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