1. English Poetry A Garden of Poems No.4 Middle School of
Reading
English Poetry
No.4 Middle School of
Huining Lu Jianling

2. Famous poets in China
Li Bai
Du Fu
Wang Wei

3. Words and expressions:
play with 玩耍,熟练运用
grammar 语法
call up 召唤，使人想起，调动(力量、人员等)
stand out 远远超过某人(物)
glory 光荣;荣誉;荣耀的事;壮丽
sonnet 十四行诗
John Donne 约翰.多恩
John Milton 约翰.弥尔顿
absence 不在; 缺席; 缺乏
Alexander Pope 亚历山大.蒲柏
William Wordsworth 威廉.华兹华斯

4. Words and expressions:
district 地区,区域
the Lake District (英格兰西北部的)湖区
isle (用于诗歌或地名)岛
atmosphere 气氛,情绪,大气,大气层
introduction 序言,介绍,引进
translate 翻译
translation 翻译,译文
embrace 拥抱
light up 照亮
come into being 形成,产生

5. Read the text quickly, then fill in the blanks according to the text.
1.Modern English started from about the end of the ______ century.
2.The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers of the poems by __________.
3. Byron’s Isles of Greece (1824) is an example of ______ poetry.
4. _____ and________ translated English poetry into Chinese between 1910 and the late 1930s.
16th
Su Dongpo
nature
Lu Xun
Guo Moruo

6. Fill in the blanks according to the text.
Para. 1
More than any other form of literature, poetry plays with _____, ____ and ______. That makes poetry difficult to write, but very interesting to read. Poetry also calls up all the ____, _____ and _____ _____of a dream world.
topic: D
the ___ of poetry.
A. places B. times C. history D. features
sounds
words
grammar
colors
feelings
curious images

7. topic: Para. 2 The form of Chinese poems is very important:
the number of ____ and ________ in each line.
Poetry often follows special patterns of _____
and _____.
topic:
the features of Chinese poetry
lines
characters
rhythm
rhyme

8. Para. 3 Time Characteristic Poets sonnet Shakespeare century
17th
century
the use of
surprising
images
18th
the end of the 16th
century
John Donne,
John Milton
Alexander
Pope

9. Paras. 4-5 19th century romantic poems & long poems nature poems
Modern
poets
stand close to us both in the language & the images they use
John Keats
Wordsworth
G. Gordon Byron
the American poet
Robert Frost

10. the introduction of English poetry to China
Para.6
when?
Lu Xun
Guo Moruo

11. Para. 7
1. give us more ______
2. without losing the ____ of the original work.
3. find new ways of _________ yourself
4. understand ____ ____ _____.
Topic:
Translation or not?
choice
spirit
expressing
each other better

12. In a world lit up by words
Quietly, we embrace
In a world lit up by words
Our life is like the night. The words in poetry are like lamps, and we can communicate with other people that we would not have seen in the dark by the light of the lamps.

13. Listen to the whole text, then retell the text:
Poetry has its own features: it plays with __, __and__, and calls up all the __, __, __ and __ of a dream world. So is Chinese poetry. The form is very important: the number of__ and __ in each line, special patterns of __ and __. English poetry has different poets in different times. Such as __ at the end the 16th century, __ and__in the17th century, __ in the 18th century, __ , __and ___in the 19th century. ____ in the 20th century. English poetry and poets are bridges between ____ and _____.

14. True or False Poetry is quite difficult to write and boring to read.
The number of lines and characters in each line is quite important for poems as well as rhythm and rhyme.
William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays.
Romantic poems and nature poems are two styles of English poems.
Translating poems into other languages can not only help people to read more but also understand it without losing any spirit.
(F)
(T)
(F)
(T)
(F)

15. Timeline of Great Poets
William Wordsworth
John Milton
Alexander Pope
(7)
(3)
1600
1700
1900
2000
1800
(4)
(2)
John Donne
(1)
Byron
(5)
(8)
Robert Frost
Shakespeare
(6)
John Keats

16. Homework: writing
Write something about the development of English poetry according to the text.

17. Thank you!
Good-bye!