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发表于 2009-12-7 11:04:40
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本帖最后由 名字是个词儿 于 2009-12-7 11:24 编辑
TPO 13 L3,变态的七分半演讲
才发现一个严重的问题,为啥写在记事本里的文字,全文粘贴过来,就少了好多空格捏???不少单词都连到一起去了。
Listen to part of a lecture in a poetry class. The professer is discussing medieval poetry.
OK, so the two poems we are looking at today fall into the catigary of medieval time, which was how long ago?
Almost a thousand years ago, right?
Yes, that's right.
But professor are you sure these are poems? I mean I thought poems wereshorter, these are more like long stories. I mean, one of them is allabout love, but the other one that Chan-chang-cha...whatever it'scalled, the other one, well it was all about fighting and battles, Imean, can both of them be consider poems?
Well, think back to the very beginning of this course. Remember how wedefine poetry? In the very broadest sense, we said it's written toevoke to make you, the audiance, have some kind of the emotionalexperience through the use of imagary. Umm, some kind of pridictablerythem, and usually, but not always, there is more than one meaningimpplied with the word that is used. Let's start with the Chansonpoetry first. That's Chanson. Chanson poems became popular in Europe,paticulally in France, and the term is actually short for a longerFranch phrase that translate to songs of deeds. Now they were calledsongs of deeds, because strangly enough, they were written to discribethe heroic deeds or actions of warriers, the knights during conflicts.We don't know a lot about the authors, it's still contested somewhat,but we're pretty sure about who the Chanson poems were written for.That is, they were written for the knights and the lords, the nobilitythat they served. The poems were song performed by a minstrila, asinger who travel from castle to castle, singing to the local lords andhis knights. Well, would someone summarize the main features of thechanson poem you read?
Well, there is a hero, a knight, who goes to battle, and he's admiredfor his currage, bravary and loyalty, loyalty to the lord he serves,his country and his fellow warriers in the field, he is a skilledfighter, willing to face the most extreme dangers, sacraficial, will tosacrafise anything and everything to protect his king and country.
OK, now given that the intended audiance for these poems were knightsand lords, what can we say about the purpose of chanson poetry? Whatkinds of feelings was it meant to provoke?
I guess they must have been really appealing to those knights and lordswho were listening to them, hearing the songs probably made them feelmore patrayotic, made they feel like it was a good and nobel thing toserve their country in whatever way they could.
Good, we've got a pretty good picture of what the chanson hero waslike. Now let's compare that to the hero in the other poem. The otherpoem is an example of what's called romance poetry, and the hero in theromance poem was also a knight, but what made the knight in the romancepoetry different from the knight in chanson poetry? Well, first, thepurpose of the hero's actions was different. The hero in romance poetryis independant, purely solitary in a way, not like the chanson poeit,who was alway surround by his fighting componiants, he doesn't engagein conflict to protect his lord or country, he does it for the sake ofadventure, to improve himself, to show his worthy of respect and lovefor his lady. He is very concious of the patitular rules of socialbehaviors he has to live up to, somehow, and all of his actions are forthe purpose of proving that he is an upright moral well-manneredwell-behaved individual. You may have noticed that in chanson poetry,there isn't much about the hero's feelings, the focus is on theactions, the deeds, but the romance poetry discribes a lot of the innerfeelings, the motivations, psychology, you could say, of a knighttrying to improve himself, to better himself, so that he is worthy ofthe love of a woman.
What explains this difference? Well, digging into the historicalcontext tells us a lot. Romance poetry emurged a few generations afterchanson, and its roots were in geographic regions of France that werecalmer, where conflict wasn't central to people's lives. More peacefultime meant there was more time for education, travel, more time forreflection, another name for romance poetry that's often synonimousedwith it is troubadour poetry.
Troubadours were the authors of these new romance poems, and we know alot more about the troubadours than we do about the chanson authors,because they often had small biographical sketches added to thirepoems, that gave pretty specific information about thire social status,geographical location, and a small outline of their career. This information wasn't particulaly reliable, because they were sometimesbased on fictitious stories of great adventure or scrabed together fromparts of different poems, but there is enough there to squeeze or infersome facts about their social class. The political climate has settled down enough so that troubadours had the luxary of being able to spend most, if not all of their time, creating, crafting, or composing theirlove songs for thire audiances. And yes, these poems were also sung,many troubadours were able to make a living being full time poeists,which should tell you something about the value of that profession during medieval time. |
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