【正文】 ? Though as for that the passing there? Had worn them really about the same,? And both that morning equally lay? In leaves no step had trodden black.? Oh, I kept the first for another day!? Yet knowing how way leads on to way,? I doubted if I should ever e back.?? I shall be telling this with a sigh? Somewhere ages and ages hence:? Two roads diverged in a wood, and I? I took the one less traveled by,? And that has made all the difference. (191Walt Whitman 沃爾特 惠特曼 One’s Self I Sing 我歌唱自我 O Captain! My Captain! 噢，船長！我的船長！Emily Dickinson 埃米莉 狄金森 I’m Nobody! 我是無名之輩?。 人群中幽然浮現(xiàn)的一張張臉龐， Petals on a wet, black bough. 黝黑的濕樹枝上的一片片花瓣 does the poet call the faces of pedestrians”apparition”?The apparition of these faces gives us the idea that they are cold, care nothing but themselves. Hanging around, but do nothing good to the society. 2. What do “petals ”and “bough” stand for?The “petals” are the faces. The black “bough” resembles the long, dark train.Robert Frost羅伯特 弗羅斯特 The Road Not Taken未選擇的路 ? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,? And sorry I could not travel both? And be one traveler, long I stood? And looked down one as far as I could?? To where it bent in the undergrowth。regeneration at Walden.It also means a symbol of his conquest of being. could you answer the question Thoreau asked at the end of this selection?? Why did he move onto Walden Pond on July 4, the Independence Day?? It illustrates his desire to be independent and find truth for himself.? What did he live for?? Simply, he lived for freedom, enjoyment, spiritual perfection.? what’s the tone？? It exhibits his calm trust in the future and his ardent belief in a new generation of men. The book concludes on a clear note of optimism and hope.The Great Gatsby偉大的蓋茨比 F Henry David Thoreau 亨利 大衛(wèi) 梭羅Questions : indeed did Thoreau live, both at a physical level and at a spiritual level?One refers to the concrete place he lives in the real world. In this sense, he lived the shore of the Walden pond. Another is in spiritual sense, he lived nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted him. He lived a life far from noise and disturbance, from the life which he had left behind. Thoreau ever bought a farm? Why did he enjoy the act of buying?No, he hadn’t. He avoided purchasing a farm because it would inevitably tie him down financially and plicate his life. Thoreau didn’t see the acquisition of wealth as the goal for human existence, he saw the goal of life to be an exploration of the mind and of the magnificent world around us. He regarded the places as an existence free of obligations and full of leisure. it significant that Thoreau mentioned the Fourth of July as the day on which he began to stay in the woods? Why?Yes, it The Fourth of July is known as Independence Day,the birthday ot the United States.Here Thoreau uses the day to express his beginning of171。 for his tale, he says, it will provide either a “sweet moral blossom” or else some relief in the face of unrelenting sorrow and gloom. the appearance of Hester Prynne and the attitude of the people towards her.The second paragraph on page 30.The crowd in front of the jail is a mixture of men and women, all maintaining severe looks of disapproval. Several of the women begin to discuss Hester Prynne, and they soon vow that Hester would not have received such a light sentence for her crime if they had been the judges. One woman, the ugliest of the group, goes so far as to advocate death for Hester. has happened to Hester? As a young woman, Hester married an elderly scholar, Chillingworth, who sent her ahead to America to live. While waiting for him, she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, after which she gave birth to Pearl. The scarlet letter is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy