand beside the door
zig-zag 擬聲
my feet closed 到腳邊
About Emily Dickinson
1. She was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.
2. 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.
1. Success is Counted Sweetest
* 名詞大寫: 德語的殘留
* purple : the royal color
2. I am Nobody!Who are you?
=> Odysseus
iambizpertameter
3. Should I compure sea to the summer's day
*rhyming scheme
ad- forward
example: advertisement
advance
adventage
fra- 破碎
exaple: fragment
fragile
frality
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