Review Walt Whitman 

1. National poet of demoracy

2. 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.

3. Famous works:

    -> Song of Myself

    -> Leaves of Grass 

    -> When Licas Last in the 

Review Emily Dickinson

1. 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.

2. Dickinson is now almost universally considered to be one of the most important American poets.

3. Famous works:

 -> Success is counted sweetest

 -> Because I could not stop for death

 -> I'm nobody!Who are you?

 -> I heard a Fly buzz－when I Died

About Because I could not stop for death

1. 對死亡及初夜的恐懼

2. 人的三個狀態 (P207):  School: early childhood

                                   Gazing: maturity => Sphinx riddle

                                   Setting Sun: elderly => swelling of the gorund 墓碑         

3. plague 瘟疫:  祈福、the mass of the rendelt (Edgar Allan Poe)

    => 威尼斯面具節: 因為鼠疫以及溫義的猖獗 => Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)

About Sphinx riddle

1. In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, sometimes with the wings of a great bird, and the face of a human. It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.This deadly version of a sphinx appears in the myth and drama of Oedipus.^[

About  I'm nobody!Who are you?

1. Nobody => Odyssey (Ulysses)

                => "To Helen" 對古典文學之於文學如同明燈一般的地位的崇敬

About  I'm nobody!Who are you?

1. whirwind: 他們相信人死亡會面對一個亮光的漩渦

movie: Over the Fence (森林保衛戰)

           慾望街車

2. 約伯傳 Job

   => The most rightess person on the world

   => Scaegoat : Job , Jesus

          => Jesus: scapegoat, the chosen person, after life 

3. king 造物主

4. keepsakes => 該隱Kane & 亞伯Abel 的兄弟謀殺案

movie: My Sister's keeper

5. windows 指眼睛

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American Literaute (1865-1914)

1. 1914 歐美勢力消長的重點時間

2. 寫實主義=> Mark Twain代表中下階層，密西西比河附近

                => Henry James, T.S. Eliot 代表中上階層，歸化英國(naturalize)

About Mark Twain

1. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel".

2. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada.

About Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1. Tom Sawyer, Huck

2. Child protagonist=> 主角單親或窮苦無依或孤決心靈

  => e.g. Harry Poter, Dorothy, Secret Garden

3.  弱勢族群的集結，挑戰極限

4. leadership, brotherhood

5. 方言或俚語 (colloquia) 凸顯地方色彩和角色身分

 => e.g. spare the road and spile the child中 spile 英為spoil

6. run-on sentences, 結構破碎的語句，口語文字

7. 頑童歷險記用第一人稱敘述 <->湯姆用第三人稱的敘述觀點

8.  double negative: 黑人或未受教育的小孩所使用

 => e.g. "He aint a comin back no mo,"

              " I don't know nothing."

 

About Henry James

1. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

2. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

3. 有錢人，中上階級，東北以及都會區

4. 對母國文化的嚮往

5. Daisy Miller

6. 純真年代的作者 => Edith Wharton "Rome Fever"

About Daisy Miller

1. Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year.

2.   It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.