Unit 4 A Garden of Poems English Poetry

【望庐山瀑布】 李白 日照香炉生紫烟， 遥看瀑布挂前川。 飞流直下三千尺， 疑是银河落九天。

Chinese Ancient Poets Li Bai Qu Yuan Du Fu

Chinese Ancient Poets Wang Wei Bai Juyi Su Dongpo

Chinese Modern Poets Dai Wangshu Xu Zhimo Shu Ting 《再别康桥》 《致橡树》 《雨巷》

English Poets John Keats Byron Shakespeare John Milton Wordsworth

Fast-reading Questions 1. 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?

Answer 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 2. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or Li Bai? Whose of Su Dongpo? William Wordsworth John Donne George Gordon Byron John Keats

main idea of each paragraph Further reading main idea of each paragraph 1st. para. 2nd. para. 3rd. para. 4th. para. 5th. para. 6th. para. 7th. para. Why we read poetry Chinese poets and poetry the early English poetry English poetry in the 19th century modern English poets the introduction of English poetry to China More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English.

① ② ③ ④ The earliest English poetry sonnets difficult William Shakespeare The earliest English poetry sonnets difficult ① Modern English 16th John Donne ② ③ absence of rhyme 17th John Milton surprising images ④ Pope finest 18th

⑤ ⑥ ⑦ Romantic English _________ poets 19th Greatly loved in China George Gordon Byron ⑤ John Keats ⑥ William Wordsworth ⑦

Modern poets 20th stand closest to us ⑧ Robert Frost

the introduction of English poetry to China (the end of 19th ) 1910---1930 They translated English poetry into Chinese.

Post-reading 1. What is the main idea of the text? Poetry is a good bridge to connect the East with the West. 2. To say that “poems and literature can be bridges” is an image. What other images could you use to express the same idea?

Further understanding Poems and literature can be bridges. Image (比喻） east west bridges Poems and literature can be ties that brings the East and the West together. Poems and literature can be fine wine enjoyed by the East and the West.

Make a timeline that shows which poets were living during which century . Put all the foreign poets named in the passage on the timeline. William Wordsworth John Milton 1900 2000 1600 1700 1800 ③ ⑦ John Donne Alexander Pope ② ④ ⑤ Byron ⑧ ⑥ ① Robert Frost John Keats Shakespeare

In a world lit up by words Explanation Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words 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.

Discussion If a poem is translated into another language, is it still the same poem? What are some differences?

1.Are the two poem the same? 静夜思 李白 床前明月光，疑是地上霜； 举头望明月，低头思故乡。 A Tranquil Night   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

Something of the spirit of the original works is lost. Discussion Something of the spirit of the original works is lost. rhythm rhyme figures of speech etc.

Welcome to the Garden of poems !

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. For when dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow.

Homework Do you think that poems and songs have anything in common? Share your ideas with us in the next class. enjoy

A sonnet by Shakespeare From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

main idea of each paragraph 1st. para. Why we read poetry 2nd. para. Chinese poets and poetry 3rd. para. the early English poetry 4th. para. English poetry in the 19th century 5th. para. modern English poets 6th. para. the introduction of English poetry to China. 7th. para. More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English.