栖息的鹰.ppt

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Ted Hughes is consistently described as one of the 20th century ’ s greatest English poets. Born August 17th, 1930 in Mytholmroyd , Yorkshire (约克郡英格兰东北的一郡), his family moved to Mexborough when he was 7 to run a newspaper and o( 烟草) shop. He wrote his first poem from the age of 15, some of which made their way into the school magazine. Before beginning English studies at Cambridge University (having won a scholarship in 1948), he spent much of his National service time reading and rereading all of Shakespeare . According to report, he could recite it all by heart. At Cambridge, he spent most time reading folklore (民间传说) and Yeat's poems, and switched from English to Archaeology( 考古学) and Anthropology( 人类学) in his third year. Hughe's first book of poems, Hawk in the Rain , was published in 1957 to immediate acclaim( 称赞; 欢呼,喝彩), winning the Harper publication contest. Over the next 41 years, he would write upwards of 90 books, and win numerous prizes and fellowships. In 1984, he was appointed England ’s poet laureate( 桂冠诗人). Hughes is what some have called a nature poet . A keen( 敏锐的) countryman and hunter from a young age, he viewed writing poems as a continuation of his earlier passion. ‘ This is hunting and the poem is a new species of creature, a new specimen( 标本;样品) of the life outside your own. ’ Hughes' earlier poetic work is rooted in nature and, in particular, the innocent savagery of animals, an interest from an early age. He wrote frequently of the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world . Animals serve as a metaphor for his view on life: animals live out a struggle for the survival of the fittest in the same way that humans strive for ascendancy( 优势,支配地位) and ess. Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. The convenien