1、B1Robert BurnsRobert BurnsDec.16,2016B2ContentsContents123Life experienceWritingsInfluence&Honors1B3Life experienceRobert Burns(17591796)B41781-17821786 Irvine(欧文,加州):flax-dresser 亚麻整理工 Captain Richard Brown Alloway(阿洛韦),Scotland Education(1774)Age 15:principal laborer financial difficulties,Jamaica
2、 John Wilson Poems,Chiefly in the Scottish dialect(Kilmarnock volume/edition 基尔马诺克卷)B517941789 Dumfriesshire 邓弗里斯郡 Jean Armour Patriotic:Dumfriesshire Volunteers lyricist Scottish folk songs Edinburgh:James Johnson old Scots songs The Scots Musical Museum 12 years the French Revolution outspoken cha
3、mpion of the Republican cause 共和事业B6 Arduous farm work and undernourishment in his youth the rheumatic heart disease 风湿性心脏病 at the age of 37July 21,17962B7WritingsB8Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集苏格兰方言诗集The Tree of Liberty自由村自由村Scots Wha-Hae苏格兰人苏格兰人The Two Dogs两只狗两只狗 My Hearts in the H
4、ighlands我的心呀在高原我的心呀在高原A Red,Red Rose一朵红红的玫瑰一朵红红的玫瑰 Auld Lang Syne往昔的时光往昔的时光B9Written in Scotch dialectUsage of traditional elements of folk songs in Scotland:simplicity,pathos and humorImmortalize the Scottish countryside and humble farm life and satirized the sham and cruelty of ruling classFeature
5、s of Burns PoetryGlorify natural manB10 啊，我爱人象红红的玫瑰，在六月里苞放；啊，我爱人象一支乐曲，乐声美妙、悠扬。你那么美，漂亮的姑娘，我爱你那么深切；我会永远爱你，亲爱的，一直到四海涸竭。直到四海涸竭，亲爱的，直到太阳把岩石消熔！我会永远爱你，亲爱的，只要生命无穷。再见吧，我唯一的爱人，再见吧，小别片刻！我会回来的，我的爱人，即使万里相隔！A Red,Red RoseO,my luve is like a red,red rose,Thats newly sprung in June.O,my luve is like the melodie,Tha
6、ts sweetly playd in tune.As fair art thou,my bonie lass,So deep in luve am I,And I will luve thee still,my dear,Till a the seas gang dry.Till a the seas gang dry,my dear,And the rocks melt wi the sun!And I will luve thee still,my dear,While the sands o life shall run.And fare thee weel,my only luve,
7、And fare thee weel,a while!And I will come again,my luve,Tho it were ten thousand mile!一朵红红的玫瑰B11 How dose the narrator in the love song express his love?Using many figures of speeches:simile,metaphor,repetition,hyperbole,personification.Question 1B12B13B14 Question 2 Why is this poem so touching to
8、 the readers?1)original flavor in fiery and direct expression:directly passionate 2)artistic recreation;imagery presentation:newly sprung rose/sweetly played melody 3)in repetition to stir an echoing effectB15B16汉乐府诗汉乐府诗汉乐府诗汉乐府诗上邪上邪出自出自铙歌铙歌1818首之一，作者首之一，作者不详。不详。汉乐府诗中有关爱情、婚姻题材的作品多出自民汉乐府诗中有关爱情、婚姻题材的作品
9、多出自民间或下层文人之手，在表达男女之间的爱与恨时间或下层文人之手，在表达男女之间的爱与恨时都大胆、泼辣。都大胆、泼辣。B17Burns featuresBurns features His great success was largely due to his comprehensive knowledge and excellent mastery of the old song traditions.His poetry have a musical quality that helps to perpetuate the sentiment.Burns ushered a tende
10、ncy that prevailed during the high time of Romanticism:To introduce daily expressions into poetic diction;1)To pick up the life of common people as poetic subjects and show great sympathy.3B18Influence&HonorsB19 A proto-Romantic poet.William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,and Percy Bysshe Shelle
11、y greatly.The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalize Burns during his life and after his death,dismissing his education by calling him a heaven-taught ploughman.Influenced later Scottish writers.Esp.Hugh MacDiarmid,who fought to dismantle what he felt had become a sentimental cult that dominate
12、d Scottish literature.B20 Scottish Canadians have embraced Robert Burns as a kind of patron poet and mark his birthday with festivities.Robbie Burns Day is celebrated from Newfoundland and Labrador to Nanaimo.Simon Fraser Universitys Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns
13、poetry.Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a hybrid of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day,celebrated in Vancouver since the late 1990sB21 Title of novelist John Steinbecks 1937 novel,Of Mice and Men,taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of To a Mouse.American vernacular poets:James Whitcomb Riley an
14、d Frank Lebby Stanton.Singer songwriter Bob Dylan:selected Burnss 1794 song A Red,Red Rose as the lyric&had the biggest effect on his life.B22 The author J.D.Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfields misinterpretation of Burns s poem Comin Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of
15、Caulfields grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.The poem,actually about a rendezvous,is thought by Caulfield to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.B23Imperial RussiaRussia Elevated as the archetypal poet of the people.Expressed his own egalitarianism i
16、n poems such as his Birthday Ode for George Washington or his Is There for Honest Poverty”Well placed for endorsement by the Communist regime as a progressive artist.A source of inspiration for the ordinary,oppressed Russian people.Remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.Soviet
17、RussiaBurns became the peoples poet of Russia.B24StatueStatue of Burns in Dumfries town centre,unveiled in 1882Burns statue in Treasury Gardens,Melbourne,Victoria,AustraliaBurns Monument in Dorchester square,Montral,QubecB25Stamps¤cyBurns stamp,USSR 1956 The Soviet Union was the first country
18、in the world to honor Burns with a commemorative stamp,marking the 160th anniversary of his death in 1956.Burns was pictured on the Clydesdale Bank 5 note from 1971 to 2009.B2612 In 1996,a musical about Burns s life called A Red Red Rose won third place at a competition for new musicals in Denmark.O
19、n 25 January 2008,a musical play about the love affair between Robert Burns and Nancy McLehose entitled Clarinda premiered in Edinburgh before touring ScotlandMusical tributeB27In 2009,STV ran a television series and public vote on who was The Greatest Scot of all time.Robert Burns won,narrowly beating William Wallace.Greatest ScotB28Thank YouThank You
