1. Welcome to the Garden of poems!
Unit 4
Welcome to the Garden of poems!

2. Pre-reading
Do you know any Chinese poets? Can you name some?
Du Fu
Li Bai

3. 【望庐山瀑布】
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。
---李白

4. Can you tell who are the people below?
William Shakespeare
( )
John Donne
( )
John Keats
( )
Lord Byron
( )

5. 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?

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Careful Reading
Modern English came into being from about the end of the ___ century.
A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th
The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers of the poems buy ___
A. Dufu B. Libai C. Su Dongpo D. Guo Moruo
3. Byron’s Isles of Greece (1824) is an example of ____
A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry D. modern poetry
(A)
(C)
(C)

9. C. John Donne D. Robert Frost
Careful Reading
The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning of _____century.
A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th
____’s poetry reminds Chinese readers of the poems by Du Fu and Li Bai.
Shakespeare B. Byron
C. John Donne D. Robert Frost
(D)
(B)

10. Task: A timeline Alexander Pope John Milton John Donne Wordsworth④
John Milton ③
John Donne ②
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
Wordsworth
Byron ⑤ ① ⑦ ⑧
Shakespeare ⑥
Robert Frost
John Keats

11. Poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar.
II. 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

12. Para. 4 The style and atmosphere in their poems has often…
William Wordsworth,Byron,John Keats
Para. 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

13. Careful-Reading Para. 1 Why we read poetry. Chinese poets and poetry.
Early English poets.
Para. 4
The 19th century English poets.
Para. 5
Modern English poets
The introduction of English poetry
into China
Para. 6
Para. 7
Why more people are interested in English poetry

14. 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 careful.

15. Website www.shakespeare.com www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne
keats.com

16. ON THE SEA John Keats It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell
Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
Often 'tis in such gentle temper found,
That scarcely will the very smallest shell
Be mov'd for days from where it sometime fell,
When last the winds of Heaven were unbound.
Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vex'd and tir'd,
Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;
Oh ye! whose ears are dinn'd with uproar rude,
Or fed too much with cloying melody -
Sit ye near some old Cavern's Mouth, and brood
Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd!

17. Byron
John Donne
John Milton
John Keats
Wordsworth