On the writing style in Dream Children A Reverie 浅析梦中的孩子-一段奇想的写作风格.doc

On the writing style in Dream Children: A Reverie 浅析《梦中的孩子:一段奇想》的写作风格 abstract：charles lamb, an 18th century essayist in english literature, gains the rare high position in essay writing for his striking and inimitable style, which is applauded and admired by generations and still worth studying today. being one of his most celebrated essays, dream children: a reverie is selected here to demonstrate charles lamb’s highly artistic writing style full of humor, detail illustration and sentiment。 key words:writing style humor detail illustration sentiment lamb’s humorous style comes first in dream children: a reverie, for it is best reflected and can be read out between the lines in this essay. “here john smiled, as much as to say, ‘that would be foolish indeed ’”,“here alice little right foot played an involuntary movement, till upon my looking grave, it desisted”, “here john silly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes”, “ here , the children tell a cry and prayed me to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother ”, and “here alice put out one of her dear mother’s looks , too tender to be upbriding”. such accurate and humorous description of the children not only offers the vivid sketches of the children’s manners that will seize our impression immediately when we occasionally glance over them, but also inspires us with a new, intense opinion of the wistful beauty of children—their imitation, their facile and generous emotion, their anxiety to be correct, their ingenuous haste to escape from grief into joy. in dream children: a reverie, the detail illustration in lamb’s writing is displayed through his great care for choosing and employing words, which can best attest in the detailed description of the blacksware house in hertfordshire. “ that huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms , with their worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaked panels, with the gliding almost rubbed out --- sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens…