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1、,Edgar Allan Poe,Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49),Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49),Tragic life, a gifted but tormented man “Poe was the first American writer to succeed in creating a total life in art as a foil to the conflict and frustration of the human predicament.” Poet and short story writer( those of horror
2、s and “ratiocination”),Poes Theory of Poetry,Beauty is the only legitimate province of the poet: The sense of the beautiful is an immortal instinct within men. “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”Poe, 1846, “The Philosophy of Composition” Poetry
3、was, a passion, not merely a purpose; poetry should appeal only to the sense of beauty, not truth; informational poetry, or didactic poetry was illegitimate (in the times to inculcate a moral); poetic emotion was a vague sensory state, so against realistic details in poetry. The music of Language: l
4、anguage as medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty A pioneering aesthetician and psychological investigator,To Helen,致海伦,海伦，你的美丽对于我， 就像昔日尼斯安的小船 ， 在芳菲的大海轻轻颠簸， 载着精疲力竭的流浪汉 驶向他故乡的岸边。 早已习惯漂泊在汹涌的海上， 你堇色的秀发，典雅的容颜 和仙女般的风姿已令我知详 何谓希腊的华美壮观， 何谓罗马的宏伟辉煌。,瞧！在那明亮的壁龛窗里， 我看你玉立多像尊雕塑， 那镶嵌玛瑙的明灯在手！ 啊，普叙赫，你来自圣地， 那片天国净土
5、！,Eros and Psyche,His short stories,The first to develop the short story as a distinctive art form and to elaborate criteria. Subject: Morbidity, necrophilia, the no mans land between death and life; the strange, incestuous vampirism of the dead with the living Grotesque, Gothicism Brevity, single e
6、ffect, truth instead of beauty, psychological effect on the reader The earliest American detective fiction and science fiction,“The Cask of Amontillado” “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Purloined Letter” one of the worlds greatest de
7、tective stories.,“The Fall of the House of Usher”,A gothic masterpiece The setting and symbols reveal character and conflict Study of fear Incestuous relationship (D. H. Lawrence),Plot: arrival of the narrator-the eerie atmosphere (the mansion, the lake)-Usher and Madeline-Madelines death-the verse-the book reading-Madeline came-death of the twins-the collapse of the mansion. Style: single effect Theme: Terror, Murder, Madness Symbolism: the mansion, the tarn, the bridge, the crack in the house, the storm,Thank You,