literarycriticismintroduction

literarycriticismintroduction内容摘要：

mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing Text amp。 Context Example I: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” 3. The parodies – what do they convey? “The Wordsworths” – 1) Their toiling through the countryside revealed。 2) Wordsworth‟s appropriation of the flowers。 Stop bothering us! Daffodil Poems “The New, Fast, Automatic Daffodils” Lines from the original poem juxtaposed with mercial language, so that “the free spirits” of the original gets to be made possible only by the machine and money. . vacant and pensive mood calculative。 The bliss of solitude or romance Text Example II: “She Walks in Beauty”  Questions for close analysis:  1. What are the similes and images used to describe this lady?  2. How is the lady characterized and described? How do the sound effects (. open vowels, r l and m sounds) help convey the meanings?  3. Does the fact that the actual lady is in mourning and is Byron39。 s cousin affect your picture of her? Text Example II: “She Walks in Beauty”  1. The lady is pared to and associated with skies, light and night.  2. Although her eyes, cheeks, dress and her walk are described, they actually show her mellowness, grace and inner beauty, all of which supported by the long sentences (some enjambed lines) and mellifluous sounds.  3. Meter: iambic, occasional trochaic feet („meet‟ in line 4) and some spondaic (. “One shade more, one ray less. . . “) Context: Byron’s Life  A clip  Byron was a victim of his own contradictory personality he loved to pursue women but, once captured, he longed to leave them. Paradoxically, he could not rest easy without their plete adoration.  . Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb – 1. . . . became lovers and, through much of April and May 1812, shocked London with their affair. Byron had wooed her passionately for two months and then ignored her. 2. 1812 He also told her to go to Ireland [to join her husband] for both their sakes. She did so however unwillingly。 but this was the effective end of their relationship. But they continued to write, perhaps because he feared another hysterical outburst. 3. 1813 He tried to avoid her at all cost. (source: ) Context: Byron’s Life  The poem‟s immediate context –  One evening [James Wedderburn] Webster dragged him against his will to a party at Lady Sitwell39。 s, where they saw Byron39。 s cousin, the beautiful Mrs. Wilmot, in mourning with spangles on her dress. The next day he wrote a gemlike lyric about her.  Does the poem present a pure love for a pure woman? Or Byron‟s bold assumption of knowing her pletel。