Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Land of Nod
- Children poem.
- It is written in a set of 4 stanzas.
- It follows an iambic
tetrameter.
- It is a rhyming poem of four
quatrains with the rhyme scheme of
AABB CCDD EEFF GGBB HHII.
- This poem is about the experience of
dreaming, how we tend forget the things we
heard in our dream or seeing weird things
and going to frightening places.
- Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Born on
November
13, in
edinburgh,
scotlant.
- Came from a long line of
prominet engineers.
- His first successful
novel, Treasure Island
was published in 1884.
- By 1894, Stevenson had become
increasingly depressed,
convinced the best of his work
behind him.
- On the evening of December 3,1894
he collapsed possibly due to a
cerebral hemorrhage, and died.
- He wrote that he wished his
illnesses would kill him.
- A representative of Neo-romanticism
during The modernism period of English
literature, Stevenson was an incredibly
popular and successful writer.
- Now ranks as the
26th most
trasnlated outhor
in the world.
- For many cultures The Land of Nod can
refers to the mythical land of sleep.
- The Land of Nod is a place mentioned in the Book of
Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "on the east of
Eden".
- It was the place where Cain was exiled after Cain
had murdered his brother Abel.