2. The Wild Honey Suckle
by Philip Freneau
Poet of the American Revolution
Father of American Poetry
Pioneer of the New Romanticism
A gifted and versatile lyric poet
3. What is a wild honey suckle?
野忍冬花，俗称金银花。
It is one of the most beautiful of all wildflowers for its scent and ability
to grow in difficult places
It is grow on acid soils and old mines, railway tracks and is a good
herbaceous plant
4. Appreciation
Section 1 translation
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, 美丽的花呀你长得这么秀丽，
Hid in this silent, dull retreat, 却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地方，
Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, 甜美的花儿开了却没人亲昵，
Unseen thy little branches greet: 招展的小小枝梢也没人观赏：
No roving foot shall crush thee here, 没有荡来荡去的脚把你踩碎，
No busy hand provoke a tear. 没有东攀西摘的手催你落泪。
By Nature's self in white arrayed, 大自然把你打扮的一身洁白，
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, 她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的暮光，
And planted here the guardian shade, 她布置树荫把你护卫起来，
And sent soft waters murmuring by; 又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁；
Thus quietly thy summer goes, 你的夏天就这样静静地消逝，
Thy days declining to repose. 这时候你日见萎蔫终将安息。
5. Section2 translation
Smit with those chams, that must 那些难免消逝的美使我销
decay,
I grieve to see your future doom; 魂
They died--nor were those flowers 想起你未来的结局我就心
more gay, 疼
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's 别的那些花也不比你幸运
power 虽开放在伊甸园中也已凋
Shall leave no vestige of this
flower. 零
无情的寒霜再加秋风的威
From morning suns and evening 力
dews
At first thy little being came: 会叫这花朵消失得一无踪
If nothing once, you nothing lose, 迹
For when you die you are the same;
The space between, is but an
hour, 朝阳和晚露当初曾把你养
The frail duration of flower. 育
让你这小小的生命来到世
04/06/12 上
原来若乌有，没什么可失
6. Deep understanding of the poem
The poet expressed a keen awareness of the
1 loveliness and transience of nature.
2 The poem showed strong feelings for the
natural beauty, which was the characteristic
of romantic poets.
7. What we can learn from the poem?
Point 1
The wild can also be beautiful.
Point 2
Everyone should take an active attitude toward
life. Never avoid challenges for fear of losing
something.
Point 3
One can’t achieve anything under the
shelter and protection.
8. 1 What is the Rhyme Scheme of the
poem?
2 What is the Metrical Patten of the
poem?
1 A-B-A-B-C-C
2 Iambic tetrameter
