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课外补充材料--惠特曼和迪金森的诗 本文简介：WhenIHeardtheLearn’dAstronomerByWaltWhitman(1865)WhenIheardthelearn’dastronomer,Whentheproofs,thefigures,wererangedincolumnsbeforeme,WhenIwasshownthec
课外补充材料--惠特曼和迪金森的诗 本文内容：
When
I
Heard
the
Learn’d
Astronomer
By
Walt
Whitman
(1865)
When
I
heard
the
learn’d
astronomer,When
the
proofs,the
figures,were
ranged
in
columns
before
me,When
I
was
shown
the
charts,the
diagrams,to
add,divide,and
measure
them,When
I
sitting
heard
the
learned
astronomer
where
he
lectured
with
much
applause
in
the
lecture
room,How
soon
unaccountable
I
became
tired
and
sick,Till
rising
and
gliding
out
I
wander’d
off
by
myself
In
the
mystical
moist
night-air,and
from
time
to
time,Look’d
up
in
perfect
silence
at
the
stars.
Questions:
1.
What’s
the
contrast
between
“I”
and
the
astronomer?
2.
In
the
first
part
of
the
poem,sentences
are
quite
long.
What’s
your
impression
on
this?
3.
What’s
the
contrast
between
the
first
part
and
the
second
part
of
the
poem?
4.
What
does
the
poet
say
on
nature
and
science
in
this
poem?
What
kind
of
message
is
conveyed
in
this
poem?
Poem
328,Emily
Dickinson
A
Bird
came
down
the
Walk—
He
did
not
know
I
saw—
He
bit
an
Angleworm
in
halves
And
eat
the
fellow,raw,And
then
he
drank
a
Dew
From
a
convenient
Grass—
And
then
hopped
sidewise
to
the
Wall
To
let
a
Beetle
pass—
He
glanced
with
rapid
eyes
That
hurried
all
around—
They
looked
like
frightened
Beads,I
thought—
He
stirred
his
Velvet
Head
Like
one
in
danger,Cautious,I
offered
him
a
Crumb
And
he
unrolled
his
feathers
And
rowed
him
softer
home—
Than
Oars
divide
the
Ocean,Too
silver
for
a
seam—
Or
Butterflies,off
Banks
of
Noon
Leap,plashless
as
they
swim.
--
Question:
understand
the
last
two
stanzas.
Poem
449,Emily
Dickinson
I
died
for
beauty—but
was
scarce
Adjusted
in
the
Tomb
When
One
who
died
for
Truth,was
lain
In
an
adjoining
Room
—
He
questioned
softly
“Why
I
failed’?
“For
beauty”,I
replied—
“And
I—for
Truth—Themselves
are
One—
We
Brethren
are”,He
said—
And
so,as
Kinsmen,met
a
Night
—
We
talked
between
the
Rooms—
Until
the
Moss
had
reached
our
lips
—
And
covered
up—our
names—
--
beauty
and
truth
a
scene
that
is,by
turns,grotesque
and
compelling,frightening
and
comforting;
Questions:
What
does
it
mean
when
you
die
for
something?
Are
they
(the
dead
people)
special
in
anything?
Is
it
important
or
a
waste
of
life
if
a
person
dies
for
something?
Does
it
make
any
difference?
Poem
1732,Emily
Dickinson
My
life
closed
twice
before
its
close;
It
yet
remains
to
see
If
Immortality
unveil
A
third
event
to
me,So
huge,so
hopeless
to
conceive
As
these
that
twice
befell.
Parting
is
all
we
know
of
heaven,And
all
we
need
of
hell.
(all
we
need
to
know
of
hell)
--
没有离别就不懂得团圆的幸福，
而离别的痛苦犹如地狱的煎熬。
American
Romanticism
reached
its
peak
with
the
appearance
of
the
major
authors
of
the
19th
century
such
as
Edgar
Allan
Poe,Walt
Whitman
and
Emily
Dickinson
in
poetry,and
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
and
Herman
Melville
in
fiction.
(High
Romantics)
new
literary
personalities,They
established
firm
ground
for
their
art
in
well-conceived
literary
theories
and
well-structured
literary
forms.