英国文学第六课

6. Robert Burns 自主学习讲义

1. Words from Burns: 谁见到她便会爱上她，爱她便会直到永远。（从中管窥作家创作的风格）

Scottish Poet: Burns“But to see her, was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever.”

2. 结合课本P69 para.1 了解作家生平

Robert Burns (1759 -1796)Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read.

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3. Burns is the national poet of Scotland.

结合课本P69 para.2 明确作家习作的五大主题及代表作

Burn’s Poetry《自由树》（The Tree of Liberty, 1794）和《苏格兰人》（Scots, WhaHae, 1793）明显具有民主进步思想。讽刺诗《威利长老的祈祷》（Holy Willie’s Prayer, 1785）和《两只狗》（The TwaDogs, 1786）无情地嘲讽了教会的虚伪和地主对农民的压迫，诗中常伴有幽默的成分，既尖锐锋利，又妙趣横生。抒情诗多在歌颂自然的壮美、劳动人民的纯朴以及友谊和爱情，如《我的心在高原》(My Heart’s in the Highlands)、《一朵红红的玫瑰》（A Red, Red Rose, 1794）和《约翰·安德生,我的爱人》（John Anderson, My Jo, 1796）。

4. 结合课本P70深入分析代表作“A Red，Red Rose”

A Red, Red Rose(written in 1794, Published in 1796)This is one of burns’popular love lyrics and is also a good example of how the poet made use of old scottishfolk poetry and created immortal lines by revising the old folk material. The extreme simplicity of the language and the charming rhythmic beat of the verse express better than anything else the poet’s true sentiments toward his beloved.

诗歌解析重点：

1. The poet (speaker) is speaking to his girlfriend.

2. find the rhetorical devices applied in this poem: repetition, simile 3. taste the musical quality of this poem and notice its Scottish dialect

5. 课本外补充诗歌

Auld Lang Syne(written in 1788, Overwritten in 1793 and published in 1796)Burns heard an old man sang this folk and recorded it then overwrote it which afterwards became the famous song with a Chinese name《友谊地久天长》

随讲义附上两首诗的音频