2015年10月30日 星期五

美國文學week7



·        Detach(de-away from)
·    entreaty
encourage
empower

·     temperance
·    electoral college
·     Indian summer

·    thermometer
      barometer

·  Robert Frost
Jeanie with Light
Brown hair(song)

·    evaporation
evaluation
evacuation

·    Rip Van Winkle
inhabitant

·    Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven

At a keenly analytical critics
didactic
·   The Philosophy of Composition

·   alliteration: beginning, first consonant
·   sepulcher
·    elegy
narrative lyric
ballad: narrative set to music.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci



2015年10月24日 星期六

美國文學week6

·      magn-
    magnificent
    magnifying class

·  The Scarlet Letter

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
dimm’d

Arthur Dimmesdale
Chilling worth
Be exposed to public humiliation

·  Statesman
Paradoxical

·  My Kinsman--> political, religious allegory
·   Araby
epiphany(holiday) The King’s day
visit of magi to Christ child

·    Twelfth night
coming of age

·    Man-hand
manuscript
manufacture

·    Paradox
Paradoxical

·    Pearl is even as a reminder of Hester’s sin.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the most valuable example of American genius, expressing the widely held belief that he was the most significant fiction writer of the antebellum period.

·    Puritan
Puritan allegory
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Salem custom House

adultery
patriarchal culture

·     Liverpool
an industrious consul
concord home
democrat

·    Youth of barely of the stranger’s figure
Robin-ferryman

·    I pray you to tell me whereabouts is the dwelling of my kinsman, Major Molineux?

·     Strange things we travellers see!

·     Will you recognize your kinsman, Robin, if he passes in this crowd? inquired the gentleman.

·         I can’t warrant it.
·         double-faced


2015年10月16日 星期五

美國文學week5

Week5
·         I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
·         Paramount pictures/ Walden media/ TKEC/ Nickelodeon Movies (youtube)
·         Could you spare some minutes for me?
·         P933.
The life in us is like the water in the river.
·         Herbivore <-> omnivore
Omni-power
carnivore
omnipotent
Omniscient

·         Theme/ motifs
·         Symbols:
·         Seclude
Conclude
Include

Separate
Select
Seclusive
·         St. Francis of Assis (picture)
·         St. Christoopher (picture)
Venerated
worship
Walden pond (symbol)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
·         Important quotation (sparknote)
3.
5.
Zanzibar
The great Gatsby
“ so we beat on boats against the current borne ceaselessly into the past.”

Segregate <-> interrogate

   Could you text me?

Pro- in favor of
Prolific
Protagonist
Propaganda (不算文學)
·         Accurately
Wrangling, twist
Exploit (n.)
Exportations
People(s) 種族
The biblical job “ whirlwind”
Job (the most righteous person on earth)
“ Angel in the whirlwind”
reconcile
reconciliation
rational
rattle
predesting
enable
diverse <-> universe

immigrant
accountant
competent

enlighten

conviction
belief

bene-good
male/ mli- bad
benevolent
malicious
maleficence (movie)

English Eliet Geroge
Periodical

advantage
adventure
advance

manufactory
manual
manipulate
manicure

manifest destiny
Time is money! (youtube)
The penny saved, the penny earned.

Deists
Destined to

Andrew Jackson
Territorial expansion

P169. Transcendentalism