American Literature (8)

• Edgar Allan Poe

•   "The Fall of the House of Usher"  
• 波的博物館(點入連結)/Poe's unity of effect(點入連結)

 Poe emphasized the unity of effect that one should strive for in any work of art.

 For example, words and phrases that occur and re-occur in Poe's various critical writings include the following: "to affect," "the totality of impression," "the unity of effect," "the novelty of the effect alone," and "the single effect," and these are only selected examples of his repetition of the value of this principle; Poe's writings contain many more examples of this emphasis.

By these statements, Poe meant that the artist should decide what effect he wants to create in the reader's emotional response and then proceed to use all of his creative powers to achieve that particular effect. 

( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070206213508AAAOS40)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

• Ode to the West Wind

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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, 
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

• plot

 Every plot should have an exposition, rising and falling action,climax and resolution.

1. exposition
2. conflict：character v.s.society/nature/character/themselves
3. rising action
4. climax
5. falling action
6. resolution

(http://www.slideshare.net/guest6bbfe8d/elements-of-plot)

•  Vocabulary