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1、Part III. The Literature of RomanticismPassage 4Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visit
2、or, I muttered, tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had tried to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost.1
3、.Who is the writer of these lines?2.What is the title of this poem from which the selection is selected?3.Recognize the sound devices in the following lines. LI _ L4 _L7_ L10_4.Describe the mood of this poem.Answers:1.Edgar Allan Poe2.The Raven3.LIAlliteration, L4Onomatopoeia, L7Internal rhyme, L10A
4、ssonance4.A sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem, the portrayal of a young man grieving for his lost Leno-re, his grief turned to madness under the steady one-word repetition of the talking bird.Passage 5Lo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow st
5、atue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!1.This is the last stanza of a poem To Helen. Who wrote this poem To Heleni2.With whom is Helen associated in Line 4 of the present stanza?3.Who is Psyche?Answers1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Psyche3.Psych
6、e is the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology.Passage 6To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those hea
7、venly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a th
8、ousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:1.This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. W
9、hat is the name of the essay?2.Who is the author?3.What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?4.Give a peculiar term to cover the authors belief.Answers:1.Nature2.Ralph Waldo Emerson3.Then, the men cannot believe and adore the God, cannot preserve there
10、 membrance of the city of God which had been shown.4.TranscendentalismPassage 7Standing on the bare groundmy head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite spaceall mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate
11、 through me; I am part or particle of God.Questions:1.Which work is this selection taken from?2.How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these words?Answers:1.Nature2.Ralph Waldo Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct int
12、uition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In this connection, Emerson s emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one.3.Now this is a moment of conversion when one feels completely merged with the outside world, when one has completely sunk into nature and become one with it, and
13、 when the soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omniscience of the Oversoul. In a word, the soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Oversoul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind natur
14、e, throughout nature.Passage 8I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so de
15、ar; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are
