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1、(完整版)英美文学期末Summary 4 of English LiteratureSummary 4 of English Literature Chapter Six The Modern PeriodBackground Information: In the second half of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, both natural and social sciences in Europe had enormously advanced. The two world wars dest
2、royed peoples faith in the Victorian values and gave rise to all kinds of philosophical ideas in Western Europe. Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. It began with the French Symbolism in the late 19th century。 Towards the 1920s, different literary trends of modernism conv
3、erged into a mighty torrent of modernist movement. Major figures associated with this movement were Kafka, Picasso, Pound, Eliot, Joyce and Virginia Woolf. After the Second World War, a variety of modernism, or post-modernism, like existentialist literature, theater of the absurd, new novels and bla
4、ck humor, rose with the spur of the existentialist idea that “the world was absurd, and the human life was an agony。 Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psychoanalysis as its theoretical base。 The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill r
5、elationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. Modernism, is in many respects, a reaction against realism. Drama in the Modern Period The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest) and
6、George Bernard Shaw, who pioneered the modern drama. Shaw is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, whose works are examples of the play inspired by social criticism. His representative works are Widowers Houses鳏夫之家, Mrs. Warrens Profession华伦夫人的职业 and Heartbreak House伤心
7、之屋。Poetry in The Modern Period The 20th century witnessed a great achievement in English poetry. The early poems of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot and Yeats matured poetry marked the rise of “modern poetry,” which was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Victorian
8、poetry。 William Butler Yeats威廉巴特勒叶芝(18651939) Irish poet and dramatist, the central poet of modern literature His fame rests chiefly with his shorter poems and lyrics. T。S. Eliot considered him to be the greatest Englishspeaking poet of his age. The three major concerns of his life - art, Irish nati
9、onalism and occult studies are all central to his poetry and drama. Representative poems: The Lake Isle of Innisfree “茵尼斯弗利岛” Sailing to Byzantium “驶向拜占庭” Leda and the Swan:“丽达与天鹅Irish National Theater Movement With their joint efforts, the Irish playwrights like W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J.M。 S
10、ynge brought about the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century, thus starting an Irish dramatic revival。 Yeats was the leader of this movement。 To write about Ireland for an Irish audience and to recreate a specifically Irish literature-these were the aims that Yeats was fighting f
11、or as a poet and a playwright。Summary of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree:The twelve-line poem is divided into three quatrains with a rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef。 It is an example of Yeatss earlier lyric poems. The short poem explores the speakers longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree while
12、 residing in an urban setting。 It is typically a pastoral poem。Yeats used sounds found in nature (bees, crickets, and water lapping) to make Innisfree appear to be peaceful and tranquil。 There is a pause in the middle of the first three lines of every stanza; Yeats does this to slow the reader down,
13、 so that they can feel the calm that his lines are expressing. Alliteration is also used in this poem (cabin, clay; glimmer, glow). He described where the peace comes from through several visual and aural images, like“the veils of the morning”, “purple glow and “the cricket sings。”He can escape the
14、noise of the city and be lulled by the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore。 On this small island, he can return to nature by growing beans and having bee hives, by enjoying the ”purple glow of noon, the sounds of birds wings, and, of course, the bees。 He can even build a cabin and stay o
15、n the island much as Thoreau, the American Transcendentalist, lived on Walden Pond.T。S。 Eliot 艾略特 (18881965) one of the most important modernist poets, verse dramatists and prose writers Eliots most important single poem The Waste Land has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20thcentury Eng
16、lish poetry. It is often regarded as being primarily a reflection of the 20thcentury peoples disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society. Representative works: Murder in the Cathedral教堂里的谋杀案 Tradition and Individual Talent传统与个人天才 Prufrock and Other Observations普鲁弗洛克与其它情况 The Wast
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