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1. Advent
-天主教 12月點四根蠟燭
-purple的祭壇，stands for royal
-key words: anglicized 英國國教派
-meaning: ‘coming’
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→The Nativity of Jesus, also The Nativity, refers to the accounts of the birth of Jesus, primarily based on the two accounts in the gospels of Luke and Matthew, and secondarily on some apocryphal texts.
2. The second coming_ William Butler Yeats
-An Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years.
→An American writer of novels, poetry and plays. A literary innovator and pioneer of Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century. She was also known as a collector of Modernist art.
*Lost generation 失落的一代
→The generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.
→代表人物：W.B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway
→A group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture: rejection of received standards, innovations in style, use of illegal drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.
→WWII以後(1950年代)/作品主題：性、毒品、犯罪
→作家多聚集在San Francisco (*San Francisco Renaissance)
→often known simply as Revelation or The Apocalypse, is a book of the New Testament that occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. Its title is derived from the first word of the text, written in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning "unveiling" or "revelation". The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament canon
→An American popular-music singer. He recorded forty-four albums in his career, seventeen of which have been Gold-certified and three of which have been Platinum-certified.
→ “It’s most wonderful time of the year.”
*(p.702-703) The Fall of the House of Usher
→A short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the lake.
(1.)Words:
tarn潭(foreshadow)
gothic(尖聳的高塔+扭曲的雕像)
→gothic fiction(setting: horror, myth…)
e.g. Mr. Frankenstein (in Jane Eyre)
(2.)強調寂寞孤獨的感覺
→其他例子：短篇小說Araby-James Joyce
→An Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized.
→現代主義大師
*(p.714-718) The Tell-Tale Heart
→第一人稱(瘋子在說話)
→聽覺很好、亞斯伯格症
→擬聲字：hark, hideous, feeble, zig-zag…
→Words: ebony jaws, fragments(*fra- :片段的虛弱、破碎)
→ “stand without the door.” (stand beside the door) 站在門邊
→ “Frailty, thy name is woman.”_ Hamlet
5. Emily Dickinson (p.1193)
→An American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Considered an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
*free verse v.s.傳統英詩押韻規則
→Iambic pentameter
e.g.
*詩中的名詞會大寫→德語的殘留
6. Walt Whitman
→An American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
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