Creative Writing

Week TwoWeek Two1.1. Review: p.2-p.5 (poetry)Review: p.2-p.5 (poetry)2.2. Homework and discussionHomework and discussion3.3. Metaphor and metonymyMetaphor and metonymy4.4. Robert Frost: p.6-p.8Robert Frost: p.6-p.8

Poetry

Aesthetic quality/ notional and semantic content

Musical and incantatory Poetry make, create Sound: EX. Alliteration

Catachresis

Figure of association in which a highly unusual or outlandish comparison is made between two things. This figure moves beyond a metaphor by degrees the language used for comparative purposes is strikingly at odds with conventional usage.

Evaluation of catachresis

The use of a word in a context that differs from its proper application. This figure is generally considered a vice; however, Quintilian defends its use as a way by which one adapts existing terms to applications where a proper term does not exist.

The elbow of his nose?

In this example, what is meant is conveyed through a misapplication of one part of the body to another.As one said that disliked a picture with a crooked nose, "The elbow of his nose is disproportionable" —J. Smith

Making a connection

Conceptual integration--also known as "blending" or "mental binding"--is a basic mental operation whose uniform structural and dynamic properties apply over many areas of thought and action, including metaphor and metonymy.

Life is a game/ A game is live!

1. Game playground paradise angels stars ___________ _____________

2. A game is live silver memory sky _______ ___________________

metaphor

A comparison made by referring to one thing as another.

Examples No man is an island —John Donne For ever since that time you went away

I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood — Maurice Sceve Life is a beach. Who captains the s

hip of state?

Your Metaphors

EnglishEnglish MusicMusic HomeworkHomework WordsWords ComputersComputers MorningMorning

The Road Not Taken Robert Frost

1. Listen to the poem http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07030D76

2. Read it again and again.3. Give your comments or response.4. Share your ideas with classmates.

1

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I

could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted

wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the

same,

3

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to

way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

4

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

metaphor

Woods Roads Traveler “Less traveled by”

Travel . .

Travel stood step doubted come back --> sigh

Diverge both one / the other fair the same made all the difference

Long ages and ages

Verbs/ adjectives

Looked down in the undergrowth Sorry the better claim doubt Yellow grassy fair better trodden

black

羅伯特‧弗羅斯特(ROBERT FROST)

未選擇的路The Road Not Taken

http://usinfo.org/chinese_cd/AmReader/BIG5/p535.htm

　

1

黃葉林中出條岔路，無奈一人難於兼顧， 順著一條婉蜒小路，久久佇立極目遠眺，只見小徑拐進灌木。

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2

接著選擇了另一條， 同樣清楚似乎更好， 引人踩踏鋪滿茂草， 踏在其間難分彼此， 儘管真有兩條道。

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

3

清晨裏躺著兩條路， 一樣葉被無人踏髒， 願將第一條來日補， 但知條條相連遠途， 懷疑日後怎能回返。

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

4

在很久以後某一地， 我將歎息訴說於人， 兩路岔開在樹林裏， 我選的那條足跡稀， 而一切差別由此起。

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

林　潔

黃色的樹林中分出兩條道， 可惜我不能兩條都選。 一人豈能同行兩條道， 我久立而難前。 放眼朝一條道望去， 直到轉角擋住了視野。 再看第二條路，同樣佳美， 也許還有更好的得著， 因它草綠待踏。 儘管那另一條道， 差不多同樣候人踏上。

http://www.oc.org/big5_txt/oc4448.htm

那日清晨兩條路同在眼前 都是落葉未經腳步踏 哦，下一次再試那第一條吧！ 但心裡深知一路通一路，越踏越深， 我疑惑應否回返原地。 我會以嘆息傳告此舉 在許久、許久的未來： 兩條道在樹林中分叉而出，我－－ 我選中了那條少人行走的路， 它因此帶來了全然不同的結局。

Homework Reading: p.9-11 writing practice (I): _____/ And that has ma

de all the difference. writing practice (II): metaphors to describe

(1) university (2) freedom Read more by/about Emily Dickinson Compare two Chinese translation of “The

Road Not Taken.”