第一篇：淺淡對英美文學的收獲

淺淡對英美文學的收獲

中國5000年的文化，為中國的文學發(fā)展奠定了堅實的基礎，在面對英美文學的時候，我們同樣也被那多姿多彩的文學巨著所折服。在經(jīng)歷了一個月的學習后，我們對英美文學有了粗淺的認識。

文學是對人生體驗的文化表征。文學作品隱含對生活的思考、價值取向和特定的意識形態(tài)。閱讀英美文學作品，是了解西方文化的一條重要途徑。作為英語專業(yè)的學生，在了解了英美文學的發(fā)展后，我們受益匪淺。

英美文學是對時代生活的審美表現(xiàn)，是英國人民和美國人民創(chuàng)造性使用英語語言的產(chǎn)物。英語表意功能強，文體風格變化多，或高雅、或通俗、或含蓄、或明快、或婉約、或粗獷，其豐富的表現(xiàn)力和獨特的魅力在英美作家的作品里得到了淋漓盡致的發(fā)揮。閱讀優(yōu)秀的英美文學作品，可以感受到英語音樂性的語調(diào)和五光十色的語匯，回味其“弦外之音”。英國文學源遠流長，經(jīng)歷了長期、復雜的發(fā)展演變過程。在這個過程中，文學本體以外的各種現(xiàn)實的、歷史的、政治的、文化的力量對文學發(fā)生著影響，文學內(nèi)部遵循自身規(guī)律，歷經(jīng)盎格魯-撒克遜、文藝復興、新古典主義、浪漫主義、現(xiàn)實主義、現(xiàn)代主義等不同歷史階段。

美國文學在`19世紀末就已不再是“英國文學的一個分支”。進入20世紀，美國文學日趨成熟，成為真正意義上獨立的、具有強大生命力的民族文學。戰(zhàn)后美國文學歷經(jīng)50年代的新舊交替、60年代的實驗主義精神浸潤、70年代至世紀末的多元化發(fā)展階段，形成了不同于以往歷史時期的鮮明特色和特征。

在這條文化之旅上，無數(shù)的文豪揮筆著巨著，有細膩的，有豪放的，有悲憤的，有高亢的，在旅途中，面對這些鮮花，我們應接不暇，我們陶醉在這文化充斥的氛圍中，欣賞著，享受著。那么現(xiàn)在我就選擇一支，來談談自己的收獲。

像中國的文學發(fā)展一樣，我想英美文學的發(fā)展也少不了詩歌這一筆豐厚的財富。上個學期，在老師的帶領下，也有淺嘗英美詩歌，通過了解也越發(fā)地發(fā)現(xiàn)英美詩歌字里行間里無限的韻味，以及它們所表現(xiàn)的無限美麗。下面我想說說英國的一位著名詩人彭斯。

羅伯特·彭斯(1759-1796)蘇格蘭農(nóng)民詩人，在英國文學史上占有特殊重要的地位。他復活并豐富了蘇格蘭民歌；是英國浪漫主義詩人的杰出代表之一，為英國浪漫之一詩歌的發(fā)展奠定了堅實的基礎，因此也被尊為英國浪漫主義詩歌的先驅(qū)；他的詩歌富有音樂性，可以歌唱。彭斯 生于蘇格蘭民族面臨被異族征服的時代，因此，他的詩歌充滿了激進的民主、自由的思想。詩人生活在破產(chǎn)的農(nóng)村，和貧苦的農(nóng)民血肉相連。他的詩歌歌頌了故國家 鄉(xiāng)的秀美，抒寫了勞動者純樸的友誼和愛情。

《一朵紅紅的玫瑰》是被譽為蘇格蘭偉大詩人羅伯特·彭斯1794年創(chuàng)作的最為經(jīng)典的愛情詩。從一開始接觸這首詩就喜歡上了它，喜歡它不僅是因為詩歌本身的內(nèi)涵和魅力，還是由于詩人坎坷人生和優(yōu)秀品質(zhì)與該詩意境所產(chǎn)生的共鳴。

《一朵紅紅的玫瑰》是羅伯特·彭斯最為經(jīng)典的浪漫主義抒情詩之一，因此浪漫主義手法在該詩里盡覽無余。18世紀末和19世紀初是浪漫主義在全歐的盛行時期，彭斯也開創(chuàng)了浪漫主義的先河，浪漫主義強調(diào)人的主觀精神和個性自由，著力表現(xiàn)個人的靈感和想象，思想和情感，這正是該詩所表現(xiàn)的意圖，表達作者的思想感情，即對少女的愛戀及依依不舍之情。浪漫主義詩人一般都視大自然為“美”、“生命”、及“理想境界”的象征，注重大自然與人類心靈的溝通與交融，自然景色對內(nèi)心的感染與感悟是浪漫主義詩作的著力表現(xiàn)點。詩歌的韻律更為舒展、自由、靈活。正如該詩中提到的有關大自然的詞句，如“玫瑰”，“四海”，“太陽”及“巖石”，詩人從自然景物出發(fā)來抒發(fā)對少女的愛意。因此，總結浪漫主義文學的特點，即如韋勒克所說：“就詩歌觀來說是想象，就世界觀來說是自然，就詩體

風格來說是象征與神話”，也就是說，浪漫主義文學以強調(diào)想象來突出文學的目的在于表現(xiàn)理想和希望，以強調(diào)自然來突出文學應偏重于抒發(fā)個體的主觀感受和情緒，以強調(diào)象征與神話來突出文學的隱喻性、表現(xiàn)和夸張、奇特的藝術表現(xiàn)方式。這也是羅伯特·彭斯在其詩歌中所體現(xiàn)的特點。

詩人對戀人的愛是那樣真切、深情和熱烈，并要一直愛到?？菔癄€。這樣的愛情專注使人想到中國的古老民歌： “上邪！我欲與君相知，長命無絕衰。山無陵，江水為竭，冬雷陣陣，夏雨雪，天地合，乃敢與君絕?！痹娙说陌窈腿崆橛挚捎靡痪湓拋碚f明，“執(zhí)子之手，與子偕老?！焙蔚鹊膱詻Q和悠長！愛的火焰在詩人的心中強烈地燃燒著，詩人渴望有著美好的結果。但是，此時的詩人已經(jīng)是襄中羞澀，正如前文介紹的詩人一生貧窮，詩人知道這時的自己并不能給戀人帶來幸福，他已經(jīng)預感到自己要離去，要去闖天下，但詩人堅信，這樣的離別只是暫別，自己一定會回來的。在這首抒情詩歌中，詩人用流暢悅耳的音調(diào)，質(zhì)樸無華的詞語和熱烈真摯的情感打動著每個人的心。《一朵紅紅的玫瑰》是表現(xiàn)深切和真誠愛情的詩篇，是采用歌謠體形式寫的，并且運用了蘇格蘭方言，最能代表彭斯的藝術風格。詩歌吸收了民歌的特點，采用口語使詩歌朗朗上口，極大地顯示了民歌的特色和魅力，讀來讓人感到詩中似乎有一種原始的沖動，一種原始的生命之流在流淌。另外，詩中使用了重復的句子，大大增強了詩歌的感情力度，加強了藝術效果。在這首僅僅有16句的詩中，涉及“愛”的詞語竟有幾十處之多，然而并不使人感到重復和累贅，反而更加強化了詩人對戀人愛情的強烈和情感的濃郁程度。彭斯在《一朵紅紅的玫瑰》中第二、三、四節(jié)的最后重復部分字句略有變化，但在情緒上卻層層遞進，加強了熱烈柔和的氣氛，使我們讀起來感到異常真實和親切。該詩主旨鮮明，語言純樸，描寫了勞動人民純樸的愛情，把對愛人深深的依戀之情表現(xiàn)得淋漓盡致，加上語言的簡潔明快，清新秀麗，給人以深刻的印象。

在那個浪漫主義的時期，我們看到的是紅紅的玫瑰帶給我們愛情的浪漫。所以可見，文學是社會文化的一個折射鏡，我們看到的不僅是人們對愛的大膽追求，對浪漫的渴望，還有那個時期人們的生活狀態(tài)，人們的不同心情。文學帶給我們的是享受，還是對歷史的探索??

不同的歷史時期，不同的文學代表人物，給我們的是不同的感覺，不同的滋味。走在這條文學文化之旅上，我們受到的是文字的沖擊以及心靈的震撼??

第二篇：英美文學

Analysis of Robinson Crusoe

2009級師范三班劉靜 Robinson Crusoe is written by Defoe(1660 ~ 1731), known as the father of English novel and the periodical literature.He is the father of the English novel and periodical literature, who was born in a family which was against the Anglican Protestant.His father is a businessman, doing business.His article influenced the later development of journal articles and newspaper.Because the speech, he was repeatedly arrested.At the age of 59 Defoe began writing fiction as a novelist, show remarkable ability.Robinson Crusoe Robinson is Defoe's first novel, is also one of the most famous novels.It is based on a British seaman on a deserted island alone for 4 years in exile records and creation.Robinson is the heroine of Defoe works in accordance with their ideals and created the character, he killed out of doing business, living on a desert island for 28 years, overcome all sorts of unimaginable difficulties.He start empty-handed, develop the island, not only to their own survival, and create a new world.He was a pioneer in the image, a real asset class hero.In this figure embodies the western ocean civilization tradition, with the outward development of curiosity, desire to conquer and spirit of adventure, praised the strength quality and working spirit.The novel opens English realistic novel road.In this novel, there are so many about the Wonderful part, but two points impress: one is the author of the narrative language easy to understand.In front of the book, the author use a lot of space to introduce Robinson in the sea to sea before, whether does not listen to parents' guide, but follow the guidance of the soul, the careful psychological description, the author description most incisive.Two is a fascinating story, the protagonist of nearly thirty years of life vividly in front of us, let our eyes as if emerging from a young life.Robinson Crusoe is to let a person look after all that the most primitive, most of my books, not only because it is the wonderful, and it gives us the modern enlightenment.The most qualities I learn from Robinson Crusoe is not his hard-working and brave, but his amazing mental capacity.One can imagine, a single large living alone on a desert island life ten years, no one to accompany him, even the most basic, and a person simply talk for a while to do.The deserted island there is no house, no rice, can only rely on his own hard to create a piece of heaven and earth.The first nonwhite character to be given a realistic, individualized, and humane portrayal in the English novel, Friday has a huge literary and cultural importance.Recent rewritings of the Crusoe story, like J.M.Coetzee’s Foe and Michel Tournier’s Friday, emphasize the sad consequences of Crusoe’s

failure to understand Friday and suggest how the tale might be told very differently from the native’s perspective.Besides his importance to our culture, Friday is a key figure within the context of the novel.Friday’s sincere questions to Crusoe about the devil, which Crusoe answers only

indirectly and hesitantly, leave us wondering whether Crusoe’s knowledge of Christianity is superficial and sketchy in contrast to Friday’s full

understanding of his own god Benamuckee.In short, Friday’s exuberance and emotional directness often point out the wooden conventionality of Crusoe’s personality.Despite Friday’s subjugation, however, Crusoe appreciates Friday much more than he would a mere servant.Crusoe does not seem to value intimacy with humans much, but he does say that he loves Friday, which is a

remarkable disclosure.Crusoe may bring Friday Christianity and clothing, but Friday brings Crusoe emotional warmth and a vitality of spirit that Crusoe’s own European heart lacks.This novel shows that we need to believe ourselves, where there is a will, there is way.Use our hands, then see a new world.What is more, we are not only live ourselves in the world, we need to care about others.Be brave, and

never lose hope.

第三篇：英美文學

術語解釋：

Couplets: a rhymed pair of Iambic pentameter lines.Blank verse: unrhymed Iambic pentameter lines.Sonnet: 14 Iambic pentameter lines which follows certain rhyme schemes.2.The conquest: In the year the Normans headed by which is mainly about 4.The Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer’s plan, was to exceed that of Boccaccio’s Decameron, but he failed and only 24 tales were written.5.William Shakespeare, one of the first founders of realism.6.In the first period of his work Shakespeare wrote:

1590The Second and Third part of King Henry VI

1591The First part of King Henry VI

1592The Life and Death of King Richard III;The Comedy of Errors

1593Titus Andronicus;The Taming of the Shrew

1594The Two Gentlemen of Verona;Love’s Labour’s Lost;Romeo and Juliet

1595The Life and Death of Richard II;A Midsummer Night’s Dream

***8Much Ado About Nothing;The Merry Wives of Windsor;The Life of King Henry V

1599The Life and Death of Julius Caesar;As You Like It

1600Twelfth Night, or, What You Will

In the second period:

1601 1602 Troilus and Cressida;All’s Well That Ends Well

160416051606Antony and Cleopatra

1607The Tragedy of Coriolanus;Timon of Athens

1608Pericles, Prince of Tyre

In the third period:

1609Cymbeline, King of Britain

1610The Winter’s Tale

1612The Tempest;The Life of King Henry VIII

7.Hamlet.To be, or not to be: that is the question: is soliloquy which used in a play on the stage and without a listener.To die, to sleep, no more.8.Francis Bacon is scientist, philosopher, essayist.John Donne, a metaphysical poets(玄學派詩人)

John Milton, his Paradise Lost, which tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Eve were driven1

out of Eden.John Bunyan, The plain man’s pathway to heaven.成功刻畫人物。

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, 是一部現(xiàn)實主義小說，作品的主題是通過對主人公魯濱孫的成功刻畫，歌頌資本主義上升時期那種不畏艱難和困苦，充滿野心和冒險精神，富有百折不撓，頑強毅力和斗志，依靠自己的雙手改變一切、創(chuàng)造一切的自我奮斗和創(chuàng)業(yè)精神。Is a realistic novel, the theme is according to the successfully describe of the hero Robinson, sing the praises of the not afraid of hardships and difficulties, and full of ambition and spirit of adventure , indomitable will power and fighting power, what’s more, the spirit of self-made depending on oneself in the liftperiod of capitalism.John Swift, his Gulliver’s Travels, 抨擊當時英國的議會政治和反動的宗教勢力，通過描寫格列佛四次遇險，寫出了作者看透了當代的腐敗，以諷刺的方法，抨擊了當時腐敗的社會。Attack the Britain

parliamentarism and reactionary religious forces, according to describe Gulliver’s four-time distress to show the writer has understood the contemporary social corruption, and attack the corrupted society by satire at that time.Henry Fielding is the father of English novel.John Smith is the first American writer.Thomas Jefferson is the writer of The Declaration of Independence.The literature of romanticism period is from American War of Independence to before the Civil War.combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on

surrealism.His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express

Transcendentalism是美國浪漫主義最高潮時期的體驗，認為世間萬物都是平等的。

Henry David Thoreau is the beginner of transcendentalism.Herman Melville, American novelist, proser and poet.Moby Dick, in which shows the struggle between

mankind and nature and draw people’s attention on how to get along with nature properly.He wants to subvert transcendentalism.9.詩歌鑒賞

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?我能否將你比作夏天？

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:你比夏天更美麗溫婉。

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,狂風將五月的蓓蕾凋殘，And summer's lease hath all too short a date;夏日的勾留何其短暫。

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,休戀那麗日當空，And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,轉(zhuǎn)眼會云霧迷蒙。

And every fair from fair sometime declines,休嘆那百花飄零，By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:催折于無常的天命。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade唯有你永恒的夏日常新

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,你的美貌亦毫發(fā)無損。

Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,死神也無緣將你幽禁，When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.你在我永恒的詩中長存。

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,只要世間尚有人吟誦我的詩篇，So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.這詩就將不朽，永葆你的芳顏。

全詩的基本格律是五音步抑揚格（iambic pentameter），包括三個四行組（quatrain）和一個對偶句(couplet)，采用典型的莎氏十四行的韻式，即abab cdcd efef gg。

二、比喻和描述有時平淡或離奇，破壞意美

Sonnet 29

When, in disgrace with fortune and man's eyes當我受盡命運和人們的白眼，I all alone beweep my outcast state暗暗地哀悼自己的身世飄零，And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries徒用呼吁去干擾聾瞶的昊天,And look upon my self and curse my fate顧盼著身影，詛咒自己的生辰，Wishing me like to one more rich in hope愿我和另一個一樣富于希望，F(xiàn)eatured like him,like him with friends possess'd面貌相似，又和他一樣廣交游，Desiring this man's art and that man's scope希求這人的淵博，那人的內(nèi)行，With what I most enjoy contented least最賞心的樂事覺得最不對頭；

Yet in these thought myself almost despising可是，當我正要這樣看輕自己，Haply I think on thee,and then my state忽然想起了你，于是我的精神，Like to the lark at break of day arising便象云雀破曉從陰霾的大地

From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate振翮上升，高唱著圣歌在天門：

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings一想起你的愛使我那么富有，That then I scorn to change my state with kings和帝王換位我也不屑于屈就。

賞析：對社會、對自己的命運的不滿和無奈。格律是五音步抑揚格（iambic pentameter）.韻式，即abab

cdcd efef gg。

To a Waterfowl《 致 水 鳥 》

-----by William Cullen Bryant威廉·卡倫·布賴恩特

Whither, 'midst falling dew,披著滴落的露珠，While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,天空燦爛，白日的行程就要結束；

Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue穿過玫瑰色的遙遠空際，Thy solitary way?你往何方把孤單的前程追逐？

總結：As the dew falls and the sun sets in the rosy depths of the heavens, I wonder where you(waterfowl)are

going?

Vainly the fowler's eye看你遠遠飛翔而無計可施，Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,捕鳥人的眼光徒勞眷顧；

As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,滿天紅霞把你映襯，Thy figure floats along.暗黑的身影飄飄飛舞。

總結：the hunter can bring no harm to you ,you are free and safe.Without success, a hunter(fowler)might try to

bring you down as you float in silhouette against the crimson evening sky.Seek'st thou the plashy brink你是在尋找開闊的大河之濱，Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,還是波浪拍岸的水草之湖？

Or where the rocking billows rise and sink或者潮水沖刷的海灘，On the chafed ocean side?那里的巨浪奔騰起伏？

? 總結：are you seeking for a place that is suitable for rest? Are you looking for the marshy edge of a lake,the bank of a river, or the shore of the ocean?

There is a Power whose care有上蒼把你關照，Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,--在無路的海岸為你指路，The desert and illimitable air,--在荒漠和無邊的空際，Lone wandering, but not lost.你孤單的飄蕩不致迷途。

? 總結：There is a Power that leads you on your way across deserts and through unlimited expanses of air.You may be wandering and alone, but you are not lost.All day thy wings have fann'd你成天翕動翅膀，At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere:任空氣稀薄暴風寒冷，飛在高處，Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,疲乏中你不肯降落舒適的大地，Though the dark night is near.即使黑夜即將緊閉它的帷幕。

總結：you have been flying the whole day, but do not stop and have a rest though dark is coming.You have been flapping your wings all day high in the sky, yet you continue on even though night is near and land beckons beneath you.And soon that toil shall end,你很快就會結束這樣的勞苦，Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,你即將找到你夏天的住處；

And scream among thy fellows;reeds shall bend休息中呼喚自己的伙伴，Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.蘆葦也會躬身把你的窩巢遮護。

? 總結：you have a strong desire to be with your family;or, to achieve your goal.Soon your journey will

end.Soon you will descend to your summer home.There, you will scream among others of your kind and find secure shelter among the tall grasses.Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven你的身軀全被吞沒，Hath swallowed up thy form;yet, on my heart天堂深淵里，你蹤影全無；

Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,然而你的啟迪深深留在我的心底，And shall not soon depart.我將久久地久久地把它記住。

? 總結:I can no longer see you, but I will never forget the lesson you taught me.He, who, from zone to zone,誰，從一個地方到另一個地方，Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,指引你穿越無限的天空作必然的飛翔，In the long way that I must tread alone,也會在我必須獨自跋涉的長途上，Will lead my steps aright.正確地引導我的腳步。

賞析：There are eight 4-line stanzas, in each stanza, their rhyme is abab.

第四篇：英美文學

《英美文學》復習方法

一、找到《英美文學》的輔導書，例如《自考一本通》《自考直通車》等類型的漢語版輔導書。

二、先把漢語版輔導書的課文翻譯通讀，理解了全書每個章節(jié)的內(nèi)容和知識點；用漢語記錄重點；

三、第一輪復習順序：

1、先看英國文學，后看美國文學

2、按照時間順序看，每個時代都有代表性文學流派和代表作家及代表性作品

3、按照課本的章節(jié)順序，看完漢語譯文后，對照英語譯文，劃出課本上對每個時代代表性流派，代表作家和代表作品的描述和評論。名詞性描述一般是填空題和選擇搭配題；評論部分是簡單題和問答題；*只看代表性的重要信息，非代表性作品和作家生平介紹不用看；記住某個時代某個流派有哪些代表作家，哪些代表性作品及該作品的簡要介紹和評論。

4、按照章節(jié)劃出重點信息，然后整理筆記；

5、全部整理完畢之后，基本上對文學史和代表文學作品有了基本了解。

四、第二輪復習順序

1、找到歷年真題，做題的時候?qū)φ沾鸢?，尋找該答案在課文原文中的原始線索，并作好整理記錄；

2、整理理解全部真題的答案以后，對課本的重點知識就有了比較清楚的理解；

五、考前突擊復習

1、依據(jù)真題筆記和第二輪復習的筆記，對不熟悉的部分進行重點復習。

2、根據(jù)以往考題的研究，舊題還會重新考，所以大家要關注所有做過的真題和各章節(jié)中沒有考過的但屬于代表性知識的部分，這些有可能是將要考的新題。自學考試已經(jīng)有歷史了，所以過去的真題加起來也就是全書的重點知識網(wǎng)絡，所以認真復習真題并理解消化，整理幫助記憶，這對于考試制勝是最好的辦法。

*警告：千萬不要拋開課本直接做真題；

千萬不要死記硬背，而是要在理解的基礎上反復讀，抄寫，默記；反復整理筆記，新的筆記只記錄沒有掌握好的，直到最后的筆記成為提綱式的。

〈高級英語〉復習方法說明；

一、對照輔導書，精讀課文，做課后練習；

二、找來歷年考試真題，認真做，查到答案在課本中的相關地方

三、認真復習真題，總結知識點；錯題本，反復研究錯題

四、回到課本，從頭到尾認真閱讀課文，全面復習重點知識點；

五、整理真題，再次復習錯題；

*高級英語上下冊32個單元，復習面積很大，所以必須早動手，狠下功夫。

祝愿大家能夠取得優(yōu)秀的成績！

第五篇：英美文學

SIR THOMAS MALORY

(1405-1471)

The OutlineI.SIR THOMAS MALORY

II.Morte d' Arthur《亞瑟王之死》

III.Questions for Discussion

.SIR THOMAS MALORY(1405-1471)

Life: He was very rich because he inherited a

considerable estate in Warwickshire(a county in west

central England)upon his father's death in 1433 and he

seems to have quickly become drawn into the turmoil of

local politics.In 1445, he became a Member of

Parliament for his county: a rather unstable area during

this time because the usually powerful Earl of Warwick,was only in his mid-teens.A lot of political affairs in Warwickshire led Sir

Thomas into his numerous clashes with the law.From

1444 onwards, he was caught up in raids(襲擊)on the

attacks on the Duke of Buckingham and Combe Abbey

大修道院,大寺院 , as well as a number of thefts in the county

of Essex.Keen to blacken his name, Sir Thomas'

enemies branded(給某人加上污名)him “a rapist, church-

robber, extortioner(勒索者，敲詐者)and would-be

murderer".Unlucky or incompetent,Sir Thomas was certainly in prison almost

continuously throughout the 1450s, though he did

escape several times.His pardon came to him in

October 1462, followed by military service in

Northumbria.From then on he kept his head down,but may have become embroiled(使卷入)in Cook's

Conspiracy(陰謀活動)of 1468, for which he was

imprisoned.There, he turned to writing and earned

eternal fame.Sir Thomas died on 12th March 1471,probably in Newgate Prison(London).He was buried in the nearby Friary Church of St.Francis.II.Morte d' Arthur

《亞瑟王之死》

Malory's tale begins with the mysterious birth of Arthur and ends with his equally mysterious death.The central concern is with the adventures of Arthur and his famous Knights of the Round Table.The knights fight many battles and win glory, all of which is a credit to the name of King Arthur.Near the end of the story, however, the tide of good fortune turns.Launcelot, one of Arthur's knights, falls in love with Arfhur's queen, Guinever, and the lady

returns his love.One by one the other knight become discontented(使不滿), selfish, or

disillusioned(使醒悟;使不再抱幻想;使...的理想破滅).Thus weakened, the kingdom is attacked by force under Sir Mordred, Arthur's treacherous(背叛的;不忠的)nephew, and ultimately it goes down in defeat.Arthur is borne away(被...所驅(qū)使)on a barge(大型平底船)by three mysterious ladies of the Lake.Morte d‘Arthur was written in a time of transition.The feudal order was dying.By the time Malory began writing his story, soldiers were fighting with gunpowder, a middle class of

tradesmen was arising;and the practices of chivalry were being replaced(代替,取代)by a new aristocratic code.Malory, in a desire to escape the disorder and uneasiness of his day,tried to recapture lost ideals of the romantic past as recounted(敘述,講述)in his tale of noble kings, adventurous knights, and damsels(少女;閨女)in distress(悲痛;苦惱;憂傷;貧困,窮苦;危難;不幸;引起痛苦或悲痛的事物).This book is very important in English literature.Its Arthurian materials have a strong influence on literature of later centuries.III.Questions for Discussion

1.What are the features of Popular Ballads?

2.What is the story of Morte d‘Arthur ?

3.Why is Sir Thomas Malory an important writer the 15th century?

1.What are the features of Popular Ballads?

See the last paragraph on Page 50 to the fifth paragraph on Page 51.of our text book.What is the story of Morte d‘Arthur ?See Page 6 –9 of our PPt..Why is Sir Thomas Malory an important writer the 15th century?

See the first paragraph on Page 52 of our text book.