Unit 4

A Garden of Poems

Reading English Poetry

The words you need to talk about poets and poetry: 五行打油诗

十四行诗节奏

韵，押韵浪漫诗人

修辞格

原作

译作

limericksonnetrhythm

rhymeRomantic poets figure of speech

the original work

the translated work

Main idea of each part:

Part 1.( Par. 1)

Part 2.(Par. 2)

Part 3.(Par. 3~5)

Part 4.(Par. 6~7)

Brief introduction to poetry.

Chinese poetry and poets.

The development of English poetry.

Poems can be bridges between the East and the West.

1.What’s the function of poetry?

2.What does poetry play with?

3. What’s the form of Chinese poetry?

Part1-2

The earliest English poetry

Modern English 16th William Shakespeare

17th John Donne

18th

Pope

John Milton

Part 3 his sonnets Modern English

Surprising images

absence of rhyme at the end of each line

the finest Poet

English Romantic poets 19th

Greatly loved in China

John Keats

William Wordsworth

George Gordon Byron

⑤

⑥

⑦

Isles of Greece

Sonnets and long poems

Nature poems

Modern poets 20th

Robert Frost

⑧

•American modern poet

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

They translated English poetry into Chinese

the introduction of English poetry to China (the end of 19th )

1910---1930

Part 4

True or False

1.The number of lines and characters in each line is quite important for good poems as well as rhythm and rhyme.

2.William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays.

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

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

(T)(T)

(F)(F)

(T)(T)

(F)(F)

English has a short______, but there are still a lot of good English _____ and great ____ around, such as _________ of the 17th century, Pope and John Milton of the ____ century, Worldsword, Byron, and Keats of the ____ century, and Robert Frost of modern times. At the end of the 19th century, ___________ was introduced to _____ by some famous writers such as _______ and _________. Nowadays, more and more people are ________ in reading modern poetry in _______. Reading poetry in English also _______________ finding new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese.

historypoemspoets Shakespeare

18th

19th

English poetry ChinaLu Xun

Guo Moruointerested

Englishopens the door to

Discussion

Q: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, beauty and romance…

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

What do the words in bold refer to.

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

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

---Poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar.

---English poetry’s

Para. 5 Finally, modern poets have their special … in the language and images they use.

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

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

---modern poets

---William Wordsworth,Byron,John Keats

---poems and literature