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1、Edgar Allan Poe, 080535 9213寝室,Born: January 19, 1809)Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died: October 7, 1849) (aged40)Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Nationality: American Spouse(s): Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe,Edgar Allan Poe,Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered pa
2、rt of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fi
3、ction.,Achievement,Allan Poe was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He was orphaned young and was taken in by John and Frances Allan, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University
4、 of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to a Bostonian.,Life,Assessment,Poe was a complex person, tormented and alcoholic yet also considerate and humorous,
5、 a good friend, and an affectionate husband. Indeed, his painful life, his neurotic attraction to intense beauty, violent horror, and death, and his sense of the world of dreams contributed to his greatness as a writer. Such compelling stories as “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the Ho
6、use of Usher” involve the reader in a universe that is at once beautiful and grotesque, real and fantastic.,His poems (including “To Helen,” “The Raven,” “The City in the Sea,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee”) are rich with musical phrases and sensuous, at times frightening, images. Poe was also an i
7、ntelligent and witty critic who often theorized about the art of writing. The analytical mind he brought to criticism is evident also in his famous stories of ratiocination, notably “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter.” Poe influenced such diverse authors as Swinburne, Tennyson
8、, Dostoyevsky, Conan Doyle, and the French symbolists.,Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and televisi
9、on. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.,Influence,Selected List of Works,Poetry Tales Other works,Tamerlane 帖木儿 The Raven 乌鸦 Lenore 丽诺尔 Al Aaraaf 阿尔阿拉夫 The Bells 钟 Eldorado 黄金国 To Helen 致海伦 Annabel Lee 安娜贝尔李 The City in the Sea 海中之城 The Haunted Palace 闹鬼的宫殿 The Conqueror Worm 征服者爬虫 So
10、nnet To Science 十四行诗致科学 Ulalume A Ballad 尤娜路姆一首歌谣 A Dream Within A Dream 梦中之梦,Poetry,Tales,“The Black Cat” 黑猫 The Cask of Amontillado一桶蒙特亚白葡萄酒 “The Fall of the House of Usher”厄舍古屋的倒塌 “The Gold-Bug” 金甲虫 “Hop-Frog” 跳蛙 “The Imp of the Perverse” 反常之魔 Ligeia丽姬娅 “The Masque of the Red Death” 红死魔的假面舞会 The
11、Murders in the Rue Morgue莫格街谋杀案 A Tale of the Ragged Mountains凹凸山的故事 The Tell-tale Heart泄密的心,Other Works,Politian (1835) Poes only play 波利希安 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) Poes only complete novel 阿戈皮姆的故事 “The Balloon-Hoax” (1844) A journalistic hoax printed as a true story 气
12、球骗局 “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846) Essay 写作的哲学 Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) Essay 我发现了：一首散文诗 “The Poetic Principle” (1848) Essay 诗歌原理 The Light-House (1849) Poes last incomplete work 光之塔,The Raven,It takes Poe 4 years to complete “The Raven” Topic of the poem: death: “the death of a beautiful
13、 woman is , unquestionably, the most poetic in the world” a sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman Mood of the persona: melancholic, sorrowful, even desperate,Setting of the Poem,midnight: a time associated with the end of life bleak December: a season associated with
14、the end of life the room: warmed and lighted by “dying embers”, associated with the supernatural the purple curtains: a color associated with Funereal custom,The Raven 乌鸦 by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgott
15、en lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more. 从前一个阴郁的子夜，我独自沉思，慵懒疲竭， 沉思许多古怪而离奇、早已被人遗忘的传闻 当我开始打盹，几乎入睡，突然传来一阵轻擂， 仿佛有人在轻轻叩击，轻轻叩击我的房门。
16、 “有人来了，”我轻声嘟喃，“正在叩击我的房门 唯此而已，别无他般。”,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 sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore Nameless here for evermore. 哦，我清楚地记得那是在萧瑟的十二月； 每一团奄奄一息的余烬都形成阴影伏在地板。 我当时真盼望翌日；因为我已经枉费心机 想用书来消除悲哀消除因失去丽诺尔的悲叹 因那被天使叫作丽诺尔的少女，她美丽娇艳 在这儿却默默无闻
