【正文】 Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet,Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter,Yet she Will be False, ere I e, to two, or three.Questions for this “song”1. what is the tone of this poem? And what is the speaker’s attitude towards women? is the language style of this poem?3.. what is the theme of this poem?4. In what way does this poem differentiate from the poem we discussed before?Literature of the Revolution and Restoration periodJohn Milton (16081674)I. Life 1. born in a Puritan family in which old Milton tutored his son in Italian, French, music and other subjects.2. Studied in Cambridge, Milton acquired a mastery of Latin. bee Latin Secretary of the Government for his staunch support of the revolution.II. Career1. born in a period of tremendous social upheavals, Milton, the most learned poet in English literature, defended the Commonwealth with his pamphlets.2. After restoration, he still calls for the fight and revolution with his masterpiece “Paradise Lost”, an epic of 12 books, written in blank verse.Masterpiece: Paradise Lost ? Story (retell)? Notes (line105124):? 1. what though: what if, what’s the matter? is not lost: not all is lost? : plan? : great anger? : glory,favour? late: recently? : authority? : humiliation? : worse than? 10. fail：perish? 11. in arms：in force? 12. Give in ,surrenderThe image of Satan（to analyze）Term:Blank verse: it’s the unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Blank verse is a very flexible English verse form which can attain rhetorical grandeur while echoing the natural rhythms of speech and allowing smooth enjambment. First used by Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, it soon bee both standard meter for dramatic poetry and a widely used form for narrative and meditative poems, and then bee an important medium for poetic drama.Early poems, pamphlets, and sonnetsSamson Agonists (To simply narrate)Milton’s achievements (to briefly summarize and interprete)。 following points can be helpful for the understanding of his poems: (1) his poems are characterized by mysticism in content and strangeness in form。2. Novum Organum (New Instrument) : a treatise to introduce the inductive method, that is, inductive reasoning. This method of inductive reasoning through analysis and experiment showed the correct direction of modern science in Bacon’s day. Metaphysical PoetsJohn DonneI. Donne the man1. He was brought up as a Catholic(天主教徒)；2. Being a Catholic, he could not obtain the degree from Cambridge Universityand Oxford University in which he majored in law。）III. the founder of materialism in philosophy and modern science1. The Advancement of Learning(學(xué)術(shù)的進(jìn)展)：in this book, he classifies all knowledge into two kinds: (1)knowledge acquired by divine revelation。? 8. the function of different sujects。? reading method for different books。? 4. different men’s attitudes toward studies。3. During the reign of James I, he was continuously promoted and became Lord Chancellor. 1621,he was charged with bribery, and then was deprived of his office and imprisoned in London Tower. Later, he was released. Then, he devoted all his time to literary and philosophical work. II. Bacon the essayist1. under the influence of French writer Montaigne, Bacon posed 58 essays, which were collected into one collection. 2. These essays are pieces of author’s reflections and ments on rather abstract subjects (such as “l(fā)ove” or “beauty” or “riches, etc. )★3. These essays are: landmark in the development of English prose and the first collection of essays of English language.★ 4. he was considered the first English essayist for his concise, brief, simple and forceful essays.Of studie