Unit 4 A Garden of Unit 4 A Garden of PoemsPoems

•English Poetry

ReadingReading

Learning aimsA: words and phrases

glory,sonnet,absence,translate,scan,rhyme

active ,feature,,spirit,literature,embrace,

atmosphere,style,image, remind sb.of sth.,

call up, stand out, lead to, come into being,

B:Learn how to explain an English poem and how to use an image in writing.

【望庐山瀑布】

李白

遥看瀑布挂前川。日照香炉生紫烟，

飞流直下三千尺，疑是银河落九天。

1. What are the differences between poetry and other forms of literature?

① Poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar. ② Poetry is difficult to write,but interesting to

read.③ Poetry calls up all the colors, feelings,experiences and curious images of a dream world.2. Whose poetry reminds Chinese

readers of Du Fu or Li Bai? Whose of Su Dongpo?

William WordsworthGeorge Gordon ByronJohn Keats

John Donne

Poetry

bring… together

play with …

calls up…

Colours, feelings,

experiences and curious images of a dream world.

Colours, feelings,

experiences and curious images of a dream world.

Para 1. Para 1. The c of poetry.

haracteristics

杜 甫 王 维李 白

Para 2. Chinese and .Para 2. Chinese and .

A long history….active. Poems by….stand out in the halls of gloryForm ： the number of lines, the number of characters in each line. Patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

poets poetry

Modern English William Shakespeare

17th

John Donne

18th

Alexander Pope

John Milton

Play Play sonnesonnett

the the absencabsence of e of rhyme rhyme at the at the end of end of each each lineline

the the finest finest poetrpoetry in y in EnglaEnglandnd

surprisisurprising ng imagesimagesremind

Su dongpo

The earliest English poetry

Para: English poetry and poets (from the earliest- ).

18th

(difficult)

( end of 16th

Para4:English _______ poets Para4:English _______ poets of ______.of ______.

John Keats (1795 - 1821)(1795 - 1821)

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)(1770 - 1850)

Byron

(1788 - (1788 - 1824 )1824 )

The style and atmosphere in their poems has often led to comparison comparison withwith poets such as poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai

GreatGreatly ly

loved loved in in

ChinaChina

sonnets ,long.. nature poems Isles of Greece

the 19the 19thth romanticromantic

Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

Para5: Why modern poets have______ ________?

Stand closest to us both in the language and images they use.

special attraction

American poet

Time Event

Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry.

Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry.

A great moment for European literature to come to China

A great moment for European literature to come to China

Para6:The _________of English poetry to China.

Lu XunGuo Moruo

introduction

1910-the late 1930s

The end of the 19th century

1. Give you much more choice

Para 6. The __________ of reading Englishadvantagespoetry.

3. Open the door to finding new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese.

2. Something of the spirit of the original work is lost in the translation edition .

Quietly, we embrace

In a world lit up by words

Quietly, we embrace

In a world lit up by words

静静地我们相拥

在这个用语言照亮的世界里。Mu Dan

Poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the West.

Alexander Pope

George Gordon Byron

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Robert Frost①

②

③

④

⑤⑥

⑦

⑧

1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

William Shakespeare

John Donne

John MiltonPost-reading

poetry Time Characteristics poetsChinese has a long history

early …poetry

English 17th

The end of the 17th

18th century

19th century

Modern poets

The end of the 19th

Du Fu,Li Bai,Wang Wei

difficult to understand

the use of surprising images

Shakespeare, Donne,

The absence of rhyme at the end of each line

John Milton

Romantic poemsLong poems

Wordsworth, Baron, Keats

Pope ,

Stand close to us both in the language and images they use

The American poet Robert Frost

be introduced to China

translated by Lun Xun, Guo Moruo

When You Are Old ----WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

　 When you are old and gray and full of sleep　　　 And nodding by the fire, take down this book,　　　 And slowly read, and dream of the soft look　　　 Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep ；

　 How many loved your moments of glad grace,

　　　 And loved your beauty with love false or true ；　　　 But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,　　　 And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

　 And bending down beside the glowing bars,　　　 Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled　　　 And paced upon the mountains overhead,　　　 And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

当你老了 --- 叶芝 当你老了，白发苍苍，睡思昏沉， 　 在炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌，

　 慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和　 回想它们过去的浓重的阴影；

　 多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时候　　 出于假意或真心地爱慕你的美貌，　　 只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂，　 爱你老去的容颜的痛苦的皱纹。

躬身在红光闪耀的炉火旁，　　凄然地低语，爱为何消逝，　　在头顶的山上，它缓缓踱着步子，　　将脸隐没在群星之中。

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date…

能不能让我来把你比作夏日？

你可是更加温和，更加可爱：

狂风会吹落五月里开的好花儿，

夏季的生命又未免结束得太快……

Sonnet 十四行诗。这是一种抒情短诗，一般说来有十四行，每一行有特定的韵律， 而行与行之间有固定的押韵格式。

Sonnets

Poem is the universal language of mankind.

诗歌是全人类的共通语言。

Poem was given to man to express his thought.

诗歌赋予人类是为了表达思想

Homework

1. Retell the text.

2. Read and translate several good English poems.

3. Get some information about famous poets on internet if possible.

what is love Love is giving ,

Love is living ,

Love is taking someone’s load,

Love helps them along the road.

Love is caring,

Love is sharing,

Love will seek the best for others,

Love treats everyone as brothers.

爱是给予，

爱是生活，

爱是肩负他人重担，

爱是一路帮助他人。

爱是关怀，

爱是分享，

爱是为别人争取最好，

爱是将人人当成兄弟。

Is the translation of a poem the

same to the original work ?

静夜思

床前明月光，疑是地上霜。

举头望明月，低头思故乡。

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed__

Could there have been a frost already ?

Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.

Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

In the Quiet Night

Something of the spirit of the original works is lost.

rhythm

rhyme

figures of

speech