【American Literature】
《week 13》
《marshmallow》
Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a sugar candy that, in its modern form, typically consists of sugar, whipped to a spongy consistency, molded into small cylindrical pieces, and coated with corn starch. Some marshmallow recipes call for eggs.
Thank you for giving me a strawberry marshmallow.
《Christianity》
Christianity: Christianity is an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and oral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with nearly 2.4 billion adherents, known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus has a “unique significance” in the world. Most Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God, Fully divine and fully human, and the savior of humanity whose coming was prophesied in the Old Testament. Consequently, Christians refer to Jesus as Christ or the Messiah.
The 3 primary divisions of Christianity are Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. There are other Christion groups that do not fit neatly into one of these primary categories.
《Jesus》
Jesus: Jesus is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God. Christianity regards Jesus as the awaited Christ of the Old Testament and refers to him as Jesus Christ, a name that is also used in non-Christian contexts.
《Ernest Hemingway》
Ernest Miller Hemingway: Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th – century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-19502, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published 7 novels, 6 short story collections, and 2 non-fiction works. Additional works, including 3 novels, 4 short story collections, and 3 non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American Literature.
《Lost Generation》
Lost Generation: The Lost Generation was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein who was then his mentor and patron. This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peorce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkwitz, Alan Seeger, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Erich Maria Remarque.
All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death. By Gertrude Stein
《William Butler Yeats》
William Butler Yeats: W. B. Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for 2 terms.
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
《It’s the most wonderful Time of the Year》
It’s the most wonderful Time of the Year: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year is a popular Christmas song written in 1963 by Edgar Pola and George Wyle.
YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtb3EtjEic
《Edgar Allan Poe》
Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/telltale.html
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