Ⅲ. 诗歌研究
Amy 介绍了外国的诗人、作家是如何写秋天的。我们一起来学习一下吧！
文化意识 文
化鉴赏For writers in Western cultures, fall is a season difficult to describe. On the one hand, it is the end of the summer, so it's a little sad. The nights fall. And when you wake in the morning, there's fog and it's cooler: Winter is coming.
American writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in his book *A Moveable Feast*, "You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare (光秃秃的) against the wind and the cold, wintry light."
On the other hand, fall has its good side. There are many changes in nature at this time of year, such as the reds and browns that the leaves change to, and the way they fall from the trees. The French writer Albert Camus even thought fall was a second spring: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." It's a view you can also find in the most famous fall poem in English literature, *To Autumn* by John Keats. In that poem, Keats said that fall has its songs just like spring.
Another fall theme is wisdom. The arrival of the season is thought to be similar to a person becoming *
mature*. Their summer peak may have been and gone, but old age has not yet come. At this time, it's thought that people have learnt a thing or two about life.
The great Irish poet W.B. Yeats took up this theme in his poem *The Wild Swans at Coole*. Yeats put together a picture for the readers out of the details of the changing seasons in Coole Park in the west of Ireland, a place he knew well. Seeing and counting 59 swans, he remembered first making the count 19 years ago. He wondered whether he could still love as the lover swans do.
Of course, many other themes and subject matters can play a part in the literature of fall. For example, it's the beginning of a new term of the school year. As you would expect, fall is found in writing for children and young people. But fall writing usually focuses on the changes in nature that we see, which writers often use as a symbol for changes in human life.
1.
A
expressed the unhappy side of fall in his work.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Albert Camus
C. John Keats
D. W.B. Yeats
2. The underlined word "mature" in Paragraph 4 means "
C
".
A. thinking about life carefully
B. having lived for long
C. fully grown and developed
D. not growing any longer
3. 语言能力
推断能力 The writer mentioned some famous writers and poets to
D
.
A. give details about their works
B. compare their books and poems
C. show the readers the beauty of fall
D. show different understandings of fall
4. 语言能力
归纳能力 What is the passage mainly about?
A. Changes in nature.
B. Writers in Western cultures.
C. Fall in literature.
D. Wonders in the best season.
