Pre-reading Do you know any Chinese poetDo you know any Chinese poet

s? Can you name some?s? Can you name some?

Du Fu

Li Bai

Su Dongpo

Chinese Ancient Poets

Bai Juyi Wang Wei

Xu Zhimo Shu Ting

Chinese Modern Poets

《再别康桥》 《致橡树》Dai Wangsu

《雨巷》

John Milton

ByronJohn Keats

Wordsworth

Shakespeare

English Poets

ReadingReading

Parts Paras Main ideas

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Part4

Para.1 Brief introduction to poetry

Para. 2 Chinese poetry and poets

Para.3.4&5 History of English poetry

Para. 6&7Poems can be bridges between the east and the west

Find the main idea of the paras

True or False 1.Poetry is quite difficult to write and boring

to read.2.The number of lines and characters in each

line is quite important for good poems as well as rhythm and rhyme.

3.William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays.

4.According to the time, the correct order of the poets should be: .Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, John Milton, and John Donne.

5..Romantic poems and nature poems are two styles of English poems.

6.We have read English poems since Tang Dynasty.

7.Translating poems into other languages can not only help people to read more but also understand it without losing any spirit.

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The earliest English poetry

Modern English 16th William Shakespeare

17th John Donne

18th

Pope

John Milton

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② ③

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difficultsonnet

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surprising images

absence of rhyme

finest

Some details of English poetry

1. Modern English came into being from about the middle of the ____ century.

A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th

2. The poetry of Marvell reminds Chinese readers of the poems by ____.

A. Du Fu B. Li Bai C. Su Dongpo D. Gou Moruo

3. Byron’s “Isles of Greece” is an example of _____.

A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry D. modern poetry

4. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning of the _____ century.

A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th. D. 20th

5. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese translation is ____.

A. that you have more advice

B. that something of the spirit is lost

C. that you understand it better

D. that you learn how to express yourself in new ways

6. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Poetry is a good bridge to connect the East wit the west.

B. Different periods of English poems.

C. Modern poems of English.

D. Differences between Chinese and English poetry.

7. From the text, we can infer that ____.

A. we’d better read poems in English

B. translated poems can hardly express intrinsic ( 本质的 ) meaning

of original poems.

C. there is no advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese

translation

D. Chinese translation poems are as good as English poems

床前明月光，疑是地上霜。

举头望明月，低头思故乡。

静夜思

李白

1) In the Still of the Night （徐忠杰译）

I descry bright moonlight in front of my bed. I suspect it to be hoary frost on the floor.

I watch the bright moon, as I tilt back my head. I yearn, while stooping, for my homeland more.

2) A Tranquil Night ( 许渊冲译 ） Abed, I see a silver light,I wonder if it's frost aground.Looking up, I find the moon bright;Bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned.

3 ） In the Quiet Night (Tr. Witter Bynner) So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed---Could there have been a frost already? Lifting my head to look, I found that it was moonlight.Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

Discussion

Are poems good for our life? What can we get from poems?

1. Poems bring passion ( 激情 ) to our life.

2. Poems help us to understand life, virtues, beauty and romance…

3. Poems make us know, we are here,we can make our life and the world more

colorful!

William·Shakespeare

(1564-1616)莎士比亚，英国伊莉萨白时代诗人、大戏剧家。幼年贫苦失学，二十二岁时至伦敦为剧场演员，后为剧场修改古代戏曲，继乃自创剧本。杰作三十五种，剖析人性，刻划入微。所著十四行诗有短歌集等，喜剧有仲夏夜之梦、威尼斯商人等，剧本有哈姆雷特、罗蜜欧与朱丽叶等，历史剧有西泽大帝、亨利第五等。

Shakespeare is most famous for his plays

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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。

John Donne

(1572-1631)

约翰 · 多恩（ 1572-1631 ），英国诗人，出生在伦敦一个富有的天主教家庭。多恩是“玄学派诗歌”的代表人物，作品主要有《海上风暴》、《圣十四行诗》等。

His use of surprising images reminds readers of Su Dongpo

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John Milton

(1608-1674)

约翰 · 弥尔顿（ 1608-1674 ），英国诗人。主要文学作品是两首长诗：《失乐园》（ 1677 ）和《复乐园》（ 1671 ）以及诗剧《力士参孙》（ 1671 ）。在英国诗人中，弥尔顿的地位仅排在莎士比亚之后。

His work became famous for the absence

of rhyme at the end of each line

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Alexander Pope

(1688-1744)

亚历山大 · 蒲柏（ 1688-1744 ），英国诗人。主要作品有《批评论》（ 1711 ）和哲理诗《人论》（ 1733-1734 ）等，后者反映了“凡存在的都是合理的”这一哲学信念。蒲柏翻译了古希腊荷马的史诗，并且编辑了《莎士比亚全集》。

He wrote the finest poetry in England

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John Keats

(1795-1821)

约翰 ·济慈（ 1795-1821 ），英国诗人。济慈创作的第一首诗是《仿斯宾塞》，接着又写了许多优秀的十四行诗。他还根据古希腊一个美丽神话写成了《安狄米恩》，全诗想像丰富，洋溢着对自由的渴望，表现了反古典主义的进步倾向。鼎盛时期的作品有《伊莎贝拉》、《圣亚尼节前夜》、《许佩里恩》等著名长诗和《夜莺颂》、《希腊古瓮颂》、《秋颂》等名篇。济兹遗留下来的诗篇被认为完美地体现了西方浪漫主义诗歌的特色，并被推崇为欧洲浪漫主义运动的杰出代

The sonnets and long poems by John Keats

have long been favourites

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William Wordsworth

(1770-1850)

威廉·华兹华斯（ 1770-1850 ），英国著名湖畔派诗人， 1843 年被封为“桂冠诗人”。早年作品有《黄昏漫步》、与柯尔律治合作出版的《抒情歌谣集》等；后期作品有《露茜》组诗、《不朽颂》、《义务颂》、《远足》和著名长诗《序曲》。华兹华斯的作品意境清新、形象生动、语言质朴、擅长歌颂优雅恬静的自然景物，喜欢描绘大自然中活动的普通人形象，如《孤独的收割者》。

He is well-known for his nature poems.He spent

much of his time in the English Lake District.

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George Gordon Byron

(1788-1824)

乔治·戈登·拜伦（ 1788-1824 ），英国诗人。 1812 年发表的《恰尔德。哈罗尔德游记》（第 1 、 2章）是他的成名作。 1816年，拜伦在意大利写了恰尔德。哈罗尔德游记》的第 3 、 4 两章；这部抒情叙事长诗和未完成的巨著《唐璜》是他最著名的代表作。他的诗歌在欧洲和中国都有很大的影响。

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His famous work is Isle of Greece

Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

罗伯特 ·弗罗斯特（ 1874-1963 ），美国诗人。他于 1924 年、 1931 年、 1937 年、1943 年四次获得普利策奖。他的诗往往以描写新英格兰的自然景色或风土人情开始，渐渐进入哲理的境界。8

He is a famous modern poet in America

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。

When people from one country read the poems from another, they will be struck by what is inside the poem, so they will understand each other and become good friends.

What do the words in bold refer to.

Para. 1 That makes poetry difficult to write, but very interesting to read.

Poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar.

Para. 3 Despite its short history,there is a lot of good poetry around.

English poetry’s

Task 1

Para. 4 The style and atmosphere in their poems has often…

William Wordsworth,Byron,John KeatsPara. 5 Finally, modern poets have

their special ……in the language and images they use.

modern poets

Para. 7 They can help us to understand each other better,…

poems and literature

Questions1. What are the differences between poetry and other forms of literature?2. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or Li Bai? Whose of Su Dongpo?

Fast-reading

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

Answer

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 Wordsworth

George Gordon Byron

John Keats

John Donne

What are the same characteristics of Li Bai and John Keats?

1.The poems they wrote are all very beautiful.

2.They’re all Romantic poets.

Task 3