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Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle
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I. Dictation
II. Poem Appreciation
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Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923), British short-story writer, was born in Wellington, New Ze
aland. She is considered one of the greatest
of the short-story form.
At the age of 18 she in London to study music and to herself as a writer. In 1918 she married English literary ,John Middleton Murry.
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masters
settled
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Mansfield's middle class provided the setting for many of her stories and mortality—perhaps due to her
illness—dominated her writing. Her
years were burdened with ,
illness, jealousy and —all
reflected from her work in the bitter
of marital and family relationships of
her middle-class characters.
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background
creative
loneliness
alienation
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As a New Zealand's most famous writer, she was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Her short st
ories are also notable for their use of
. Much influenced by Russia
n writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted
events and _____ changes in human behavior.
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trivial
stream of
consciousness
subtle
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Camomile TeCamomile Teaa
Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree.
How little I thought, a year ago, In the horrible cottage upon the Lee That he and I should be sitting so And sipping a cup of camomile tea.
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——by Katherine Mansfield
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Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.
We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee.
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Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, The tap is dripping peacefully;
The saucepan shadows on the wall Are black and round and plain to see.
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