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文導 note week 15

1. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” by  W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

2. vocabulary :

elegy ( n.) a mournful or plaintive poem or song, esp. a lament for the dead;  

                poetry or a poem written in elegiac couplets or stanzas

tedious ( adj.) causing fatigue or tedium

hyperbole ( n.) a deliberate exaggeration used for effect

3.Modern Language Association (MLA): Format, Bibliography, Style, Convention

American Psychological Association (APA)

4. “ para -”means beyond or outside of

     paradise :heaven as the ultimate abode or state of the righteous

     paraphrase : an expression of a statement or text in other words, esp. in order to clarify

     parable : short story that uses familiar events to illustrate a religious or ethical point

 5.講解 final paper 格式及寫作方向