漫路方长眠。TheRoadNotTaken.ppt

Maya Angelou’s life and works (1) an American autobiographer and poet who has been called Americas most visible black female autobiographer by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences. The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. Maya Angelou’s life and works (2) Was Active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Since 1991, Angelou has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as recipient of the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. Since the 1990s she has made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit. In 1993, she recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning at President Bill Clintons inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedys inauguration in 1961. Still I Rise Sound: rhythmic, powerful (iambic trochaic mixed, use of many verbs); rhyme scheme of abcb; dramatic monologue Devices: colloquial language, parallel structure, metaphor, simile Universal theme Phenomenal Woman What is the central image in each stanza? What does each image represent? How does the speaker feel about herself? What makes the phenomenal woman? Do you agree with the speaker about what makes a phenomenal woman? Li-Young Lee (1957- ) Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai His family immigrated to USA after five-year exile life from the anti-Chinese Indonesia attended the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport Works and Awards Rose (1986), Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New Yor