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伊丽莎白·毕晓普被认为是20世纪美国最优秀的诗人之一。1911年,她出生在马萨诸塞州的伍斯特。在她还是个婴儿的时候,她的父亲就去世了,她的母亲再也没有从丧夫之痛中恢复过来。她五岁的时候去了加拿大新斯科舍省和祖父母一起生活。最终,毕晓普进入瓦萨学院学习,在那里她开始写诗。那么,伊丽莎白·毕晓普是如何学习写诗的呢?让我们一起来了解一下吧。
Elizabeth Bishop is considered one of the best American poets of the 20th century. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. Her dad died when she was just a baby and her mom never recovered from the loss. She went to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, Canada when she was five. Eventually Bishop attended Vassar College, where she began to write poetry.
At Vassar she discovered Marianne Moore's poetry and met Ms Moore and began their lifelong friendship. She later met poet Robert Lowell. She wrote tons and tons of letters to both of them, which is good for us because we would otherwise know very little of her personal life.
Bishop published her first book of poetry in 1946 and wrote until her death in 1979. She would spend years working on a single poem. Her poems are not the result of hasty scribbling (匆忙乱写) on paper while eating breakfast. She would look through drafts of poems again and again and improve them until they were as close to perfect as she could get them.
Reading Elizabeth Bishop is like being transported to the very place, the very moment she's writing about. She leads us to a microscope so we can see every smallest part of the scene. It seems that she's always asking us to notice more, and more until the poem is so clear in our minds that it's almost painful—like a light that's too bright.
Period Ⅰ Welcome to the unit & Reading—Comprehending
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基础知识自测
Ⅰ. 看图写出单词
1. 2.
barren cage
3. 4.
mist frozen
Ⅱ.匹配英语释义
( )1.inner A.to suggest that sth. is true or that you feel or think sth., without saying so directly
( )2.interpret B.a measurement in space, for example the height, width or length of sth.
( )3.clue C.to discover or notice sth.,especially sth. that is not easy t