Children's Literature- (Week Two) Winnie-the-Pooh

1.         Introduction

Ø  Author : A. A. Milne

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腳色命名由來: A. A. Milne named the character owned by his son's toys.  

      Ø  故事常出現一些字是以兒童易誤拚的方式呈現:  hunny(honey) ;  aker(acre) …

Ø  Eeyore是為擬聲字(Onomatopoeia)

2.   課堂補充

Ø  Onomatopoeia:

ü  Onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

ü  Example:  drip 小水滴; drop 大水滴; croak 青蛙叫

Ø  Nonsense:

ü  Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning.

ü  Nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning.

ü  Example:

²  Beautiful soup (Lewis Carroll)

BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green,

Waiting in a hot tureen!

Who for such dainties would not stoop?

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,

Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,

Game, or any other dish?

Who would not give all else for two

Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?

Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,

Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!

²  Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Alice is told the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter, in which oysters are tricked by the two main characters and then eaten. The Walrus speaks a great deal of nonsense in order to ignore the protests of the oysters. In the Walrus and the Carpenter, nonsense becomes a tool used by the powerful to bewilder and exploit the weak and helpless.

²  Finnefans Wake (James Joyce)