英美诗歌选读第10周（颂歌） 英美诗歌选读.pptVIP

Selected Readings of English and American poetry Lecture 9 Ode (颂歌) To Autumn  John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,  Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the mossd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has oer-brimmd their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?  Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find  Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,  Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reapd furrow sound asleep,  Drowsd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook  Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,-- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. What is Ode? a long stately poem in the stanzas of varied length, meter and form. It is a song in honor of gods or heroes. Although an ode is a serious poem expressing the speaker’s passion, it may be passionate about almost everything. Ex:“Ode to the West Wind