五位美国文学作家作品 赏析

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Walt whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission.in his Leaves of Grass,openness,freedom,and above all individulism are all that concerned him .the poet`s essential purpose was to identify his ego with the wodld,and more specifically with the democratic of America.--
The song of myself
Among the Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself” was the most famous poem in this collection. In this poem, Whitman’s main theme “self” could be found anywhere.From it, we also could find Whitman emphasized on the worth of ordinary individuals, the important of self. He also admired the nature, and the life.About this poem, Whitman invited us to live life in a new way, to encourage us to take advantage of the creative potential that exists within the self and combine the self with the creative universe.


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Emily Dickinson`s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.her poems have no titles,here are always quoted by their first lines.due to her deliberate seclusion ,herpoem tend to be very pensonal and meditative.--
I'm nobody
The poem's first stanze tells how the speaker meets a fellow "nobody" — a friend. Together, the two nobodies can enjoy each other's company and their shared anonymity.
In the second stanza,She realizes that having a friend who understands you and accepts you as you are is more important than being admired by a lot of people or being in the "in" crowd.


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Robert Frost has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classifed with the old or the new.by using simple spoken language ang conversational rhythms ,Frost achieved an effortless grace in his style.he combined traditional verse from with a clear American local speech rhythm.--
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of the most quietly moving of Frost`s style .on the surface it seems to be simple ,descriptive verses,graphic and homely picture,but it is deeply meditative,adding far-reaching meanings come to a climax of responsibility:the promises to be kept ,the obiligation to be fulfilled.few poems have said so much in so little.



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Mark Twain is a writer who preferred to present social life though portraits of the local characters of his regins ,including customs dialects,costumes and so on.Mark twain`s humor is remarkable ,too.most of his works tend to be funny.containing some practical jokes, comic details and witty remarks.--
THE Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a representative of the colloquial style.it tells us a story about two people,tim and huck finn .Though a local and particular book,it touches upon the human situation in a general,indeed"universal"way:humanitarianism ultimately triumphs.



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Hemingway`s style ,with its consistent use of short,concret and direct prose ,gives hisnovles and short stories a distinctive accessibility that is identifiable with the auther.Owing to the direct chacter of both his stye and his life-style,there is a tendengcy to cast Hmingway as a "representative" America

n writer whose work reflects the bold,forthright and ragged individulism of the American spirit in action.Hemingway`s first true novel is The Sun Also Rises which cast light on a whole generation after the ww1 and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portraits of "The Lost Generation", a group of young Americans who left thieir native land and fought in the war and later egaged themselves in writing in a new way about their own experience.