作者dale (冰城城主)
看板poetry
標題Re: [請益] 如何報告英詩
時間Thu Mar 24 15:21:36 2005
The Bean Eaters
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering...
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
Gwendolyn Brooks
其實她還算有名了。^^
回到你的報告:不知道現在回這篇還來不來得及……不過既然你的主題是
The Bean Eaters,那重點就應該是它(甚至我覺得 Gwendolyn Brooks 可以不提,
因為她不是你的報告主題──當然如果老師覺得要提比較好就另當別論)。
又因為你沒辦法知道作者在想什麼,所以你的感想、詮釋才是重點,
讀詩是很主觀的,不要認為主觀是不好的。:)
至於切入點──貧窮很容易,也很不錯。
這是兩位好人,也很認真地生活過──「做好事」和「認真生活」
不都是常聽到的 life advice 嗎?那為什麼他們還那麼貧窮?
作者以第三者的角度很平靜地敘述兩個人吃晚餐的情況
背後會不會讓你覺得社會好像那裡出錯了?
晚餐的食物是豆子──以豆子當主食代表什麼?
可以說的還滿多的,祝報告順利。
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