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1、 Key WordsWhole lifeThe Poet Laureate and other honoursMajor worksThe writing style & ContributionsLake PoetsA slumber did my spirit sealOur Comments第1頁/共22頁第一頁，共23頁。William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in a fine Georgian house in Cockermouth, now called Wordsworth House.The garden at the

2、 back, with the River Derwent flowing past, was a place of magic and adventure for the young William1770 - 1779第2頁/共22頁第二頁，共23頁。1779 - 1797From 1779 until 1787 William attended the Grammar School in Hawkshead, lodging with Ann Tyson initially, then with his brothers.He then went to St Johns College

3、Cambridge In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.From 1795 to 1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers, a verse tragedy during the reign of King Henry III of England第3頁/共22頁第三頁，共23頁。During

4、the harsh winter of 1798, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude.He wrote a number of famous poems, including The Lucy poems. In 1850 William caught a cold on a country walk, and he died on 23 April, St Georges day, 80 years after his birth.1798-1850第4頁/共22頁第四頁，共23頁。Marr

5、iage and children Married four times:1.Isabella Curwen (d. 1848) had six children: Jane, Henry, William, John, Charles and Edward.2.Helen Ross (d. 1854). No children3.Mary Ann Dolan (d. after 1858) had one daughter Dora (b.1858).4.Mary Gamble. No children第5頁/共22頁第五頁，共23頁。Wordsworth received an honor

6、ary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham Universityand the same honour from Oxford University the next year.With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel ass

7、ured him you shall have nothing required of youhe became the only laureate to write no official poetryThe Poet Laureate and other honours第6頁/共22頁第六頁，共23頁。Major worksLyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) We are Seven Lines Written in Early Spring Expostulation and Reply Lines Composed A Few

8、Miles above Tintern AbbeyLyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Strange fits of passion have I known She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways第7頁/共22頁第七頁，共23頁。Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) Ode: Intimations of Immortality Ode to Duty The World Is Too Much with Us Guide to the

9、 Lakes (1810) The Excursion (1814) Laodamia (1815, 1845) The Prelude (1850)第8頁/共22頁第八頁，共23頁。The writing style 1) Influenced from the spirit of the French Revolution.2) Theme: broke with tradition, seeking his subjects in the small happenings of country life and the talk of countrymen, children, and

10、doings and feelings of humble people, and emotion from his inner heart.3) Language: He stuck to emphasizing the purest by simplest words.4) Wordsworth thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest. 5) Wordsworth see the word freshly, sympathetically and naturally.第9頁/共22頁第九頁，共23頁。

11、Contributions1) He is the representative poet of passive Romanticism.2) He emphasized the liberating aesthetic.3) The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using or

12、dinary speech of the language and by advocating a reform to nature.第10頁/共22頁第十頁，共23頁。Lake PoetsThe Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single school of thought or literary practice t

13、hen known, although their works were uniformly disparaged by the Edinburgh Review. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement.The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey第11頁/共22頁第十一頁，共23頁。A slumber did

14、 my spirit seal;I had no human fears:She seemed a thing that could not feelThe touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force;She neither hears nor sees;Rolled round in earths diurnal courseWith rocks, and stones, and trees.A slumber did my spirit seal第12頁/共22頁第十二頁，共23頁?；璩恋乃饷杀瘟宋业男撵` 顧子欣 譯昏沉

15、的睡意蒙蔽了我的心靈；我不必再有何擔(dān)驚：她已對一切失去了感覺，又何懼歲月的侵凌。她已全無生息，一動不動，既不能看也不能動；但她跟著大地在晝夜運轉(zhuǎn)，連同山巖(shn yn)，連同樹林。第13頁/共22頁第十三頁，共23頁。This is Lucy in addition the shortest a, only two, but the lyric that is very intense, can be said to be around a moment on the strong feelings. First read this poem first impression is stil

16、l uncarved even is black and white concise and straightforward, such as regular ring musical sound, a single syllable words, less able to ignore the adjective. But just as most of the psalm Wordsworth, this poem is not in the place of moving and the choiceness of flowery language. But even in terms

17、of simple lines, we can still find some ambiguous place, including different imagery of the combination, between two paragraphs contrast and so on. Maybe, in the poet calm narrative, his heart and not so easily accept Lucys death, it has other more complex, more meaningful response. 第14頁/共22頁第十四頁，共2

18、3頁。In the first quarter, the poet got into the world of fantasy. He is as if in a dream for all the lost around feeling, especially deep buried in every one of the heart of the fear of death. Lucy, has also become a kind of the existence of god as, can neither perception, also cannot touch, the more

19、 not years by erosion. Just this in his mind that the giddy drowsiness this do why? Is according to literally, the truth themselves into a state of space travel; Or through the parable that has to Lucys death accept? I think, should be both it. Also, seal a word, can understand into escape from real

20、ity, isolated, also can saying is get the direction, with a deep, philosophy of calm to accept death type, make oneself in shock and fear have salvation. 第15頁/共22頁第十五頁，共23頁。In the second quarter, the poet outspoken was about Lucy current state: nothing all sat silently, both neither can listen to al

21、so cant see this and the external world of isolation for Wordsworth speaking is undoubtedly painful, because he is always so spare no effort to explore the emotional on the outside of subtle perception and reaction this or like a reminder, remind readers of the boundaries between birth and death is

22、so obvious and insurmountable: Lucys energetic still remember lively and lovely, but are now more than just a tombstone, as the rocks and general hill, cold silence but, because of this, the poet also realized that life and death are not completely opposite despite losing the so-called perception, n

23、ow of Lucy but by a more powerful force nature dominates, follow the working day and night, really reached the unity of nature environment第16頁/共22頁第十六頁，共23頁。Through the death, Lucy by people into the thing, but she is not an inanimate object, but the nature of the object, or is it part of the creato

24、r. In Lucy addition several other first, the poet often compare her to natural thing, such as delicate and charming rose, bright moonlight, vale of orchids. But only in the poem, in death, she was the real meaning become part of nature, along with a rock the woods, follow the earth constant rule. Th

25、rough these specific becomes to notice the distinctness of things rather than abstract therefore term, further this close ties.第17頁/共22頁第十七頁，共23頁。Our Comments第18頁/共22頁第十八頁，共23頁。The writer had no human fears which implies that he did not fear what humans feared, which is death. The next two lines describe her condition. She can no longer age because she is now dead. But the word earthly implies that she can no longer feel the touch of nature aging. The use of the word earthly also uncovers the mourners view of death as being merely a part o