The Romantic Period

美國對自我文化的Inferiority complex 自卑情結:

Unsure in its youth, could have been so aggressively self-assertive, so proud of its lack of culture, so vocally confident in ites future, and so fearful of European "evils," particularly what was thought to be European"effeminacy."

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

"Rip Van Winkle" 《李伯大夢》(text)

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 《沉睡谷傳奇》(text)

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補充:

The Civil War 南北戰爭 (1861-1865)

英國浪漫五大詩人:

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Samuel Tylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

John Keats (1795-1821)

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Bridge Over Troubled Water 惡水上的大橋 (song, piano)

Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅圖夜未眠》(Trailer)

"I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair" (song)

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New Words:

trochaic:

Consisting of or employing a trochee or trochees.

揚抑格，長短格。

tetrameter:

A line consisting of four dipodies in trochaic, iambic, or anapestic meter.

四音步詩。

trochaic tetrameter(ˋ-ˋ-ˋ-)

iambic:

Consisting of characterized by their predominance.

pentameter:

A line of verse consisiting of five metrical feet.

五音步詩。

de-: down, away from.

ex: defect, decline, depart.

defect:

A shortcoming, fault, or imperfection.

缺陷。

genuine:

Actual; real.

貨真價實。

swelling up:

swell: increase (in degree, volum, force, size, number, etc.), expand.

pos-: after. 之後。

ex: posthumous. 死後的；死後出版的。