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•   Dead poets society心得感想         

          Oh Captain, My captain!”                   
          吶喊吧！青春的少年

          渲洩你心中所思所想

• 在林中奔向堅信的誓詞
  
  每一字每一句 在嘴間笑鬧誕生
  都是年少的雋永鏤刻
  在霧裡
  
  
  卡匹迪恩 卡匹迪恩
  
  
  當恣意昂藏的序曲隱逝
   (Oh Captain, My captain!)                                                  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  吶喊吧！青春的少年
  在雪中
  誕生的與逝去的
  眸中的火焰仍舊不滅
  
  
  
  
   

•   Stop swearing on the lord’s name.

Young─adult fiction：week(4)

•   Finding forester 

                   1. Introduction 
                   2. Impression

                   3. Favorite quote

                   4. Alluding to the old writers

•  獨立宣言 The Declaration of Independence 

             (Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness)

•   重要單字

1. Foreshadowing (n) is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. The author of a mystery novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder.

2. Comic relief usually means a releasing of emotional or other tension resulting from a comic episode interposed in the midst of serious or tragic elements in a drama.

3. Private

  Seclusive(自願孤獨的)

  (Apart from)

4. Select

          Separate

          Exclude

5.shoot fouls 罰球

6. Science

    Conscience

    Out of consciousness

  

•   Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner〈古舟子之歌〉and the major prose work Biographia Literaria.《文學傳記》 

• Greek mythology──Agamemnon and Trojan War

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the husband of Clytemnestra as well the father of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes and Chrysothemis. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered by Clytemnestra (his wife) and Aegisthus (the lover of his wife).

Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra. Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra (his own mother), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes (English: the Furies), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds' noses and drove them to insanity.

Who is Cassandra?

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy.

When Cassandra refused Apollo's attempted seduction, he placed a curse on her so that her predictions and those of all her descendants would not be believed. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy.

•    罪與罰的概念

•    Phoebus Apollo

•    Pallas Athena

Young-adult fiction：week(3)

• Continue notes on 麥田捕手

•  George W. Bush: 9/11 Address to the Nation (2001)

        In paragraph 11 『.......And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."........』

•   Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

¹ The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
²     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
³     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
⁴ Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
⁶ Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 23:4 Or the valley of the shadow of death

•   Dionysus(拉丁語：Bacchus) 酒神/狂喜之神was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology.In Greek mythology, he is presented as a son of Zeus and the mortal Semele.

•   What is 3c?

            Computer
            Communication
            Consumer electronics
 

•   What is 3d  jobs   ?

           Dangerous
           Dirty
           Difficult

•   Death in Venice

• plague(n)流行感冒(ex.SARS)
• epidemics(n)

Young-adult fiction：week(2)

• 英文寫作技巧

1. 破題句  (topic sentences)
2. 分線論述  (key word)
3. 舉例說明 (for example)

• The Catcher in the  Rye中 Holden 所讀的書籍及作家：

1. 《Out of Africa》 by  Isak Dinesen
2. 《Of Human Bondage》by William  Maugham
3. 《The Return of Native》by  Hardy, Thomas
4.    Ring Lardner,1885~1933. an American short story writer.

•  ''The mark of the immature man is that he wants to  die nobly for a cause,while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'' ──  The Catcher in the  Rye,  p.188 ──

         是Holden最喜歡的老師Mrs.Antolini引用Wilhelm Stekel的名言。 

•  Wilhelm Stekel (March 18, 1868 – June 25, 1940) was an Austrian physician and psychologist.

      然而Mrs.Antolini 卻「make a pass at him」 ，使Holden的幻想真正破滅。Mrs.Antolini是出自於對”youth''的欣賞與渴慕，如同Death in Venice (by Thomas Mann)中Gustav von Aschenbach對美少年Tadzio的感受。他們皆渴望青春，渴望自身已逝去的那段美麗時光。

 

•      Samuel Ullman (April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924) was an American businessman, poet, humanitarian. He is best known today for his poem Youth which was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur.

•      有關The Catcher in the Rye的額外引用，除了老師上課提到過槍殺John Lennon的Mark David Chapman在案發地點閱讀The Catcher in the Rye直到他被逮捕外，我還發現一篇相當有趣的文章，在解析動畫《攻殼機動隊：S. A. C.》與The Catcher in the Rye的關聯。

      (三個霍爾頓──從麥田捕手到攻殼機動隊 http://blog.roodo.com/wolfhsu/archives/5366613.html)

 

• 單字、片語解釋

1.  foul language
2. prolific
3. farther
4. further
5. prostitute
6. hemisphere
7. elaborate
8. half─assed
9. alienated
10. icon