advent點燈
        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".
purple stands for royal people or winning anglicized

Lost generation
        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. 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.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  THE SECOND COMING
    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Beat generation
        The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture: rejection of received standards, innovations in style, use of illegal drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.

吃莎莎的棉花糖一起唱歌
Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
(lyric)
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for roasting
And caroling out in the snow (out in the snow)
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories
Of Christmases long, long ago

講義:
p.702
The Fall of the House of the Usher
提到窗子“the vacant eye-like windows”- 老舊的窗戶
e.g.
Araby by James Joyce
The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room.

p.714
without the door= stand beside the door
zip-zag 撕開的傷痕
at my feet closed 湖水淹到腳邊

課本:
p.1189
Emily Dickinson

        Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. 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.

p.1193
EMILY DICKINSON
Success is counted sweetest (給連勝文的詩)

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

free verse (考id)
        Much pattern and discipline is to be found in free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty. With the Imagists free verse became a discipline and acquired status as a legitimate poetic form. For example, "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman.

p.1197
EMILY DICKINSON
I’m Nobody! Who are you?

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog – 
To tell one’s name – the livelong June – 
To an admiring Bog!

Odysseus
"I am Odysseus of Ithaca."
I like you, Greek,' he said. 'I'm going to do you a favor. What's your name?
'My name is Nobody,' I told him.