Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

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Unit 4 A Garden of Poems
Reading

• English Poetry

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Learning aims
A words and phrases glory,sonnet,absence,translat
e,scan,rhyme active ,feature,,spirit,literature,em
brace, atmosphere,style,image, remind sb.of
sth., call up, stand out, lead to, come into
being,
BLearn how to explain an English poem
and how to use an image in writing.
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English Poetry!
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Scanning
1. What are the differences between poetry and
other forms of literature?
? Poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar.
? Poetry is difficult to write,but interesting
to read.
? 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 Donne
John Keats
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haracteristics
Para 1.
The c of poetry.
bring together
play with
calls up
Colours, feelings, experiences and curious
images of a dream world.
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poets
poetry
Para 2. Chinese and .
A long history.active. Poems by.stand out in
the halls of glory
Formthe number of lines, the number of
characters in each line. Patterns of rhythm and
rhyme.
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Para English poetry and poets (from the
earliest- ).
18th
Play sonnet
(difficult)
( end of 16th
17th
the absence of rhyme at the end of each line
surprising images
John Milton
the finest poetry in England
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Greatly loved in China
romantic
Para4English _______ poets of ______.
the 19th
sonnets ,long.. nature poems Isles of Greece
The style and atmosphere in their poems has often
led to comparison with poets such as Du Fu and
Li Bai
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Para5 Why modern poets have______ ________?
special attraction
Stand closest to us both in the language and
images they use.
American poet
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Para6The _________of English poetry to China.
introduction
Time Event


Chinese writers started reading more foreign
poetry.
The end of the 19th century
A great moment for European literature to come to
China
1910-the late 1930s
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advantages
Para 6. The __________ of reading English
poetry.

1. Give you much more choice

2. Something of the spirit of the original work
is lost in the translation edition .
3. Open the door to finding new ways of
expressing yourself in Chinese.
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Can you explain the short poem?
Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words
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Poems and literature can be bridges between the
East and the West.
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Post-reading
John Milton
Alexander Pope
John Donne
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
George Gordon Byron
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poetry Time Characteristics poets
Chinese has a long history
early poetry
English 17th
The end of the 17th
18th century
19th century
Modern poets
The end of the 19th
Du Fu,Li Bai,Wang Wei
difficult to understand
Shakespeare, Donne,
the use of surprising images
The absence of rhyme at the end of each line
John Milton
Pope ,
Wordsworth, Baron, Keats
Romantic poems Long poems
Stand close to us both in the language and images
they use
The American poet Robert Frost
translated by Lun Xun, Guo Moruo
be introduced to China
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Enjoying an English poem

• When You Are Old
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  ----WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
• When you are old and gray and full of
  sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this
  book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft
  look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows
  deep
• How many loved your moments of glad grace,
  And loved your beauty with love false or true
  But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face
• And bending down beside the glowing bars,
  Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And
  paced upon the mountains overhead, And hid
  his face amid a crowd of stars.

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Sonnets
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art
more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do
shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease
hath all too short a date
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Poem is the universal language of mankind.
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Poem was given to man to express his thought.
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Homework
1. Retell the text.
2. Read and translate several good English poems.
3. Get some information about famous poets on
internet if possible.
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Good-bye!
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what is love
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Love is giving , Love is living , Love is taking
someones load, Love helps them along the
road. Love is caring, Love is sharing, Love will
seek the best for others, Love treats everyone as
brothers.
Is the translation of a poem the same to the
original work ?
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In the Quiet Night
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So bright a gleam on the foot of my
bed__ Could there have been a frost
already ? Lifting myself to look, I
found that it was moonlight. Sinking
back again, I thought suddenly of home.
rhythm
rhyme
figures of speech
Something of the spirit of the original works is
lost.