and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput-where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! He travels to Laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. His final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos-a brutish race of subhumans-and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.
四、诗歌赏析
1.《水仙花》The Daffodils赏析 1.Wordsworth made use of the description in his sister's diary,as well as of his memory of the daffodils in Gowbarrow Park,by Ullswater.Cf.Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal,April 15,1802:"I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones ...; some rested their heads upon these stones,as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced,and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind,that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay,ever glancing,ever changing." 2.'They flash upon that inward eye...':Wordsworth said that these were the two best lines in the poem and that they were composed by his wife. Biography and Assessment: Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England[...]The natural scenery of the English lakes could terrify as well as nurture,as Wordsworth would later testify in the line "I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear," but its generally benign aspect gave the growing boy the confidence he articulated in one of his first important poems,"Lines