esson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose Part Three Text Appreciation W BTL E ENTER
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E Part Three ENTER W B T L E
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose Text Appreciation Contents I. Text Analysis 1. Theme 2. Structure 3. Further Discussion I。 Writing Devices 1. Genre and Symbols 2. Figurative Speeches a, Personification b Simile Metaphor C Climax Anticlimax 3. Syntactic Devices III Sentence Paraphrase W B TL E
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E Text Appreciation I. Text Analysis 1. Theme 2. Structure 3. Further Discussion II. Writing Devices 1. Genre and Symbols 2. Figurative Speeches a. Personification b. Simile & Metaphor c. Climax & Anticlimax 3. Syntactic Devices III. Sentence Paraphrase
esson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis Theme The nightingale is the true lover, if there is one she, at least, is Romance, and the student and the girl are, like most of us, unworthy of Romance. Nightingale sacrifices its own life for pure love's sake. A true love needs wholehearted devotion and passion W B TL E The end of theme
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis The nightingale is the true lover, if there is one. She, at least, is Romance, and the student and the girl are, like most of us, unworthy of Romance. Nightingale sacrifices its own life for pure love’s sake. A true love needs wholehearted devotion and passion. Theme The end of Theme
esson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis Structure Part 1(Paras. 1-12): Nightingale struck by"the mystery of love Part 2(Paras. 13-34): Nightingale looking for a red rose to facilitate the love Part 3( Paras. 35-45): Nig htingale sacrificing her life for a red rose Part 4(Paras. 46-54): Student discarding the red rose W B TL E The end of structure
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E Part 1 (Paras. ): Part 2 (Paras. ): Part 3 (Paras. ): Part 4 (Paras. ): I. Text Analysis Structure 1-12 13-34 35-45 Nightingale struck by “the mystery of love” Nightingale looking for a red rose to facilitate the love Nightingale sacrificing her life for a red rose The end of Structure. 46-54 Student discarding the red rose
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis Fairy tale Question: What genre can this story be categorized into? Optimism Pessimism Fairy tales conclude Wilde's fairy tales have no comparison with the cliche happy endings. His tales end mostly in unresolved typical of most fairy tensions, provoking readers tales, They all lived to consider necessary happily ever after, improvements which need to be made within the social implying better order. Even in his most living circumstances popular tales, the for all protagonists die W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis Fairy tale To be continued on the next page. Question: What genre can this story be categorized into? Optimism Pessimism Fairy tales conclude with the cliché typical of most fairy tales, ‘They all lived happily ever after,’ implying better living circumstances for all. Wilde’s fairy tales have no happy endings. His tales end mostly in unresolved tensions, provoking readers to consider necessary improvements which need to be made within the social order. Even in his most popular tales, the protagonists die. comparison
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis 2 Question: What are the symbolic meanings of Red rose"/"Lizard Butterfly"and Nightingale"? red rose-true love, which needs constant For Reference nourishment of passions of the lovers. It can be divided into three stages: love in the heart of a boy and a girl; love in the soul of a man and a maid and love that is perfected by Death, that does not die in the tomb Lizard-cynic, a person who sees little or no good in anything and who has no belief in human progress person who shows this by sneering and being contemptuous W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. red rose—true love, which needs constant nourishment of passions of the lovers. It can be divided into three stages: love in the heart of a boy and a girl; love in the soul of a man and a maid; and love that is perfected by Death, that does not die in the tomb. Lizard—cynic, a person who sees little or no good in anything and who has no belief in human progress; person who shows this by sneering and being contemptuous For Reference Question: What are the symbolic meanings of “Red rose”, “Lizard”, “Butterfly” and “Nightingale”?
esson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis 2 Question: What are the symbolic meanings of Red rose"/Lizard"and Nightingale"? For Reference Nightingale-a truthful, devoted pursuer of love, who dares to sacrifice his own precious lIte W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. Nightingale—a truthful, devoted pursuer of love, who dares to sacrifice his own precious life For Reference Question: What are the symbolic meanings of “Red rose”, “Lizard”, “Butterfly” and “Nightingale”?
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis ② For reference The Nightingale is a small brown bird famous for its beautiful sad song. Throughout literary history there are many poems and stories dedicated to the nightingale, including John Keats poem Ode to a Nightingale and Oscar Wilde's children's story, The Nightingale and the rose W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. For reference: The Nightingale is a small brown bird famous for its beautiful sad song. Throughout literary history there are many poems and stories dedicated to the nightingale, including John Keats’ poem Ode to a Nightingale and Oscar Wilde’s children’s story, The Nightingale and the Rose
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis 3 Question: What's Oscar Wildes belief on love and art? Self-comment on his own life Some said my life was a lie but I always knew it to be the truth; for like the truth was rarely pure and never a figure of simple. paradox and Paradoxical, contradictory, well-turned phrase contradictio n Wildean dichotomy Duality in all aspects fascinates and confuses: the Anglo-Irishman with nationalist sympathies, the protestant with life-long Catholic leanings, the married homosexual; the musician of words and painter of language who confessed that writing bored him W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis Question: What’s Oscar Wilde’s belief on love and art? To be continued on the next page. Self-comment on his own life “Some said my life was a lie but I always knew it to be the truth; for like the truth was rarely pure and never simple.” Paradoxical, contradictory, well-turned phrase Wildean dichotomy Duality in all aspects fascinates and confuses: the Anglo-Irishman with nationalist sympathies; the protestant with life-long Catholic leanings; the married homosexual; the musician of words and painter of language who confessed that writing bored him… a figure of paradox and contradictio n
Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of a figure of paradox things: there was nothing I said or did that did and contradictio not make people wonder. I treated Art as the n supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram W B TL E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. “I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.” a figure of paradox and contradictio n