1、1/21,The Literary Achievements of Emily Dickinson,2020/9/21,小組成員： 周澤 趙云 宋璇 曹如玉 潘晨燕,2/21,Content,Life Experiences Pictures Works of Emily Dickson Themes of Dickinsons works Features of Dickinsons works Influence,2020/9/21,3/21,Life Experiences (1830 - 1886),*One of Americas most famous poets in Amher

2、st, Massachusetts *She was born in a prominent family, the second daughter *She attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. (曼荷蓮女子學院) *1850s: In her twenties, Emily led a certain social life, but she became more reclusive(隱居的)with each passing year.,2020/9/21,4/21,Life Experiences (1

3、830 - 1886),* 1860s: By her thirties, she stayed at home and withdrew when visitors arrived with a reputation as a myth. When people did catch sight of her, she was always wearing white. * On June 14, 1884: she suffered the first attack of her terminal illness. * On May 15, 1886: Emily took her last

4、 breath at the age of 56 and she never got married.,2020/9/21,5/21,2020/9/21,Pictures,6/21,2020/9/21,7/21,Themes,religion doubt and belief about religious subjects death and immortality lovesuffering and frustration caused by love physical aspect of desire nature kind and cruel free will and human r

5、esponsibility,2020/9/21,8/21,Features of Dickinsons works:,telling images, suggestive and connotative(含蓄的), sometimes incomprehensible a severe economy of expression direct and plain words, simple syntax(句法) faulty grammar no regular rhythm unusual capitalization without titles unusual use of punctu

6、ation marks figures of speech: personification make some of abstract ideas vivid,2020/9/21,9/21,Influence,Emily Dickinson is now considered as a powerful and persistent figure in American culture. Although much of the early reception concentrated on Dickinsons eccentric(古怪的) and secluded(隱居的) nature

7、, she has become widely acknowledged as an innovative(創(chuàng)新的), pre-modernist(后現(xiàn)代主義) poet. Emily Dickinsons life and works have been the source of inspiration particularly to feminist orientated artists of a variety of mediums.,2020/9/21,10/21,Influence,She has been acclaimed as a poet of genuinely phil

8、osophical(真正的哲學) and tragic dimensions(尺寸，維度), a poet who was acutely responsive to the challenging questions of the nature and meaning of human consciousness in her ceaseless exploration of human origins, conditions, relations, and fate.,2020/9/21,11/21,Questions on pages 92,Who is speaking in the

9、poem? “I” What is the speaker doing? The speaker was dying. What does the “King” in the second stanza refer to? The “king” represents a belief in religion.,2020/9/21,12/21,Questions on pages 92,What is the “l(fā)ight” mentioned in the last stanza? And the “windows”? The “l(fā)ight” symbolize the hope of lif

10、e; the “windows” symbolize the connection between the truly world and heaven. Do the two “see” s mean the same thing in the last line? If not, what do they mean respectively? No. the first “see” means being aware of (sb/sth) by using the eyes. The second “see” means a kind of ability, the sense of e

11、yes. Do you think the speaker really hears a fly od it is merely a hallucination? What might the fly stand for? It is merely a hallucination. (幻覺)The fly is the central figure representing the oncoming of death. It also symbolize the last touch with the human world.,2020/9/21,13/21,Questions on page

12、s 94-95,Death is the major theme of Dickinsons poems. What is the attitude of the poetess towards death in this poem? How does this poem deal with the subject of death? The poem is about death, a very gloomy subject, but it is done with a rather light tone. The tone is light just because the author

13、does not take death as a catastrophe; instead, she treats the angel of death as a very polite gentleman, as long-missing guest. Can you discover the poetess uncertainty in the attitudes towards death? Yes. In the stanza 1-2, the poetess treat death as a kind friend or merely a another beginning of a

14、 journey. However, the poetess showed her pessimistic sense in stanza 4, like the dews, quivering and chill.,2020/9/21,14/21,Questions on pages 94-95,Dashes and capitals are obviously used in Dickinsons poems. What are the functions of the dashes and the capitals in this poem? Dashes: to pause the p

15、oem and leave the space to think over; to attract readers attention to the poets way to eternity; to imply that the poem is never ending, just as the eternity is never ending. Capitals: They will certainly stand out in front of readers eyes repeatedly and let them pause to consider the world rather

16、than breezing through the poem. Do you think “immortality” and “eternity” are the same abstraction? No. “Immortality” means the state of living forever (Here it is also personified); immortality appears in the same carriage with death and the poetess. “Eternal” emphasize the long- living of our soul

17、 or spiritual world.,2020/9/21,15/21,Cite examples from Because I could not stop for Death,Personification Alliteration Metaphor Capitalization The use of dashes,2020/9/21,16/21,Personification,2020/9/21,17/21,Alliteration,Labor & Leisure Gazing & Grain Dews & Drew Tippet & Tulle Recess & Ring Setti

18、ng & Sun Gossamer & Gown Horse & Head,2020/9/21,18/21,Metaphor,The children,The cycle of life,The Carriage ride,Young ages,The gazing grain,Productive years of life,The setting sun,The end of the day(life),2020/9/21,19/21,Capitalization,Fly, Stillness, Air, Heaves, Storms, Eyes, Breaths, Onset, Room, Blue, Signed, Window, etc,2020/9/21,20/21,The use of dashes,BecauseIcouldn