“A simple traditional song or poem for children” (Oxford Dictionaries)
The Difficulty of Defining Nursery Rhymes
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Nursery Rhymes and (cynical) jokes
– rebellion against authority
- releasing taboos in polite society
I. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564~ April 23, 1616)
1. Shakespeare’s Works
: Comedy, History, Tragedy, Poetry
2. Shakespeare’s Plays
: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth
3. Shakespeare’s Reputation
(1) Robert Greene, 1592 : ”...supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you.”
(2) John Dryden, 1668 : ”
A. Childhood
One of the few stories that survive from Alfred's early life relates that his mother, Osburh, showed her sons a beautifully illuminated volume of Saxon poetry and promised to make a gift of it to the first of them who was able to read it. Alfred quickly learned to read it aloud, and was made a gift of the book when he was only six years old. Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a
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(3) Walt Whitman(1819-1992)
I-VI of "Song of Myself", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
(4) Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes--", "I heard a Fly buzz--When I died--"
-19세기 영국시-
(1) William Blake(1757-1827) : "The Chimney Sweeper"
from Songs of Innocence
"The Chimney Sweeper"
1 When my mother died I was ve
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(3) Walt Whitman(1819-1992)
I-VI of "Song of Myself", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
(4) Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes--", "I heard a Fly buzz--When I died--"
-19世紀 英國詩-
(1) William Blake(1757-1827) : "The Chimney Sweeper"
from Songs of Innocence
"The Chimney Sweeper"
1 When my mother died I was v