sweetannie的部落格

開頭p.703~p.704

1. Poetic subgenres:

    (1) Narrative poetry

    (2) Lyric Poetry

    (3) The Dramatic Monologue

     p.677 Lyric Poetry (抒情詩,頌)(較短) include ode and elegy     (lyre七弦琴)

    the earliest "lyrics" in the Greek were likely associated with religious, occasions and feelings

    elegy→celebration, praise, mourning

2. A40→p.805 metaphor (compare!)

    That time of year thou mayst in me behold

3. glee, gay→happy

4. The bliss of solitude

    bliss is a state of extreme happiness

    solitude is the state or situation of being alone

    the bliss of solitude is the extreme happiness you feel when you are alone

5. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats p.1098

    Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

6. William Faulkner speech

    I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

7. p.879 an example for typical elegy (lemand: feel sorry for)

8. To Helen

9. When I was One-and-Twenty

10. Because I could not stop for Death

11. p.878

     gentle/ good night→oxymoron

12. Oedipus—Sphinx's riddle (swollen anklle)

13. Robert Frost—Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

p.775

14. the end of the world—Skeeter Davis

15. O Captain! My Captain!