【正文】 seldom invents his own plots。s time, English grammar amp。 mighty. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary amp。s dayyouth the eye of heaventhe sun 2) The Merchant of Venice Theme: To praise the friendship between Antonio amp。s most famous monologue. Hamlet, facing the dilemma of 9 action amp。 most eloquent spokesmen for experimental science. He lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking amp。s other important literary works include The New Atlantis, an account of an ideal society amp。 characters. His works can be divided into three groups： First group: The Advancement of Learning (1605) Novum Organum (1620) (Latin version) Second group: Essays Apophthagmes New amp。 prudential man, he intends to write for the ambitious Elizabethan amp。s essays are famous for their brevity, pactness amp。s time they were revolutionary, Marx called him the real father of English materialism amp。 persuasive, pact amp。 weighty. It is some what affected, like the water in the reservoir, restricted amp。 attitudes, amp。 moods. The mode is dynamic rather than static, with ingenuity of speech, vividness of imagery amp。 cadences of mon speech. The imagery is drawn from the actual life. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet39。 to express their ideas, they used startling, highly imaginative parisons known as conceits. A conceit is a bination of thoughts or images that are not usually associated with one another. The finest works of the metaphysical poets bine intellectual subtlety with great emotional power. The poems reflect a broad knowledge of science, art, amp。 direct as ordinary speech. 2 識記 His major works In his life, Donne wrote a large number of poems amp。 A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. Most of The Elegies amp。 sons, epistles, elegies, amp。 imaginative, exhibiting the same kind of physical vigor amp。 therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls。 the conceit, a pertinent parison between 2 apparently dissimilar things. His early Lyrics most exist in The Songs amp。s love poetry. As a religious poet, his chief power is shown in the Holy Sons amp。 unworthy of being called mighty amp。s belief in lif 12 e after death: death is eternal. 2) The Sun Rising The persona apostrophizes the sun as unruly because the sun enters the lovers39。 prose writer, born in London, England, Dec. 9, 1608, and died in London, Nov 8, 1674. Milton was one of the greatest poets in the English language amp。 Eve in the Garde。 dramatic work, based in part on the Biblical story of the temptation amp。 that he should not be behaving so tediously as to stick to his rule amp。 desperate mena craven thing that keeps bad pany, such as poison, was amp。s Holy Sons, is an almost Startling putdown of poor death. Staunchly Christian in its pare expectation of the resurrection, Donne39。 body. The operations of the soul depend on the body. Idealism amp。s poetry is subtle, plex, amp。 every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… Any man39。 cynical youth, to Dean John Donne, a man devoted to God. Donne39。 a good many of The Songs amp。 intellectual wit. Many of his poems rank with the finest in the English language. Among his most famous works are the poems Death Be Not Proud, Go amp。 experiences, such as jealousy, the loss of religious faith, the plexi 11 ties of love amp。 Thomas Traherne are also considered to be metaphysical poets. They wrote on a variety of religious amp。 smooth running. The most striking feature of Donne39。 attitudes, amp。 the Metaphysical Poetry John Donne: English poet amp。s mature attitude towards learning. Bacon39。s 58 essays. It analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, amp。 enriched by Biblical allusions, Metaphors amp。 tell them how to be efficient amp。s Essais, which appeared from 1580 to 1588. Bacon learned from Montaigne, the first great modern essayist, the economic amp。 The History of the Reign of King Henry Ⅶ , a perceptive psychological study of Henry39。 riches. Written in a terse, polished style, with many learned allusions amp。 hide his hatred for his uncle in his deep heart, which may secure his life. IV. Francis Bacon 1. 一般識記 Brief Introduction English Renaissance philosopher, essayist, statesman, born in London, England, Jan 22,1561 and died in London, April 9 1626. One of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance, Bacon made important contributions to several fields. His chief interest were science philosophy, but he was also a distinguished man of letters amp。 loyalty, amp。 distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader. 7. 應(yīng)用 Selected Readings 1) Son 18 Theme: a profound meditation on the destructive power of time amp。 pronouns as nouns. Such freedom gave his language an extraordinary flexibility, which enabled him to express his thoughts as easily in poetry as in prose. Most of Shakespeare39。 Roman sources. There are usually several threads running through the play, thus providing the story with suspense amp。 loyal Juliet, amp。 innocent women, such as Ophelia in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello, amp。 meanwhile, they may share features with others. The soliloquies in his plays fully reveal the inner conflict of his characters. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters. The women in the plays are vivid creations, each differing from the others. Shakespeare was fond of portraying mocking wenches, such as Kate of the Taming of the Shrew, Rosaline of Love39。 the corrupting influence of gold amp。 a concluding thought is presented in the couplet. B. Other poems Venus amp。s disillusionment with the false ness of earthly life. The form of the poems is the English Variation of the traditional Italian, or Petrarchan, son,