2014年5月7日 星期三

文學導讀 week 11

dic- to say, to tell

dic·ta·tor

  [dik-tey-ter, dik-tey-ter]  
noun
1.
a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in agovernment without hereditary succession.
2.
(in ancient Rome) a person invested with supreme authority during a crisis, the regular magistracybeing subordinated to him until the crisis was met.
3.
a person who authoritatively prescribes conduct, usage, etc.: a dictator of fashion.
4.
a person who dictates, as to a secretary.

di·dac·tic

  [dahy-dak-tik] 
adjective
1.
intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3.
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4.
didactics, ( used with a singular verb ) the art or science of teaching.

 Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, as in wise fool.

 The wise fool, or the wisdom of the fool is a theme that seems to contradict itself in which the fool may have an attribute of wisdom.  

 For example,

 1. "parting is such sweet sorrow''  → Romeo and Juliet.

 2. Love and lost, dream and adventures, life and death
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language.
Ode to the West Wind
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 Miniature of Keats in his twenties, a pale sensitive young man with large blue eyes looking up from a book on the table in front of him, with his chin on his left hand with his elbow. He has tousled golden-brown hair parted in the middle, and wears a grey jacket and waistcoat over a shirt with a soft collar and white cravate tied in a loose bow.
John Keats

 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats

 The final lines of the poem declare that "'beauty is truth, truth beauty,' 
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 I think, therefore, I am.  by Cogito ergo sum
"To be or not to be..." is the opening phrase of a soliloquy in the "Nunnery Scene"[1] of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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Archibald MacLeish
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Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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Rhyme scheme


A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. Therefore, it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines.
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