Walt Whitman
人物故事 1.Walt Whitman
人物故事1. Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman was born in Eighteen-Nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. Whitman was influenced by events around him. But his poetry speaks of the inner self. He celebrated great people like President Abraham Lincoln. He also celebrated the common people.As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirty-six years old when he published his first book of poetry in Eighteen-Fifty-Five. He called it Leaves of Grass. It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some lines are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme.One of America's greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman's work. But most other poets and writers said nothing or denounced it.Most readers also rejected Whitman's poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. His praise of the human body and sexual love shocked many people. Whitman was homosexual. He loved men. Some people disliked Whitman's opinions of society. He rejected the desire for money and power.Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.Experts today praise Leaves o[ Grass as a major literary work. In his time, Whitman thought of it as a work in progress. He re-published the book every few years for the rest of his life. Each time he added new poems. And he changed many of the old lines. The last version of the book contained more than four hundred poems. By then, Whitman's fame had spread to many nations.In Eighteen-Seventy-Three, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. He wrote more poems. He also wrote about political and democratic policies.Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in Eighteen-Ninety-Two. But if we can believe his poetry, death held no terrors for him. [390 words]freeverse (诗)自由体set／set／a．固定的；呆板的rhyme／raim／v．使押韵；用韵诗表达denounce／di'nauns／v．公开指责；谴责homosexual n．同性恋a．同性恋的suffer a stroke 中风hold no terror for somebody 吓不到某人(注：单词前加注*符号的，表示该词不在要求掌握范围内。
沃尔特。惠特曼
➢ Whitman released a second edition of the book in 1856, containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response.
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《草叶集》的地位
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《草叶集》从第一版到第九版，经历了坎坷的历程，
其中充满了激烈的争论。这种争论在诗人逝世后100多年
的时间里仍然在延续。19世纪后叶至20世纪全世界所有文
学大师几乎无一例外地都在一生中的某个时刻向惠特曼的
《草叶集》行过注目礼。
• 在惠特曼从事诗歌创作的年代，控制美国诗坛的是所 谓“高雅派”诗人，他们一味以模仿英国诗歌为能事，而 当时的英国诗歌也浪漫主义的末流，这种诗风在美国产生 的只能是等而下之的仿制品。
➢ He carried on a sort of experiment on the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression, allowing him to express freely his ideas in colloquial English, regardless of the prevailing principles of rhymes or meter.
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➢ Song of Myself----revealing such a world of
美国文学-Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
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•Born on may 31, 1819, in Long Island •Died on March 26, 1892 •An American poet, essayist, journalist , and humanist •The father of free verse in poetry
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• Through out Whitman’s life, Leaves of Grass went through 9 editions: 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1889, 1891-92. • The first edition of Leaves of grass contained 12 poems, not sell well but it made a stir on the American literary scene. Because it broke with the poetic convention and expressed the pleasures of sex and the sensuality of the body, it was criticized as “noxious weeds”, “poetry of barbarism”.
life
Brought up in a family on Long Island, New York. He had little education, but read works of Shakespeare, Milton and Emerson. Worked as an office boy, a printer’s apprentice, schoolmaster, printer, editor, and journalist. In 1855, published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, marking the birth of truly American poetry, not well received by the general public because of its sexuality and exotic and vulgar language, but appreciated by Emerson. During the Civil War, worked as a volunteer nurse, an experience which further enriched his knowledge of life and the world. Died in 1892 while still rearranging and revising his Leaves of Grass.
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
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打开大门上的锁/从门柱上撬开大 门/……通过我而发出被禁制的呼声：/ 性的和肉欲的呼声……/我认为欢媾并不 比死更粗恶,/我赞赏食欲和色欲,/视觉、 听觉、感觉都是神奇的。
——《自己之歌》（《Song of Myself》）
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诗人把自己描绘成 所有人中的一个。 • 这个人是超群的， 又是普通的；有优点， 也有毛病，甚至道德 并不完美。 • 就象一棵大树上一 片普通的叶子，一个 草原上的一株普通的 小草。
• Song of Myself 自我之歌（我 自己的歌） • I Sit and Look Out 我坐在这儿 眺望着 • I hear America Singing 我听见 美国在歌唱 • O Captain! My Captain! 船长！ 我的船长！ • Beat! Beat! Drums! 敲吧 战鼓！ • Democratic Vistas 民主的前景 • The Tramp and Strike Question 流浪汉和罢工问题
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Major Themes in His Poetry
• Equality of things and beings • Divinity of everything • Multiplicity of nature • Self-reliant spirit • Death, beauty of death • Expansion of America • Brotherhood and social solidarity (unity of nations in the world) • Pursuit of love and happiness
Free Verse: 自由诗
Walt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼 英美文学 ppt课件
• Edited a newspaper, the LongIslander, in Huntington
• Back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist
• Experienced various jobs
• Began writing a new kind of poetry
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Whitman's democratic ideals& individualism
America’s first “poet of democracy”
Whitman's democratic ideas govern his poetry-writing.
In his famous poetry, openness, freedom, and above all, individualism (the belief that the rights and freedom of individual people are most important) are all that concerned him.
2. Individual value
3. Pursuit of love and happiness
4. Sexual love The individual person and his desires must be respected.
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Influence
America’s first “poet of democracy”
• At four, family moved to Brooklyn, New York
Walt-Whitman--沃尔特·惠特曼-英美文学PPT课件
• Edited a newspaper, the LongIslander, in Huntington
• Back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist
• Experienced various jobs
• Began writing a new kind of poetry
• filled with optimistic expectation and enthusiasm about new things and new epoch.
1. The whole hard-working people The burgeoning life of cities. The fast growth of industry and wealth in cities
2. Individual value
3. Pursuit of love and happiness
4. Sexual love
5. The individual person and his desires must be respected.
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America’s first “poet of democracy”
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Excerpt from Song of
惠特曼十首最出名的诗 英文
惠特曼十首最出名的诗英文
华尔特·惠特曼（Walt Whitman）是美国著名的诗人，他的作
品深受广大读者喜爱。
以下是惠特曼的十首最出名的诗的英文名称：
1. "Song of Myself"（《我自己之歌》）。
2. "O Captain! My Captain!"（《啊，船长！我的船长！》）。
3. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"（《当紫丁
香最后在门前开放时》）。
4. "I Sing the Body Electric"（《我歌颂电的身体》）。
5. "A Noiseless Patient Spider"（《一只无声的耐心蜘蛛》）。
6. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"（《无尽摇篮》）。
7. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"（《穿越布鲁克林渡船》）。
8. "To a Locomotive in Winter"（《给一辆冬天的火车头》）。
9. "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim"（《黎明灰暗时的营地景象》）。
10. "I Hear America Singing"（《我听到美国在歌唱》）。
这些诗代表了惠特曼的创作风格和主题，包含了对自然、人类、社会和美国的独特见解和赞美。
美国文学walt-whitman英语介绍
• At age eleven he was an office boy for two lawyers and later was an apprentice学徒 of printer • At age of sixteen, as a teacher in the oneroom school houses of Long Island. • At age of twenty-two, he turned to journalism as a full-time career. • At age of twenty-seven he was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle 《布鲁克林之鹰》
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Career
• At age of twenty-nine Whitman lost his position because his political standpoint was opposite to his boss. at the Brooklyn Eagle after siding with the Democratic party民主党 against the newspaper„s owner, Isaac Van Anden, who belonged to Republican party 共和党 • During the Civil War南北战争, Whitman worked as a volunteer nurse, a “wound dresser” in military hospitals. • After the Civil War He worked as a clerk in the home office but was fired because the home office minister部长disliked his work Leaves Of Grass百草集
惠特曼简介英文
惠特曼简介英文沃尔特·惠特曼,他是美国著名诗人，人文主义者，下面是店铺为你整理的惠特曼简介英文，希望对你有用!沃尔特·惠特曼简介Walt Whitman (Walt Whitman, May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was born in Long Island, New York, a famous American poet, humanist, who created the free body of poetry (Free Verse ), Its representative works are poems "grass leaves set".沃尔特·惠特曼人物经历He ranked second in nine brothers and sisters. In 1823, the Whitman family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Whitman only took six years to learn, and then began to do printing apprentice. Whitman is basically self-taught, he particularly likes to read Homer, Dante and Shakespeare's works.After two years of apprenticeship, Whitman moved to New York City and began working at different printers. In 1835, he returned to Long Island, where he taught in a rural school. Between 1838 and 1839, he had a newspaper called "The Long Island" in his hometown. He had been teaching until 1841, after which he returned to New York and became a journalist. He also served as a freelance writer in some mainstream magazines, or published political speeches.Whitman's political speech aroused the attention of the Tanzanian Association, who made him a editor of some newspapers, but did not have a long job. During his two years as an influential newspaper "The Brooklyn Eagle", the split within the Democrats made it possible to support the Free Land Party that he left the job. After he failed to try to run newspapers for free land, he began to float in different jobs. Between 1841 and1859, he edited a newspaper in New Orleans, two newspapers in New York and four newspapers in Long Island. In New Orleans, he witnessed the slaves auction - something that was common at the time. At this time, Whitman began to focus on writing poetry.The 1940s were the first harvest of Whitman's long-term work: in 1841 he published short stories, and a year later he published the novel "Franklin Evans" in New York. The first edition of the leaf set was published by himself at the time of his publication in 1855 and his father's death. But his collection consists of 12 long untitled poems. A year later, in the second edition of the grass leaves, together with Emerson's congratulatory letter published together. The second edition has 20 poems. Emerson has been looking forward to a new American poet, "Now I am in the" grass set "to find.After the American Civil War, Whitman was in the Ministry of the Interior as a clerk, but when the then Minister of the Interior Minister James Harlan discovered that he was "annoying" the author of the "Grass Leaf Set", he dismissed Whitman The To the seventh edition of 1881, due to rising popularity, this version of poetry to be popular. The income from the collection makes Whitman buy a house in Camden, New York.Whitman died on March 26, 1892, and was buried in Harleigh, under his own tombstone.沃尔特·惠特曼生平简介BornPoet. May 31, 1819 was born in Long Island. The father was farming, and the poor moved to Brooklyn, working as a carpenter and building a house. He was interested in the imagination of the socialist thinker and the composer of the democratic thinker,Paine. Whitman studied in public schools, served as rural teachers; childhood also had a messenger, learned typography. Later in the newspaper work, has become editor. He likes to wander, meditate, and enjoy the beauty of nature; but he prefers the city and the streets, like opera, dance, speech, like reading Homer, Greek tragedy and Dante, Shakespeare's works. From February 1846 to January 1848, he was editor of the "Brooklyn Eagle". In 1848 went to New Orleans to edit the newspaper and soon returned to Brooklyn. After five or six years, he helped the old father to build a house, operating a small bookstore, a small printing factory, free to loose, free to wander; and teenager, enjoy and boatman, navigator, coachman, mechanic, fisherman , Handyman, etc. make friends.Grass set1855 "grass leaves set" the first version of the advent of a total of 12 poems, and finally out of the 9th edition of a total of 383 poems. One of the longest one, that is later known as the "song of their own" that poem. A total of 1336 lines. The content of this poem almost includes the author's main thought of his life, is one of the most important poems of the author. The poem has repeatedly mentioned the grass leaves: grass leaves symbolize all ordinary, ordinary things and ordinary ordinary people. This epic poetry is universally cold, and only Emerson wrote a warm letter to the poet. Whitman received great encouragement from this letter."Grass set" is the most important work of Whitman poetry, named after the concentration of such a poem: "Where there is soil, where there is water, where the long grass." Poems in the poems like the United States The earth's grass, vibrant and exudes attractive aroma. They are world famous masterpiece,created a new era of American national poetry. The author has bold innovation in the form of poetry, created the "free body" of the poetic form, breaking the traditional poetry of the law, to break the sentence as the basis of rhythm, the rhythm of free and unrestrained, Wang Yang unrestrained, Shu volume freely, with blew of momentum and no Not the capacity of the package.1856, the second edition of "grass leaves set" published a total of 32 poems. "All the way through the Brooklyn ferry" is one of the poet's best works. In addition, "the song", "song of the road" is also famous.In 1859, "Saturday Weekly" published on the Christmas number of Whitman's excellent lyrics "from the never-ending swing in the cradle", this is a love and death of the carol. The next year should be a publication of Boston, please print the "grass leaves set" version 3, this poem is the first "official publication". There are 124 new poems, including "from the never-ending swing cradle" and three groups were named "song of democracy", "Adam's descendants", "reed" poetry.War eraDuring the Civil War, Whitman, as a firm democratic fighter, showed his deep humanitarian character.When the war intensified, he took the initiative to Washington to serve as a nurse, all day care and injury of the soldiers, resulting in serious damage to health. His life is very hard, by copying the date, the money saved in the sick and wounded. He served as a nurse for nearly two years, approaching about 100,000 soldiers, and many later kept in touch with him.Postwar lifeAfter the war, Whitman was appointed as a small staff member of the Indian Affairs Office of the Ministry of the Interior.Soon the minister found that he was the author of the "Grass Leaf Set" and dismissed him; he later served in the office of the Minister of Justice for eight years. As a result of the exercise in the civil war, increased experience, political thought has also been improved, his creation has entered a new stage. In 1865, Whitman in New York at their own expense printed his poems in the late civil war "桴 drum set", which received a total of 53 new poems. A few months later he published a sequel, including the memorial Lincoln's famous "recently lilac in the courtyard when the open."。
美国文学_walt_whitman_简介
Major Themes in His Poetry
• • • • • • • Equality of things and beings Divinity of everything Multiplicity of nature Self-reliant spirit Death, beauty of death Expansion of America Brotherhood and social solidarity (unity of nations in the world) • Pursuit of love and happiness
Leaves of Grass 草叶集
First published in 1855 with only 12 poems Nine editions and last edition includes more than 400 poems Celebrates the ideals of equality, democracy, the dignity, selfreliant spirit and joy of common people Grass---the most common thing with the greatest vitality, as a symbol of the rising American
O Captain! My Captain
Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is worn, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red! Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here, Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult, O Shores! and ring, O bell! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
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• He is the great typical American poet with his theme of an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness which is part of “American Renaissance”. • His thought of democracy have been influential in world literature, and remain the inspiring source of 20th-century literature. • As James E. Miller points out in his edition of Whitman’s Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (1959), the poet’s second achievement was in language and poetic technique. • Readers take for granted the modern American poet’s emphasis on free verse and ordinary diction, forgetting Whitman’s revolutionary impact. His poetry added to the literary independence of the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom unknown before His free verse form departed from stanzaic patterns and regular lines of cadenced speech. He subordinated traditional poetic techniques, such as alliteration, repetition, inversion, and conventional meter, to this expansive form
The literary achievements of Whitman
• Biographical Introduction • Literary achievements
—Major works —Influence
Walt Whitman(1819~1892)
• Born on May 31, 1819, the second son of a housebuilder • Largely self-taught, acquainted with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. • After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in Harleigh Cemetery
3. The most famous pieces----Song of Myself, There Was a Child Went Forth, Pioneers! Pioneers! etc.
4. With new poetic form of free verse and oral language, Leaves of Grass has become a landmark in American literary history, which represents the poet, the people, and the nation in the 19th century America and celebrates the future of the nation and the ideals of equality and democracy.
Influence
• Walt Whitman has been claimed as America's first "poet of democracy", a title meant to reflect his ability to write in a singularly American character. A British friend of Walt Whitman, Mary Smith Whitall Costelloe, wrote: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet... He is America." Andrew Carnegie called him "the great poet of America so far". Whitman considered himself a messiah-like figure in poetry. Others agreed: one of his admirers, William Sloane Kennedy, speculated that "people will be celebrating the birth of Walt Whitman as they are now the birth of Christ"
5. Emerson’s support— “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that an American has yet contributed.”
• In this giant work, openness, freedom, and above all, individualism are all that concerned him. • Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass sing of the "enmasse" and the self as well. • Whitman extols the ideals of equality and democracy and celebrates the dignity, the self-reliant spirit and the joy of the common man.
Leaves of Grass
1. A collection of Whitman’s poems, his lifeling of 12 poems when first published in 1855. over the next 37 years it appeared in five revised editions and three reissues.
Although detractors are numerous and the poet’s organizing principle is sometimes blurred Leaves of Grass stands as the most fully realized American epic poem. Written in the midst of natural grandeur and burgeoning materialism. Whitman’s book traces the geographical, social, and spiritual contours of an expanding nation. It embraces the science and commercialism of industrial America while trying to direct these practical energies toward the “high mind” of literature, culture, and the soul. In his Preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman referred to the United State itself as “essentially the greatest poem” He saw the self-esteem, sympathy, candor, and deathless attachment to freedom of the common People as “unrhymed poetry”, which awaited the “gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it” Leaves of Grass was to be that treatment. today, however, with recognition from both the academic community and such twentieth century poets as Hart Crane. William Carlos Williams, Karl Shapiro, and Randall Jarrell, his Leaves of Grass has taken its place among the great masterworks of American literature