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classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brough me homeTo the beauty of fair Greece,And the grandeur of old Rome.Lo! In that little windownicheHow statuelike I see thee stand!The folded scroll within thy handA Psyche from the regions whichAre Holy Land!題目:To Helen作者:Edgar Allan Poe賞析:1. Theme: celebrate the nurturing power of women—Helen’s beauty is soothing and provide safety amp。 security.2. Create the image amp。 impression of the idealized amp。 unreal woman。 3. Represent beauty, melancholy. Though heart desired, inaccessible.4. Allusion, assonance, consonance, repetition5. Ababb/ababa/abbab6. Naiad= goddess。 Psyche= goddess of the soul八Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real—life is earnest—And the grave is not its goal:Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.題目:A Psalm of Like作者:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow賞析:Optimism九ONE’SSELF I sing—a simple, separate Person。 Yet utter the word Democratic, the word Enmasse. Of Physiology from top to toe I sing。 Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse—I say the Form plete is worthier far。 The Female equally with the male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful—for freest action form’d, under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing題目: One’s Self I Sing作者:Walt Whitman賞析:en masse, democratic, individualism, humanity, political equality of male and female十To make a prairie it takes a clover and a bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few題目: To Make a Prairie …作者:Emily Dickinson賞析:Without any physical objects at all, the mind of one advanced in the art of revery can produce any object that mind desires.十一The Fog es,On Little cat feetIt sits lookingOver harbour and cityOn silent haunches,And then moves on題目:Fog作者:Carl Sandburg賞析:1. Chicago Poems, 第56首。2. Imagery: cat amp。 fog3. Juxtaposition十二The apparition of these faces in the crowd。Petals on a wet, black bough.題目:In a Station of the Metro作者:Ezra Pound賞析:1. Imagism2. Petal= beautiful faces in the crowd waiting for the trainBough=subway station十三Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of fire.I hold with those favour fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also great and would suffice.題目:Fire and Ice作者:Robert Frost賞析:1. Fire= human desiresIce= hatred between people2. Desires are more dangerous than hatred. But he admits that hatred is also very destructive.Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though。He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flakeThe woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.題目:Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening作者:Robert Frost賞析:1. One of his most wellknown poems. New Hamshipre.2. iambic tetrameter3. Rubaiyat stanza, 4. rhyming shceme: aaba/bbcb/ccdc/dddd5. chain rhyme