Yangjian High School Hua Jinyan

English Poetry

水调歌头 词 苏轼 把酒问青天。 不知天上宫阙， 今夕是何年。 我欲乘风归去， 又唯恐琼楼玉宇， 高处不胜寒。 起舞弄清影， 何似在人间。 水调歌头 词 苏轼 明月几时有， 把酒问青天。 不知天上宫阙， 今夕是何年。 我欲乘风归去， 又唯恐琼楼玉宇， 高处不胜寒。 起舞弄清影， 何似在人间。 转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠。 不应有恨，何事长向别时圆。 人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴缺， 此事古难全。 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。

Can you name some famous Chinese poets and their poems?

Wang Wei(701-761) Li Bai(701-762) Du Fu(712-770) 相思 静夜思 鹿柴 早发白帝城 春夜喜雨 登岳阳楼

Su Dongpo(1037-1101) Tao Yuanming(365-427) Li Qingzhao (1084-1151) 蝶恋花（春景） 念奴娇（赤壁怀古） Tao Yuanming(365-427) 归园田居 饮酒 Li Qingzhao (1084-1151) 如梦令 声声慢

Skimming True or false statements Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhyme. T Chinese poetry has a long history, but English poetry has a short history. 2. English poetry as well as Chinese poetry has a long history. F 3. The earliest English poetry is easy to understand now. F 4. Modern English came into being around the middle of the 17th century. F 5. John Donne’s poetry often reminds Chinese readers of the poems by Su Dongpo. T 6. Byron’s Isles of Greece is an example of modern poetry. F 7. Lu Xun and Guo Moruo played an important role in introducing English poetry to China. T 8. The advantages of reading English poetry in Chinese translation is that you have more choice. F the end of the 16th century difficult romantic poetry you understand it better

Divide the text into four parts Match main idea with each part (1) History of English poetry (2) Poems and literature can be bridges (3&4&5) Chinese poetry and poets (6&7) Brief introduction to poetry

Listening Part1 Say one sentence about poetry.

Listening What are the important features that all Part2 What are the important features that all good Chinese poetry shares? The form is very important: the numbers of lines and the number of characters in each line. Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

Retell The history of English poetry(part3) Time Poets characteristics William Shakespeare sonnets John Donne John Milton his using of surprising images the absence of rhyme Alexander Pope John Keats William Wordsworth Gordon Byron sonnets and long poems nature poems Isles of Greece modern poems stand closest to us Robert Frost

Reading 1.When did Chinese writers begin to read more foreign poetry? Part4 1.When did Chinese writers begin to read more foreign poetry? 2.Who translated both poetry and novels into Chinese at the beginning of the 20th century? Towards the end of the 19th century.

Guo Moruo(1892-1978) 1910-1930 Lu Xun(1881-1936)

静夜思 床前明月光，疑是地上霜． 举头望明月，低头思故乡． In the Still of the Night （徐忠杰译） I descry bright moonlight in front of my bed. I suspect it to be hoary frost on the floor. I watch the bright moon, as I tilt back my head. I yearn, while stooping, for my homeland more. 床前明月光，疑是地上霜． 举头望明月，低头思故乡． In the Quiet Night (Tr. Witter Bynner) So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed Could there have been a frost already? Lifting my head to look, I found that it was moonlight. Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

Discussion Do you think the translated works keep the spirit of the original one? When a poem is translated into another language, its rhythm and rhyme, the figures of speech, etc. are different from the original work. It's changed a bit. That's to say, something of the spirit of the original works is lost.

Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words.

Discussion 1.“We embrace in a world lit up by words.” is an image. It means that our life is like( ). The words used in poetry are like( ). In this light, we can meet the people we ( ) and understand each other better. A the night; lamps that light up; have seen in the dark B the night; lamps that light up; haven’t seen in the dark C the daytime; lamps that light up; have seen in the dark Please use your own words to explain the two images. 2. What other images could you use to express the same idea in the last paragraph? Suggested answer: Reading poems can help us find new ways to express ourselves and understand the literature of foreign countries better. Poetry opens doors. Poems and literature can be bridges.

What do the words in bold refer to? That (para.1) its (para.3) their (para.4) they (para.5) They (para.7) poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar the history of English poetry Wordsworth’s, Byron’s and Keats’ modern poets poems and literature

Fill in the blanks As we know, poetry is ________to write, but__________and funny to read. The poetry can bring us to share the_______with the people living long time ago and enjoy the scenes in foreign countries. It is said that poems and literature serve as_______between the East and the West. Poetry is a form of_________. It often_______ special patterns of rhythm and rhyme. In China poetry has a______history, with a lot of great poets while the history of English poetry is quite ________. Yet, there are a lot of household names as well, such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley. The ___________of English poetry to China came in the late _____century, Lu Xun and Guo Morou_______an important role in bringing English poetry and literature to China, from which we have benefited a lot since then. different interesting feelings bridges literature follows long short introduction 19th played

Homework Describe what the poem is about. Dreams Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow

Homework Isles of Greece 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.

Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 我愿把你比做宜人的夏日， 但比起夏日你更温暖更可爱。 夏日的狂风时而会摧败那娇嫩的蓓蕾， 而那美丽的季节总太过吝啬她珍贵的时光。 夏日的焦阳时而炙热耀眼， 而他金色的面容又时常暗淡无光。 就像一切美好的事物都会褪去他美丽的资质， 随着生命的法则或自然的变迁而慢慢流逝； 但你我的盛夏却永不枯竭， 时间难以带走你灵魂里的美丽， 死神无法夺去你生命中的光明， 因为在我的诗中在你就是永恒的时间和神明。 只要人类尚未消亡 双目不瞑呼吸尚存 我的诗就会千古流传并带给你无尽的永生。 十四行诗（十八） William Shakespeare(1564-1616) sonnets

What did the poet want to describe in this poem? A His lover’s beauty. B A summer’s day.

his use of surprising images What’s the characteristic of his poetry? John Milton(1608-1674) Why did his work become famous? the absence of rhyme John Donne(1572-1631)

Alexander Pope(1688-1744)

Which poems of them are popular? John Keats(1795-1821) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) sonnets and long poems Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Which poems of them are popular? nature poems Isles of Greece

Robert Frost(1874-1963) What kind of poems did he write? modern poems modern poems stand closest to us What is the characteristic of modern poems? Robert Frost(1874-1963)