English Poetry

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Unit 4
English Poetry
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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.
In the Quiet Night
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Fast reading
Chinese poets and poetry.
Para.1
Why more people are interested in English poetry.
Para.2
Para.3
The introduction of English poetry into China.
Para.4-5
Why we read poetry.
Early English poets.
Para.6
Para.7
Modern English poets.
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Para 1
Why we read poetry?
bring together
different,times ,places
play with
sounds,words,grammar
calls up
colors,feelings experiences,curious images.
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Para 2
Can you list the famous poets that mentioned in
this paragraph?
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Para 3?4?5
Can you list the famous foreign poets named in
the passage?
William Shakespeare
John Donne
Robert Frost
John Milton
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope
George Gordon Byron
John Keats
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Put all the foreign poets named in the reading
passage on the timeline.
? George Gordon Byron
? William Shakespeare
? John Keats
? John Donne
? John Milton
? William Wordsworth
? Alexander Pope
? Robert Frost
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Item Time Characteristic Poets
Chinese poetry
English poetry Early English poetry
English poetry 17th century
English poetry The end of 17th century
Li Bai Du Fu
Has a long history
Difficult to understand
Shakespeare,Donne
The use of surprising images
The absence of rhyme at the end of each line
John Milton

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Item Time Characteristic Poets
English poetry 18 th century
English poetry 19th century
English poetry Modern poets
Alexander Pope
Romantic poems, nature and long poems
Wordsworth, Byron, and JohnKeats
Stand close to us both in the language and images
they use
Robert Frost

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Para 6
The introduction of English poetry to China came
late.
Time Event
The end of the 19th century
1910-the late 1930s
Chinese writers started reading more foreign
poetry.
Famous writers translated English poetry into
Chinese.
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Para 7
Why are more people interested in 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 find 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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True or False

• 1. Poetry plays with sounds, words, and grammar,
  the same as any other form of literature.
• 2. The number of characters in each line in a
  poem is not very important.
• 3. The early English poetry was easy to
  understand.
• 4. The 17th century was an significant time for
  English poetry.

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• 5. Shakespeare is most famous for his poems.
• 6. Alexander Pope wrote the finest poetry in the
  world.
• 7. William Wordsworth lived a longer life than
  John Keats.
• 8. Robert Frost is one of the modern poets.
• 9. It is better to read poems in their original
  languages than translations.
• 10. Poems and literature may cause
  misunderstanding between the East and the West.

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Good-bye!