英国文学Robert Burns 罗伯特伯恩斯作者及作品介绍ppt课件.ppt
Robert Burns,Dec. 16, 2016,Contents,1,2,3,Life experience,Writings,Influence & Honors,Life experience,Robert Burns (17591796),1781-1782,1786,Irvine(欧文, 加州): flax-dresser 亚麻整理工Captain Richard Brown,Alloway(阿洛韦), ScotlandEducation(1774)Age 15: principal laborer,financial difficulties, JamaicaJohn WilsonPoems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Kilmarnock volume/edition 基尔马诺克卷),1794,1789,Dumfriesshire 邓弗里斯郡Jean Armour,Patriotic: Dumfriesshire VolunteerslyricistScottish folk songs,Edinburgh: James Johnsonold Scots songsThe Scots Musical Museum12 years,the French Revolutionoutspoken champion of the Republican cause 共和事业,Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youththe rheumatic heart disease 风湿性心脏病at the age of 37,July 21, 1796,Writings,Written in Scotch dialect,Usage of traditional elements of folk songs in Scotland: simplicity, pathos and humor,Immortalize the Scottish countryside and humble farm life and satirized the sham and cruelty of ruling class,Features of Burns Poetry,Glorify natural man,啊，我爱人象红红的玫瑰，在六月里苞放；啊，我爱人象一支乐曲，乐声美妙、悠扬。你那么美，漂亮的姑娘，我爱你那么深切；我会永远爱你，亲爱的，一直到四海涸竭。直到四海涸竭，亲爱的，直到太阳把岩石消熔！我会永远爱你，亲爱的，只要生命无穷。再见吧，我唯一的爱人，再见吧，小别片刻！我会回来的，我的爱人，即使万里相隔！,A Red, Red Rose,O, my luve is like a red, red rose, Thats newly sprung in June.O, my luve is like the melodie, Thats sweetly playd in tune.As fair art thou , my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I,And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas gang dry.Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun!And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel, a while!And I will come again, my luve, Tho it were ten thousand mile!,一朵红红的玫瑰,How dose the narrator in the love song express his love?Using many figures of speeches: simile, metaphor, repetition, hyperbole, personification.,Question 1,Question 2,Why is this poem so touching to the readers? 1) original flavor in fiery and direct expression: directly passionate 2) artistic recreation; imagery presentation: newly sprung rose/ sweetly played melody 3) in repetition to stir an echoing effect,汉乐府诗,汉乐府诗上邪出自铙歌18首之一，作者不详。汉乐府诗中有关爱情、婚姻题材的作品多出自民间或下层文人之手，在表达男女之间的爱与恨时都大胆、泼辣。,Burns features,His great success was largely due to his comprehensive knowledge and excellent mastery of the old song traditions. His poetry have a musical quality that helps to perpetuate the sentiment. Burns ushered a tendency that prevailed during the high time of Romanticism: To introduce daily expressions into poetic diction; To pick up the life of common people as poetic subjects and show great sympathy.,Influence & Honors,Britain,A proto-Romantic poet.William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalize Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a heaven-taught ploughman. Influenced later Scottish writers. Esp. Hugh MacDiarmid, who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominated Scottish literature.,Canada,Scottish Canadians have embraced Robert Burns as a kind of patron poet and mark his birthday with festivities. Robbie Burns Day is celebrated from Newfoundland and Labrador to Nanaimo.Simon Fraser Universitys Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns poetry.Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a hybrid of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day, celebrated in Vancouver since the late 1990s,United States,Title of novelist John Steinbecks 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of To a Mouse. American vernacular poets: James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton.Singer songwriter Bob Dylan: selected Burnss 1794 song A Red, Red Rose as the lyric & had the biggest effect on his life.,United States,The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfields misinterpretation of Burns s poem Comin Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of Caulfields grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.,Elevated as the archetypal poet of the people.Expressed his own egalitarianism in poems such as his Birthday Ode for George Washington or his Is There for Honest Poverty”Well placed for endorsement by theCommunistregime as a progressive artist.,A source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Russian people.,Remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.,Soviet Russia,Burns became the peoples poet of Russia.,Russia,Statue,Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882,Burns statue inTreasury Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,Burns Monument in Dorchester square,Montral, Qubec,Stamps & currency,Burns stamp,USSR1956,The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honor Burns with a commemorative stamp, marking the 160th anniversary of his death in 1956.Burns was pictured on theClydesdale Bank5 note from 1971 to 2009.,In 1996, a musical about Burns s life calledA Red Red Rosewon third place at a competition for new musicals in Denmark.,On 25 January 2008, a musical play about the love affair between Robert Burns and Nancy McLehose entitledClarindapremiered in Edinburgh before touring Scotland,Musical tribute,In 2009,STVran a television series and public vote on who was The Greatest Scot of all time. Robert Burns won, narrowly beatingWilliam Wallace.,Greatest Scot,Thank You,
