Unit 4 A garden of poems

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Unit 4 A garden of poems
ReadingEnglish Poetry
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create
poem
imagination
dream world
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Chinese poetry
Du Fu
Li Bai
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English Poetry
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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?
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Answer
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.
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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
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Careful-Reading
Para. 1
The characters of poetry.
Para. 2
A look on Chinese poetry.
Para. 3
The first period of Modern English poetry.
Para. 4
Modern English poetry in the 19th century.
Para. 5
Why modern poets have special attraction?
Para. 6
The introduction of English poetry to China.
Para. 7
I.The translation of English poetry.
II.The role that poems act as.
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Task A timeline
John Milton
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John Donne
Alexander Pope
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1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
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John Keats
George G. Byron
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Robert Frost
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William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
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Post-reading
I. Choose the best answer.
1. Modern English came into being from about the
end of the _______ century.
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A 16th B 17th C 18th D 19th
2. The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese
readers of the poems by ___________.
C
A.Du Fu B.Li Bai C.Su Dongpo D.Guo Moruo
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3. Byrons Isles of Greece (1824) is an example
of _________.
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A.a sonnet B.romantic poetry C.nature poetry
D.modern poetry
4. The wider public in China discovered English
poetry at the beginning of the _________ century.
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A 17th B 18th C 19th D 20th
5. The advantage of reading English poetry in
Chinese translation is _________.
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A.that you have more choice B.that something of
the spirit is lost C.that you understand it
better
D.that you learn how to express yourself in new
ways
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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 poetrys
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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
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Further-understanding
If a poem is translated into another language, is
it still the same poem? What are some differences?
Something of the spirit of the original works is
lost.
rhythm
rhyme
figures of speech
etc.
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Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words.
by Mu Dan
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.
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Enjoyment
Poems and literature can be bridges.
Image (??)
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.
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When enjoy an English poem
1. Use your heart and emotion.
2. Imagine you are exactly in the dream world of
that poem.
Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black,
Cutting through the forest with a golden track.
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Discussion
Are poems good for our life? What can
we get from poems?
1. Poems bring passion (??) 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 colorful!
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Homework
1. Read the text again to get a better
understanding.
2. Read and translate several good English poems.
3. Get some information about famous poets on
internet if possible.
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Website
www.shakespeare.com www.luminarium.org/seve
nlit/donne www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton
www.island-of-freedom.com/POPE.HTM
www.john- keats.com www.visitcumbria.com/wilword.
htm www.online-literature.com/byron
www.robertfrost.org
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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! 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!
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A SOLDIER
Robert Frost
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That
lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still
lies pointed as it ploughed the dust. If we who
sight along it round the world, See nothing
worthy to have been its mark, It is because like
men we look too near, Forgetting that as fitted
to the sphere, Our missiles always make too short
an arc. They fall, they rip the grass, they
intersect The curve of earth, and striking, break
their own They make us cringe for metal-point on
stone. But this we know, the obstacle that
checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit
on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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The Isles of Greece
George Gordon Byron
The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where
burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the
arts of war and peace, -- Where Delos rose and
Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them
yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The
Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the
lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores
refuse Their place of birth alone is mute To
sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
"Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on
Marathon -- And Marathon looks on the sea And
musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece
might yet be free For, standing on the Persians'
grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
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Don McLean - Vincent
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A poem written in 7 steps Cao
Zhi They were boiling beans on a beanstalk
fire, Came a plaintive voice from the pot, O,
why since we sprang from the self-same
root, Should you kill me with anger hot?
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Byron
John Donne
John Milton
John Keats
Wordsworth