失乐园》随感-语言文化.doc

失乐园》随感-语言文化
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摘要:《失乐园》是一部气势恢弘的史诗式作品,全诗由12部诗篇组成,讲述了基督教《圣经》中撒旦(Satan)化身为蛇,引诱亚当和夏娃(Adam and Eve人类的始祖)违背上帝意旨,最后失去上帝的恩宠,被逐出失乐园的故事。作者通过对圣经故事的改编反映了其在王政复辟后内心的痛苦以及对资产阶级始终不渝的态度,文体雄伟庄严。
关键词:失乐园革命宗教人物形象
Abstract:
“Paradise Lost” is Minton’s masterpiece .It is a long epic in 12 books,
written in blank verse. The story were taken from the Old Testament: the creation
of the earth and Adam and Eve, the fallen angels in hell plotting against God, Satan’s temptation of Eve, and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden .Satan and his followers are banished from heaven and driven into hell, but even here in hell, mist flames and poisonous fumes, Satan and his adherents are not discouraged. The poem ,as we are told at the outset, was “to justify the ways of God to man”,ie to advocate submission to the Almighty.
The epic shows the writer’s misery after the Restoration, and his determination for revolution. The style of the epic is grand, which is the result of his life-long classical and biblical study.
Keywords: Paradise Lost, revolution, religion, the personalities of the characters
一、作者简介
约翰`弥尔顿(John Milton 1608—1674),17世纪英国杰出的诗人和思想家,是继莎士比亚后最伟大的诗人,称雄与动荡的充满***和暴力的17世纪,他的一生和创作大约可分为三个时期:他16岁时入剑桥大学,并开始用拉丁问和英文写诗;1638—1639年间,他前往欧洲旅行,并同当时被囚禁的伽俐略见过面,这一时期主要作品是一些短诗,比较优秀的有《利西达斯》(Lycidas,1637)等。1639年,英国革命即将爆发,他返回英国。随后的20多年中,他积极投身英国革命,发表了大量的散文和政论文,为英国革命和共和政府奔走呼吁,其中比较著名的有《为英国人民申辩》(Areop