English Poetry

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A Garden of Poems
Reading
English Poetry
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Famous poets in China
Li Bai
Du Fu
Wang Wei
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Words and expressions

• play with ??,????
• grammar ??
• call up ??,????,??(??????)
• stand out ??????(?)
• glory ??????????
• sonnet ????
• John Donne ??.??
• John Milton ??.???
• absence ?? ?? ??
• Alexander Pope ????.??
• William Wordsworth ??.????

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Words and expressions
district ??,?? the Lake District (???????)?? isle
(???????)? atmosphere ??,??,??,??? introduction
??,??,?? translate ?? translation ??,?? embrace
?? light up ?? come into being ??,??
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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. Byrons 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
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Fill in the blanks according to the text.
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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
the ___ of poetry.
A. places B. times C. history D. features
sounds
words
grammar
colors
feelings
curious images
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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
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Para. 3
Time Characteristic Poets
sonnet Shakespeare
17th century the use of surprising images
18th century
the end of the 16th century
John Donne, John Milton

• Alexander
• Pope

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

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True or False
(F)

• 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.

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

• Write something about the development of English
  poetry according to the text.

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