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Questions
❖ 1. Who does “I” refer to? ❖ 2. What is special of this speaker in his
class? What does it imply? ❖ 3. Why to the speaker “ It’s not easy to
comparable with “a frog”? ❖ 4. What does “the livelong June” refer to?
❖ 5.What does “an admiring bog” refer to? How to understand the word “admiring”?
❖ 5. Why does the speaker say “You are white --/yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American.”?
❖ 6. What questions does the poet pose in the poem?
1897.
Emily Dickinson (1830 -1886)
❖ a recluse in Amherst “美国隐士女诗人” ❖ she was delighted in solitude.(孤独是迷
人的．）
❖ Nature is the permanent motif for her poems.
I, Too, Sing America
I
Langston Hughes
,
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
know what is true for you or me”? ❖4. How do you understand the
sentences “ So will my page be colored that I write?/ Being me it will not be white.”?
❖ 做个名人多么无聊！ ❖ 像只招摇的青蛙－－ ❖ 向着仰慕它的池沼－－ ❖ 在漫长的六月里自吹自擂．
Questions
❖ 1. What does “I” refer to? ❖ 2. Who are the “pair of us” and “they”? ❖ 3. In what way is “somebody”
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
❖ I’m Nobody! Who are you? ❖ Are you — Nobody —Too? ❖ Then there’s a pair of us! ❖ Don’t tell! They’d banish us (advertise) —
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Literary Focus (Page 6)
❖ The Speaker and the Poet or Author
“I” - the speaker; the voice, or mask or
persona(角色) that speaks the poem.
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Outline
❖ I’m Nobody! Who are you? (by Emily Dickinson)
❖ Theme for English B (by Langston Hughes) ❖ Literary Focus
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin(高更）.
Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then.
Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-I, too, am America.
❖ one of the most innovative poets of 19th-century American literature (frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes, broken metre, unconventional metaphors )
Literary Focus (Page 15)
❖Image(意象)
❖ - it is a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience./it is whatever appeals to any of our senses (including sense of hearing as well as of sight, smell, taste, touch and sound).
you know!
❖ How dreary — to be — Somebody!
❖ How public — like a Frog —
❖ To tell one’s name — the livelong June —
❖ To an admiring Bog!
我是无名人物！你是谁？
迪金森
❖ 我是无名人物！你是谁？ ❖ 你也是无名人物？ ❖ 那么我们俩就是一双！－－但别声张！ ❖ 你知道吗，他们容不下我们俩！
❖ 6. What is like to be “somebody”? Do you want to be “nobody” or “somebody”? Explain.
❖ 7. What is the function of dashes?
Terms in “Theme for English B”