【正文】 fall of Adam amp。 sickness. Finally, Donne taunts death with a paradox: \death, thou shalt die.\ 　　The sonnet is written in the strict Petrarchan pattern. It reveals the poet\39。 cynicism about love coexist in Donne\39。s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, amp。 Sonnets were written in the early period. He wrote prose works mainly in the later period. His sermons, which are very famous, reveal his spiritual devotion to God as a passionate preacher. His works are classified as songs amp。 the fear of death. Although the imagery of metaphysical poetry is frequently strained, the language is often as natural amp。s poetry is precisely its tang of reality, in the sense that it seems to reflect life in a real rather than a poetical world. \Metaphysical Poetry\ is monly used to name the work of the 17thcentury writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellions spirit, the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan Love poetry. The diction is simple as pared with echoes the words amp。 Clergyman, born in London, England, 1572, and died in London, Mar. 31 1631. Donne is the leading figure of the 17thcentury \metaphysical school.\ His poems give a more inherently theatrical impression by exhibiting a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences amp。 how studies exert influence over human character. Forceful amp。 make their way in public life. Bacon\39。s mind amp。 held several high governmental positions during the reign of king JamesⅠ. He was one of the earliest amp。 the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves. 　　Imagery: a summer\39。 apprehension. 　　3) Language 　　In Shakespeare\39。 Cordelia in King Lear. His female characters also include the treacherous Goneril amp。 money. 　2) He was a humanist of the time amp。s sonnets have three quatrains, or groups of four lines, amp。 death. 　　　C. The Tempest The Tempest, an elaborate amp。 widow. This, Hamlet, is urged by the ghost to seek revenge for his father39。 searching philosophic melancholy. 　　The play opens with Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, appearing in a mood of worldweariness occasioned by his father39。 destiny. 4. 領會 His Major Works 1) Drama 　　　A. The Merchant of Venice Theme: to praise the friendship between Antonio amp。 stimulated by his achievement. On the whole, however, Shakespeare\39。s Tale 　　　The Tempest 　　　Henry Ⅷ 　　　The Two Noble Kinsmen 　　Shakespeare\39。 Part Ⅱ(1597) 　　　Henry V (1598) 　　　A Midsummer Night\39。 trust in Devil. Ⅲ. William Shakespeare 1. 一般識記 Brief Introduction 　　William Shakespeare was the greatest writer of plays who ever lived. His friend amp。 authority. 　3. 領會 His Achievements amp。 agony of a condemned man. 　The Jew of Malta (about 1589) illustrates Marlowe\39。 Leander, \the Passionate shepherd to His love,\ amp。 medieval legend, deals with the adventures of six knights of the court of the fairy queen named Gloriana, who represents Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ of English. 　 The faerie Queen was left unfinished at Spenser\39。 thought of Classical, medieval, amp。 the English nation. According to Spenser\39。 the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc. 　 　4. Metaphysical poetry: The term \metaphysical poetry\ is monly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellious spirit, the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. The diction is simple as pared with that of the Elizabethan or the Neoclassic periods, and echoes the words and cadences of mon speech. The imagery in drawn from the actual life. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet\39。 二、考核要求 　(一) 文藝復興時期概述 　　1. 識記：（1）文藝復興時期的界定 　　　　　　 （2）歷史文化背景 　　2. 領會: （1）文藝復興運動的意義與影響 　　　　　　 （2）文藝復興時期的文學特點 　　　　　　 （3）人文主義的主張及對文學的影響 　　3. 應用：文藝復興，人文主義及玄學詩等名詞的解釋 　Brief Introduction to the Renaissance Period 　I. 應用　 　Definitions of the Literary Terms: 　1. The Renaissance: The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14th amp。 the economic expansion. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers amp。s most important work amp。 Amoretti (1595), a series of sonnets. 　3. 領會 His Influence 　1) Main qualities of Spenser\39。his exquisite melody that make him known as \the poets\39。 ambitions. 　2. 識記 　His Major Works 　His most famous tragedies are Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine amp。 happiness。 rhetoric. 　Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious amp。s mighty line,\ as Ben Jonson called his blank verse, was one of the most important contributions to the art of English literature. 　4. 應用 Dr. Faustus 　The selection of ActⅠfrom Dr. Faustus is mainly about Faustus is showing his great ambition, that is, if he had many souls, he would give them all to the Devil so that he could control the world. In portraying Faustus, a more introspective amp。s Labor\39。 Cressida 　　　Coriolonus 　　　All\39。s works. 　 　2) Effects on literature Shakespeare\39。s capacity to depict life in all its plexity amp。s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a bloodandthunder thriller amp。s ghost, Hamlet is informed that Claudius has murdered his father amp。s death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact amp。s patron. The poems express the writer\39。 fame, is a conventional Elizabethan narrative poem. Its mythological story, taken from Ovids Metamorphoses, tells of the passionate love goddess who woos the reluctant youth Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece, another narrative of passion, is based on the semi historical story of the rape of a chaste Roman matron by Tarquin, son of the king of Rome. 　5. 領會 His Major Theme 　1) Shakespeare is against religious persecution amp。s Lost, amp。s plays are well known for their adroit plot construction. 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