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 Class Notes

1. today's topic

(1) William Faulkner - "A Rose For Emily" 

Quiz (Norton)

Quiz (funtrivia - The Works of William Faulkner)

Quiz (funtrivia - A Rose for Emily)

"A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.

2. definition:

(1) vocab:

resignation

1. (n) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)

2. (n) acceptance of despair

obliterate (ob 負面)

1. (v) romove completely from recognition or memory

2. (v) do away with completely, without leaving a trace

3. (v) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

4. (v) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing 

5. (adj) reduced to nothingness

ephemeral

1. (n) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

2. (adj.) lasting a very short time

(2) Is that right? = really?

(3) A Midsummer Night's Dream

SparkNotes

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. 

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(4) The lunatic, the lover and the poet--- A midsummer night's dream 

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

The passage indicates the enticing intrigue of literature and imagination

This means all three are "wholly composed of imagination—which in Shakespeare's time meant the 'power of seeing things.' 

(5) The meaning of "Fever" in Roman Fever.

1. 年輕男女的愛情狂熱 → 競逐 Mr. Ansley 的狂熱

2. Colloseum 當時的流行 Fever → Malaria

(6) The meaning of  "August" in A Rose for Emily.

It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most selected street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood…now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

“August” means fading, and “August names” refers to the people who used to be stately and grand but now has fallen to squalor. 

(7) William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech

完整版→ http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/lib_nobel.html

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.