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高级英语(第三版)第一册第十三棵 No signposts in the sea.ppt


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Lesson Thirteen
No Signposts in the Sea

Victoria Mary Sackville- West
Teaching Objectives
To learn to read between the lines
To appreciate the literary text
To learn words and expressions
The Author: Victoria Mary Sackville- West
(1892-1962) an English poet and novelist,
a member of the Bloomsbury group, an
informal group of literary and artistic
friends, a close friend of Virginia Woolf.
Her poems include The Land (1926),
Solitude (1938), The Garden (1946), All
Passion Spent (1931). Her poetry is
traditional in form, reminiscent of the
work of the English nature poets of the
age of romanticism.
A prolific writer, the author of 15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.
Synopsis of the Text
Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.
Theme of the Text
This piece of writing presents how the main character Edmund Carr transforms from a hard materialist to a liberated being free from all his former frailties on his sea voyage with his secret live Laura.
Structure of the Text
Part I: Paras. 1-2
It serves as an introduction to the setting and all the three characters and their relationship of the story: Edmund Carr, Laura and Colonel Dalrymple.
Part II: Paras. 3-33
This part emphasizes Carr’plete transformation from his former values about the world to his present ones. The narrator Carr sets out to review his surprise change

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