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I. About the Novel

Daffodowndilly by A. A. Milne

 

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, 
She wore her greenest gown; 
She turned to the south wind 
And curtsied up and down. 
She turned to the sunlight 
And shook her yellow head, 
And whispered to her neighbour: 
"Winter is dead." 

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II. About the Novelist

A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne with son, Christopher Robin Milne and Pooh Bear

       

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander Milne, 1882–1956), British humorist, playwright, and children's writer. Best known for his children's poetry and for his toy stories, Winnie‐the‐Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Milne was also intrigued by the form and conventions of the fairy tale and wrote a number of literary fairy tales for adults and for children. Indeed, according to his own account in It's Too Late Now (1939), as the youngest of three sons, he grew up half‐expecting the charmed future fairy tales predicted for him. At Henley House, the small school run by his father in London, he showed outstanding promise in mathematics and won a scholarship to Westminster School at the remarkably early age of 11. Deprived of his father's imaginative teaching, however, he soon lost interest in schoolwork. His hobby of writing light verse in collaboration with his brother Ken became an avocation, and at Cambridge University his chief ambition was to edit Granta, then known as the Cambridge Punch. Having scraped through with a Third Class degree in mathematics, Milne spent several precarious years in London as a freelance writer before being invited, at 24, to be Punch's assistant editor. Although his Liberal politics prevented his being asked to join the Punch Table (where editorial policy was determined) until 1910, his witty and light‐hearted sketches found an enthusiastic audience and were repeatedly collected and republished. Milne married Daphne de Sélincourt in 1913, but this happy period ended with World War I. Although Milne survived the trenches, the degrading years of military service left him a committed pacifist. After the war, he turned to playwriting—in the early 1920s, he was Britain's most popular dramatist—and, at the suggestion of Rose Fyleman, to writing light verse for children. The phenomenal success of When We Were Very Young (1924), Now We Are Six (1927), and the Pooh books left Milne unwillingly but permanently typecast as a children's writer, though he continued to publish plays, novels, stories, and essays into the early 1950s.

 

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III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - rhyme（韻）
  This poem has several same rhyme.

• She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, 
  She wore her greenest gown; 
• She turned to the south wind  
  She turned to the sunlight
• And curtsied up and down. 
  And shook her yellow head, 
  And whispered to her neighbour: 
   

B. Reaction Point - Personification ( 擬人法 )
"She" of this poem is flower.

C. Reaction Point - Expression(表現)
A petal is being expressed with sun-bonnet.

D. My General Opinion
This poem is very beautiful because , a lot of words about nature are used.