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TPO13 L5 中世纪诗歌
Ok. So the two poems we are looking at today follow to the category of medieval times. 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 are shorter. These are more like long stories. I mean, one of them is all about love, but the other one… shan…. Whatever it is called, the other one. but it is all about fighting, battles. I mean, can both of them be considered poems?
Well, think back to the very beginning of this course, remember how we define poetry? In the very broad sense, we said, it’s written to evoke, to make you, the audience, have some kind of emotional experience, through the use of imagery ['imidʒəri]
肖像, 比喻,影像,意象, some kind of predictable reason. And unusually, but not always there is more than one meaning implied with the words that they used. Let’s start with the Chanson poetry first, that’s Chanson. Chanson poem became popular in Europe, particularly in France, and at the term actually short for a longer France phrase freɪz
词组 that translated to songs of deeds. And now they were called songs of deeds, because strangely enough, they were written to describe the heroic [hi'rəuik]英雄的 deeds or actions of warriors ˈwɔrɪə 武士, the knights, during conflicts. We don’t know a lot about the offers. It’s still contested驳斥,竞赛 somewhat, but we’re pretty sure about who the Chanson
poems were written for. They are written for knights, the lords, and the nobility 贵族that they served. The poems were song performed by minstrel ['minstrəl]
吟游诗人, a singer who travel from castle to castle, singing to the local lord and his knights. Well, would someone summarize the main features of the Chanson poem you read?
Well there is the hero, a knight, who goes to battle and his fight for his courage, bravery and loyalty ['lɔiəlti]
忠诚, 忠心. Loyalty to the lord he serves, his country, and his fellow warriors in the field. He’s a skilled 有技巧的fighter, born to face the most extreme dangers, Sacrificial [ˌsækri'fiʃəl具有牺牲性的, willing to sacrifice anything and everything to protect their king and country.
Ok now, given that the intended 预期的audience for this poem are knights and lords, what can we see about the purpose about the Chanson poetry? What kinds of feeling was it meant to provoke产生,激怒?
I guess there must have been really appealing 吸引人的to those knights and lords who were listening to them. Hearing this song probably made them feel more patriotic [ˌpætri'ɔtik;ˌpeitri'ɔtik] 爱国的, feel them like with good, noble thing to serve their country on whatever way they could.
Good. We got a pretty picture of what a Chanson hero was like. Now let’s compare that to the hero in the other poem. The other poem is an example of what’s called Romance罗曼史 poetry. And the hero in the Romance poem is also knight. But what makes the hero in Romance poetry was different from the knight in Chanson poetry? Well, first, the purpose of the hero’s action was different. The hero in Romance poem is independent, purely solitary ˈsɔlɪtrɪ 孤独的,隐士in the way, not like the Chanson poet who was always surrounded by his fighting companions[kəm'pænjən]同伴. He doesn’t engage in conflict to protect his lord or country. He does it for the sake of adventure, to improve himself, to show he is worthy of respect and love from his lady. He is very conscious of the particular rules of social behavior that he has to live up to 执行,与一致somehow. And all of his action is for the purpose of improving that he is an upright, moral, well-mannered, well-behaved individual. You may have noticed that in Chanson poetry, there isn’t much about hero’s feelings. The focus is on the actions, the deeds. But Romance poetry, describes a lot of the inner feelings, the motivations, psychology, you could say, of a knight trying to improve himself, to better himself, so that he’s worthy of the love of the woman. What else explains this difference? Well, digging into the historical context tells us a lot. Romance poetry emerged few generations after Chanson. And its rules were in geographic regions of France they were comer, where conflict wasn’t central to people’s lives. More peaceful time meant there is more time for education, travel, more time for reflection 沉思. Another name for the Romance Poetry, that is often synonymy [si'nɔnimi 同义词 with it, is troubadour
/ ˈtruːbədɔː(r); US -duər;
poetry. Troubadours were the offers of the new Romance poems. And we know a lot more about the trubitors, then we do about Chanson offers, because they often had small biographic sketches added to their poems. They gave a pretty specific
spəˈsɪfɪk 确定的,特定的 information about their social status / ˈsteɪtəs; ˋstetəs/ geographic location, and small outline 外形,大概of their career. This information wasn’t particularly reliable, because they were sometimes based on fictitious [fik'tiʃəs]
stories of great adventure, or scrabbled ['skræbl;'skræbəl]乱涂乱写 together from parts of different poems. But there isn’t off their to squeeze there(这部分实在没听出来) or infer some facts of their social class. The political climate had settle down enough, so their troubadours had luxury of being able to spend most, if not all of their time creating, crafting or composing their love songs for their audiences. And yes, these poems were also songs. Many troubadours were able to make a live in being full time poets. That should tell you something about value of that profession during medieval times.
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