Western Literature－flyda6073的部落格

1.reticence (unwillingness, hesitance) 2.facilitate (make easier or less difficult. ex. Careful planning facilitates any kind of works.) 3.the nostalgia of a country boy

4.cater (provide what is desired or required) 5.rue (regret, repent) 6.plausible (it may or may not be a true) 7.

1)at once catering to reticence and facilitating expression

http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/question?qid=1008101209858

Rosanna Warren

Fidele is in fact a young woman, Imogen, in boys’ clothing.

the female role of Imogen would have been played by a boy or young man, giving the audience a male actor playing a female (Imogen) pretending to be a male (Fidele).

Given what is now clear about Housman’s sexual orientation, it seems plausible that Housman, consciously or not, identified with the doubly cross-dressing Imogen/Fidele, and nurtured a hope that his poems, if not he, would live

As the poem opens, the narrator speaks of his rue-laden heart, raising the question:

Why is he sad?

The second line explains why: his friends are gone.

With rue my heart is laden, Alfred Housman A.E. Housman

With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfood lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.

http://myminormoments.blogspot.tw/2011/01/with-rue-my-heart-is-laden.html

When I was one-and-twenty

The Widow of Ephesus

article

http://daryllorettecafe.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-widow-of-ephesus.html

resources

http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_master_lit_1/9/2554/653959.cw/content/index.html

http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/widow/widowframes/main.html

book review

http://carol-literature2012.blogspot.tw/2012/01/widow-of-ephesus_17.html

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“The Unicorn in the Garden”

“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose”