英国文学史复习资料(7)

Theme: The author express his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom

from the reality. Compare the west wind to destroyer of the old who

drives the last signs of life from the trees, and preserver of the new

who scatter the seads shich sill come to life in the spring. This is a

poem about renewal, about the wind blowing life back into dead

things, implying not just an arc of life (which would end at death)

but a cycle, which only starts again when something dies.

Comment: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is written in

iambic pentameter. It contains five sonnet length stanzas, each with

a closing couplet. The rhyming scheme form is aba bcb cdc ded ee.

The tone is poignant. Many will agree that this poem is an

invocation for an unseen force to take control and revive life.

Artistic features:

Using rerza rima(三行诗aba bcb cdc ded efe …)

5. John Keats约翰 济慈1795~1821

(―美即是真，真即是美‖是他的著名诗句。)

Theme: The theme of John Keats' poem, "To Autumn", is that change is both

natural and beautiful. The poem praises the glories of the fall

season by using almost every type of imagery to both charm and

appeal to the reader.

Comment: The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time passes by, but also

asserts that this change usually yields something new and better

than what came before. Each of the poem's three stanzas represents

the evolving of two different types of change. One type of change

shown in the poem is the change of periods in a day.

6. Jane Austen简 奥斯丁1775~1817

She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only

inches squire.

【Elizabeth Bennet & Darcy】in the end false pride is humbled and prejudice

dissolved

【Collins & Charlotte Lucas】see the reality of marriage as a necessary step

if a woman is to avoid the wretchedness of