青少年小說week 10

4/30  Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

·         I won’t buy that credo. 我是不會去甩他的。

Incredible (adj.) If you say that something is incredible, you mean that it is very unusual or surprising, and you cannot believe it is really true, although it may be. 

·         Because I could not stop for Death

      BY EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for Death –

          He kindly stopped for me –

          The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

          And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity –

The fields of gazing Grain.

Pass tho setting sun

·         swell (adj.)  If something such as a part of your body swells , it becomes larger and rounder than normal.

Swollen ankle = Oedipus

Tombstone

Vet cemetery

So we beat on Fitzgerald’s tombstone

·         Immortality  

Someone or something that is immortal will live or last forever and never die or be destroyed.  

Covenant  

A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people that is recognized in law. 

Make a covenant “ rainbow” never destroy the world by letting go of the water.

 

·         Noah’s ark

Ark

 

·         The raven

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.

·         Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. 

·         "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. 

unreliable narrator

Life is but a walking shadow 

  

·         Analytical skill is the ability to visualize, articulate, and solve both complex and uncomplicated problems and concepts and make decisions that are sensible and based on available information. Such skills include demonstration of the ability to apply logical thinking to gathering and analyzing information, designing and testing solutions to problems, and formulating plans.

·         "The Philosophy of Composition" is an 1846 essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. 

·         Symbolism: Symbolism is the use of symbols in order to represent something. 

Imagery: You can refer to the descriptions in something such as a poem or song, and the pictures they create in your mind, as its imagery.

Allegory: Allegory is the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things. 

·         "'beauty is truth, truth beauty,' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

Classicism, Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism

àbased on faith, reason

·         Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

"Araby" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.

·         Frame story: A frame story (also known as frame tale, frame narrative, etc.) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.

·         The Canterbury Tales is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War.

·         James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.

·         Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

·         conscious

Sombre: If someone is somber, they are serious or sad. 

Feeble lanterns

·         catalogue / dialogue (英美拼字不同)