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草の葉 Walt Whitmanの物語


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Walt Whitmanについての物語

しかも
英語学習者に助かるのは標準的なゆっくりしたはっきりした発音の英語で

さらにはどの番組にもtranscriptがついていること

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標準的に1時間ぐらいの長さ
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だから
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*****
Walt Whitman のtranscriptの一部。

American Experience: Walt Whitman

Karen Karbiener, scholar: We're at this incredibly volatile time. The country is divided into two.

Allan Gurganus, novelist: And yet there was a kind of listlessness among the population, a passivity and a drift and a cynicism had infected the country.

Narrator: As the country slouched toward Civil War in the 1850s, one concerned citizen was trying mightily to wake his countrymen to the dangers of their bitterness and despond. He'd already spent his own small treasure to publish a book of poetry called Leaves of Grass. The American democratic experiment needed saving, he had implored in Leaves, was worth saving. For his effort, he'd been called "preposterous," "nonsensical," "grotesque," and "scurvy." A lesser man would have been shamed into silence. Walt Whitman determined to speak louder. He was willing to fight the tide all the way, to stand fast against derision, neglect, and the relentless undertow of his own doubt, to sacrifice his financial well being, his family, his personal life and his health — all in the service of forcing America to face its strange new self.

Walt Whitman (as portrayed by actor): Never more shall I escape Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me, Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night, under the yellow and sagging moon, The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within, The unknown want, the destiny of me.

(On-screen text): Long Island, NY, 1823

Narrator: America's first great poet entered the world at the margins — on a working class farm on Long Island, New York, into a family that held tight to the promise of the young country. His ancestors, Walt was reminded, had sacrificed blood in the cause of American independence.

Ed Folsom, scholar: His brothers who came after him were all named after American heroes. We have George Washington Whitman, and we have Thomas Jefferson Whitman, and we have Andrew Jackson Whitman. So he grew up with George Washington and Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson sitting at his table with him.

Allan Gurganus, novelist: These were the common people in the literal sense of the word. And the freedom that he found in this lack of pedigree assured his right to choose the person that he wanted to become.
by endoms | 2010-03-01 00:29 | 英語 勉強する?