song_of_myself_车俊枫.ppt

Song of Myself 1  Walt Whitman Song of Myself 1 loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.  我闲游，邀请我的灵魂一起，我悠闲地俯身观察一片夏天的草叶 Creeds and schools in abeyance,  Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,  I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,  Nature without check with original energy. 教条和学派先不去管， 暂且退回来，满足于它们的现状，可是决不能忘了， 我无论从善从恶，我允许随意发表意见， 顺乎自然，保持原有的活力。 My tongue ,every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air， Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death 我的舌，我血液的每个原子，是在这片土壤，这儿的空气里形成的， 是这里的父母生下的，父母的父母也是在这里出生的，他们的父母也是如此， 我，现在三十七岁，一生下身体就十分健康， 希望永远如此。直到死去。 Form： poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme. Whitman is the first great American poet to use this form of poetry, he also used it more skillfully than any other poet. he broke the conventional poetic materials, no myth, no romance, no story of king and lords. He sings for self, common people, America, city life, nature, etc. Theme: Whitman sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death. Individualism, nationalism, and internationalism or cosmopolitanism, the three contradicting beliefs are reasonably united. song of Myself was the concentration of Leaves of Grass, confirming its epic aspect and Whitman’s unique perspective and unusual artistic composition. Fundamentally, Song of Myself is a song of freedom, democracy, equality and love. It shows poet’s philosophical and religious thinking of life and cosmic inventory After reading the poem We should take a positive attitude for life, for whatever we meet or things that we will As human ,we should trust ourselves Nature is broad and