英美文学John Milton and his Paradise Lost.pptVIP

John Milton andhis Paradise Lost Teaching Plan Part 1 John Milton (introduction) 10’ Part 2 Paradise Lost 20’ Part 3 The Old Testament :Genesis Chapter 3 The Fall of man 10’ Milton’s Life and the Three Periods of his Work “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon; Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”  Milton is a Puritan A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries advocated strict religious discipline along with simplification of the ceremonies and creeds of the Church of England.(清教徒：兴起于16和17世纪的英国新教徒一派的成员，主张严格的宗教原则和英国教堂的仪式及教义的从简 A puritan is One who lives in accordance with Protestant precepts, especially one who regards pleasure or luxury as sinful. puritan 清教徒似的人：尤指那些把快乐或奢侈看作罪恶的根据新教戒律生活的人 English Protestants A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Protestant Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers. 新教徒：西方基督教会的一个成员，其信仰和实践建立在新教改革运动中提出的原则之上，并把圣经作为上帝启示的唯一来源，只承认因信称义，并认为所有的信徒都有作教士的资格. A member of a Western Christian church adhering to the theologies of Luther, Calvin, or Zwingli.支持路德，加尔文或茨温利神学的西方基督教教会的成员 many early puritans looked with misgivings on the secular imagination. They mistrusted literature on the same principle that they mistrusted statures( given idols), church music, and elaborate religious rituals, and thought these were allurements and enticing of the sensual world. Milton is the great exception to the puritan’s abandonment of poetry ( John Bunyan, the prose) When blank verse came to the masterly hand of John Milton (1608-1674), he deliberately distorted the normal syntax and sound –patters of English speech while retaining the privilege of drastic metrical variation. His finest effects are gained by playing the thought and feeling structure of his large rhythms agai