Sherlock Holmes
The Most Famous Englishman
Why I choose to write about him?
Literature is a word seems somewhat sacred; I'm sure our literature teacher is in the full
conviction of that. Take a look at our textbook: from Shakespeare to Bacon; two laureate poets
Byron and Tennyson, the ideologist Emerson and the hermit Thoreau, and so on. An amiable and
worshipful lady as she is, she appreciates the grace embodied in the great pieces: what we learned
in her literature course was the most classic and profound sections and chapters. But to tell the
truth, Arnold's lines really confused me, I just couldn't understand what "the eternal note of
sadness"meant; fortunately, after Mrs.Gao's careful illumination, I got a picture - though obscure
- of his profound thinking. Other puzzles are here and there, for instance, "To be or not to be", this
is quite a question that I still don't know what Shakespeare wanted to tell us, even after Mrs.Gao's
explanation. You know, literature is not so easy......
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