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Week2:
RalphWaldoEmerson(1803-1882)
1.Whatdoes“whim”meaninthe“Self-reliance”?
andwhydoes
Emersoncallconsistency“foolish”?
2.WhatisanacrosticorAlexandrianstanzacharacterlike,accordingto
theSelf-relaince?
3.Explain“totalkofrelianceisapoorexternalwayofspeaking.Speakratherofthatwhichrelies,because
—2
itworksandis.”andthecontextthatgivesrisetothisstatementintheSelf-reliance.
4.WhatareEmerson’scommentsonJesusChristin“TheDivinitySchoolAddress”?
PleasecompareitwithThomasPaine’sinTheAgeofReason.
WeekThree:
HenryDavidThoreau(1817--1862)
1.Whatistheanalogybetweenthatstripedsnakelyingonthebottomofthepondandthemanintheearlyspring?
Howisastraygooselikethespiritofthefog?
—3
2.WhatisThoreau’sunderstandingofthebeautyofanarchitecture?
Andwhatdoeshethinkofthearchitecturalornaments?
Inwhat
caseswilla“carpenter”bea“coffin-maker”?
3.WhydoesThoreausay“Thosethingsforwhichthemostmoneyisdemandedareneverthethingswhichthestudentmostwants”?
WhatisyourcommentonThoreau’sideaofhighereducation?
4.IsThoreauaquietistorahermitinthewoodsofWalden?
Whyorwhynot?
—4
Weekfour:
NathanielHawthorne(1804-1864):
1.Whatdidtheboy,atnightfall,hearwhenhewasplayingwiththescatteredfragmentsofmarble?
Andhowdidherespond?
2.Whatdoesauthorcomparethekilnwith?
3.WhatquestionstruckEthanBrand’smindonthatportentousnight18yearsago?
Didhefindtheanswertoitafter18-year-wanderingintheworld?
Whatisit?
—5
4.WhatkindofpersonisEthanBrandinhisyouthhood?
Whatcauseshistransformation?
Whatistheendofhislife?
5.Howdoestheolddog’spursuitofhistailparallelEthanBrand’ssearchfortheUnpardonableSin?
6.WhatisyourunderstandingofthelittleboyJoe?
Whatvirtuesdoeshestandfor?
WeekFive:
HermanMelville(1819-1891)
1.HowdidAhabrespondwhenMoby-Dickappearbeforehiminthelastdayofthechasing
—6
Moby-Dick?
Andhowdidhe
respondinthelasttwodaysbefore?
DoyouthinkAhab’sattitudes
towardsMoby-Dickundergoany
changes?
Why?
2.WhataretheFedallah’sprophecy
aboutAhab’sdeath?
Doesitcome
true?
Andhow?
I
3.WhoistheonlysurvivorofthePequod?
4.WhatarethesymbolicmeaningsofMoby-DickandCaptainAhab?
Andalsothesymbolicmeaningofthedeathofthebirdofheavenattheendofthenovel?
5.Howdoyouunderstandtheending
—7
sentence:
“andthegreatshroudofthesearolledonasitrolledfivethousandyearsago.?
”
Week6WaltWhitman(1819-1892)1.WhatdoesWhitman’s“self”referto?
WhyisWhitman’s“myself”differentfromthenarrowegotism?
2.WhydoesWhitmancallhislife’sworkLeavesofGrass?
Whatdoes“aleafofgrass’’meantoyou?
ToWhitman?
3.WhatistheendingofSongofMyself?
AndhowwillyourespondtoWhitman’sinvitation?
Week7EmilyDickinson(1830-1886)
—8
1.Dickinsoniswell-knownforher
poeticmeditationson
dying
and
death.What
is
somoving
touchinginherdeathmeditations?
Doyou
think
thespeakfearsof
death?
Discuss
your
understandingwiththehelpofher
poems.
2.Whatimagesdoesthepoetess
introduceinthe“Hope”,andhow
dotheywork
asthemetaphorsof
theidea---HOPE?
3.Howdoesthe
triumphinghuman
spiritpermeatethroughDickinson
’s
poetry
of
human
suffering?
Illustrate
ideas
with
her
—9
specificpoems.
Week8EdgarAllanPoe(1809-1849)
1.Howmanytimesistheword
“nevermore”repeated?
Andwhat
inquiriesthat“I”raisedincitesthe
raventorespondtowith
“Nevermore’?
2.Besides“nevermore”,whatis(are)theotherwordorwordsthatyoufindhighlyrepeated?
3.HowdoPoe’spoemsandstoriescorrespondtotheliteraryprincipalsheraisedinhis“PoeticPrinciples”
and“ThePhilosophyof
Composition”?
DiscusswithPoe’s
—10
poemsandstoriesasexample.
—11
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