Week 4
I.
Mortal
*We are only mortal.
*God is immortal.
*Mort = death
*Mortician, mortified, morgue
*Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
“The Face That
Launched A Thousand Ships” by • 10 poems by Christopher Marlowe
àthe tragical history of Doctor Faustus
*if
- bread
If
a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
Then where am I to go?
II.
William Shakespeare
*Four Shakespearian tragedies:
1.
Hamlet
*frailty thy name is woman!
*fra – broken
pieces 破碎 fragile,
fragment
2.
Othello
3.
King Lear
4.
Macbeth
*Romeo &
Juliet - Romance
III.
Poetry
*thou/ thee/ thy (thine) à Nominative/
Objective/ Possessive
*rhyme, stress or not àfunction
word/ content word
*iambic penta
* A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns [P. 754-755] [A25]
O
my Luve's like a red, red rose àsimile
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, àare you; beautiful girl [German] st/est
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: àwith
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee well, my only Luve à美好 fair llady
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, àare you; beautiful girl [German] st/est
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: àwith
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee well, my only Luve à美好 fair llady
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
*simile
[A11] ßà
metaphor [A7] (comparison) direct/ inderect
IV.
Roman Fever
*-eum
Colosseum 羅馬競技場
Auditorium
Aquarium
Museum
*moon
*Babs àBarbara
*foreshadowing: at the top of page 86
*engulf 隱藏 en- put into, gulf- 灣
* c.f., Freytag’s Pyramid
*conflict: no conflict no story
1. people ßà people, society
2. people ßà nature
3. people ßàhimself/ herself
V.
Word bank
*spinster 老處女
*irony [A6] verbal, situational, dramatic
*Figure of speech [A5]
*novel, novella [A8]
*Oxymoron [A9] e.g., Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
*para- paragraph,
parachute, parallel
*ex- out, explosure
VI.
Freytag’s Pyramid [P.53]
* protagonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist]v.s.
[Antagonist]
