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1、一整理为word格式I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,The black-clad cricket bear a second part,They kept one tune, and played on the same string,Seeming to glory in their little art.Shall creatures abject thus their voices raise?And in their kind resound their makers praise,Whilst I, as mute, can warbl
2、e forth no higher lays?“Under the cooling shadow of a stately Elm,Close state I by a goodly Rivers side,Where gliding streams the Rocks did overwhelm;A lonely place with pleasures dignifid.I once that lovd the shady woods so well,Now thought the rivers did the trees excel,And if the sun would ever s
3、hine there would I dwell.“While musing thus with contemplation fed,And thousand fancies buzzing in my brain,The sweet tongud Philomel percht oer my head,And chanted forth a most melodious strain,Which rapt me so with wonder and delight,I judgd my hearing better than my sight.题目：the 9th of Contemplat
4、ions作者：Anne Bradstreet赏析：1.Rhyme royal: sevenline iambic petametre 七行五步抑扬格2.Rhyme: ababccc3.Theme: religion4.象征：black-clad=death; abject=admitting defeat; maker= god5.A genuine expression of poetic feeling in the presence of nature. The poem offers the reader an insight into the mentality of the ear
5、ly Puritan pioneering in a new world. The poet heard the grasshopper and the cricket sing, and she searched for her own soul accordingly. 6.She saw sth metaphysical inhering in the physical, a mode of perception which was singularly Puritan整理为word格式二 It was about this time I conceived the bold and a
6、rduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the o
7、ne and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded,
8、at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of condu
9、ct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method.In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalog more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confin
10、ed to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition, I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, t
11、han a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.整理为word格式题目：Autobiography作者：Benjamin Franklin赏析：1.One of Benjami
12、n Franklins literary successes. 1771-1788, incomplete when he died.2.Purpose: to make the experience of his own career, the conduct and habit of life which had led to success in his own case, a source of help and inspiration to others.3.The story of his struggles, errors, experiments with himself, a
13、ccomplishment.4.Wonderful frankness & extreme simplicity 三整理为word格式“God knows, Im not myselfIm somebody else and Im changed, and I cant tell whats my name, or who I am.”RipDame Van Winkle题目：Rip Van Winkle作者：Washington Irving赏析：1.Rip: self-centered, careless, anti-intellectual, imaginative, and holly
14、 as the overgrown child. He symbolizes the immature America.2.Dame Van Winkle (Rips wife): symbolizes the puritanical discipline and the work ethic of Franklin.3.Why sleep 20 years?Purpose: to show us clearly the conflicts and dreams of the nationsthe conflict of innocence and experience, work and l
15、eisure, the old and the new, the head and the heart. It is also to tell us that a man who has looked toward the beginning of civilization in America can make a choice in his analysis of his own life.4.Inevitably changing America.整理为word格式四整理为word格式A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm, Mounts through all the spires of form.题目： Nature作者： Ralph Waldo Emerson赏析：1.Transcendentalism2.Prose: casual style (derived from
