单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,Walt Whitman,(1819-1892),I celebrate myself,and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,Excerpt from,Song of Myself,Walt Whitman(1819-1892)I cele,1,Life,Born,:31 May 1819,Birthplace,:,Long Island,New York.,Died,:26 March 1892,LifeBorn:31 May 1819,Born in a working-class family,son of a carpenter,At four,family moved to Brooklyn,New York,Attended public school,Apprenticed to a printer,Returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools,Edited a newspaper,the Long-Islander,in Huntington,Back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist,Experienced various jobs,Began writing a new kind of poetry,(free verse),Born in a working-class family,Whitmans democratic ideals&individualism,Americas first“poet of democracy”,Whitmans,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.,Whitman brings the,hard-working farmers,and,laborers,into American literature,attack the slavery system and racial discrimination.,Whitmans democratic ideals&i,The themes in Whitmans poetry,filled with optimistic expectation and enthusiasm about,new things and new epoch.,The whole hard-working people,The burgeoning life of cities.,The fast growth of industry and wealth in cities,2.Individual value,Pursuit of love and happiness,Sexual love,The individual person and his desires must be respected.,The themes in Whitmans poetry,Americas first“poet of democracy”,Walt Whitman was an,American,poet,essayist,journalist,and humanist,.Proclaimed the,greatest of all American poets,by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death.,His,Leaves of Grass,has always been considered a monumental work.It commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.,He is the poet of the common people and the prophet and singer of democracy.,Influence,Americas first“poet of democ,Influences the 20th century world literature:,His works is part of western culture/many poets in France,Italy,England,and Latin America are in his debt.,His poetry also influences modern American poets such as Pound,T.S.Eliot,Hart Crane,Carl Sandburg.,Influences the 20th century wo,The first person narrator,:“I”the subject in the poem,“you”the reader,Invites us to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.,Style:,free verse,Important Features in Whitmans Poems,No fixed rhyme and scheme,A looser and open-ended syntactical structure,The habit of using snapshots,（快照）,Use of conversational image,Strong tendency to use oral English,Vocabulary-powerful,colorful,rarely-used words of foreign origin,wrong words,Sentences-different lengths,disturbed,separate,The first person narrator:“I”,Rhyme,a rhythm of thought,cadences of his feeling,Parallelism,To repeat the idea in the lines with minor changes in wording(,the line is the rhythmical unit,),Phonetic recurrence,Repetition of the first words and phrases,Rhyme,works,Leaves of Grass,Songs of Myself,There was a Child Went forth,I hear America sining,Drum Taps,works Leaves of Grass,10,Leaves of Grass,Whitmans,originality first,in his use of the poetic form,free verse,(i.e.poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme),The,first version,of his masterpiece,Leaves of Grass,appeared in,1855,.,Emerson praised Whitmans poetry as“,the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet to contribute,.”,Leaves of GrassWhitmans origi,11,Leaves of Grass,Walt Whitman has devoted all his,life to the creation of the,“single”,poem,Leaves of Grass,.The work,has,nine editions.,In this giant work,openness,freedom,and,individualism,are all that concerned,him.,His purpose is to express some,new,poetical feelings,and to,initiate a poetic,tradition,in which,difference,should be,recognized,.He wanted to behave as a,supreme individualist.,Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman ha,12,Leaves of Grass,Most of the poems in,Leaves of Grass,sing of the,“en-masse”,and the self as well.Whitman also gives,emphasis to the physical dimension of,the self,and,openly,celebrates sexuality,.,Pursuit of love and happiness,is approved of repeatedly,affectionately in his lines.,If two persons are really in love,“what is to us what the,rest do or think?”The,individual person and his desires,must be respected.Obviously,Whitmans,sexual themes,are beyond the physical.,Leaves of GrassMost of the poe,13,Song of Myself,Song of Myself was originally published in the 1855 edition of,Leaves of Grass,in which it was,the first of twelve poems,.At the time this poem was untitled,in 1881 Whitman gave the poem its final name:Song of Myself.,In,Song of Myself,Whitman believed that two people could be“,twain yet one,”,their paths could be different,and yet they could