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Unit 4 English poetry
Chinese Ancient Poets
Qu Yuan
Du Fu
Li Bai
Chinese Ancient Poets
Wang Wei
Bai Juyi
Su Dongpo
Chinese Modern Poets
Dai Wangsu
Xu Zhimo
Su Ting
《雨巷》
《再别康桥》
《致橡树》
William Shakespeare (1564～1616)
Shakespeare’s Works
154 sonnets
2 long poems
Comedies
37 plays
Tragedies
History plays
Roman plays
Shakespeare’s Four Tragedies
Hamlet 《哈姆雷特》
King Lear《李尔王》
Macbeth《麦克白》
Romeo and Juliet
《罗密欧与朱丽叶》
Shakespeare’s Major Comedies
The Merchant of Venice《威尼斯商人》
A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》
Twelfth Night《第十二夜》
As You Like It《皆大欢喜》
John Donne (1572～1631)
The Flea
《跳蚤》
Storm At Sea
《海上风暴》
John Milton (1608～1674)
Paradise Lost
《失乐园》
Paradise Regained
《复乐园》
Alexander Pope (1688～1744)
An Essay on Man
《人论》
On Criticism
《批评论》
William Wordsworth (1770—1850 )
An Evening Walk
《黄昏信步》
The Prelude 《序曲》
John Keats (1795～1821)
Isabella
《伊萨贝拉》
Ode to a Nightingale
《夜莺》
To Autumn
《秋颂》
George Gordon Byron (1788—1824 )
The Vision of Judgement
《审判的幻景》
Don Juan
《唐璜》
Isles of Greece
《希腊群岛》
Robert Frost (1874～1963)
A Boy’s Will
《少年的意志》
North of Boston
《波士顿以北》
Mountain Interval
《山间》
West-Running Brook
《西去的溪流》
Shakespeare
John Donne
John Milton
Pope
Wordsworth
Byron
John Keats
Frost
Choose the best answer :
1. Modern English came into being from about the end of the
________ century .
A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th
2. The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers of the
poems by ___________ .
A. Du Fu
B. Li Bai C. Su Dongpo D. Guo Moruo
3. Byron’s Isles of Greece (1824) is an example of ______ .
A. a sonnet
B. romantic poetry
C. nature poetry
D. modern poetry
4. Which group of poets did not come from the same country ?
A. Li Bai , Wang Wei , and Su Dongpo .
B. William Wordsworth , Robert Frost and Shakespeare .
C. John Keats , John Donne , and John Milton .
D. George Gordon Byron , Shakespeare and John Keats .
5. Whose poems do not have rhyme at the end of each line ?
A. Wang Wei’s
B. Shakespeare’s
C. Su Dongpo’s
D. John Milton’s
6. Which is the correct order of time about the following
English poets ?
A. Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
John Donne
B. John Donne
Alexander Pope
John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
George Gordon Byron
John Milton
D. John Milton
Robert Frost
George Gordon Byron
7. The introduction of English poetry to China began _____ .
A. at the start of the 20th century
B. in the late 1930s
C. at the end of the 19th century
D. between 1910 and the 1930s
8. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the
beginning of the ________ century .
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
9. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese
translation is ______________ .
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
10. How is an English poem different from its Chinese
translation ?
A. It will become more difficult to understand .
B. Some of the information in the original poem is missing.
C. The Chinese translation will offer readers much less
choice .
D. Something of the spirit of the original poem will be lost .
Item
Time
Characteristic
Poets
Chinese
poetry
Has a long history Li Bai
Du Fu
Early
English
poetry
English 17th
poetry century
The end
of 17th
century
Difficult to
understand
Shakes
The use of
peare,
surprising images Donne
The absence of
John
rhyme at the end of Milton
each line
Item
Time
Characteristic Poets
18 th
century
19th
century
English
poetry
Alexand
er Pope
Romantic
poems, nature Wordsworth,
Byron, and
and long
JohnKeats
poems
Modern Stand close to
poets
us both in the
language and
images they use
Robert
Frost
1.He is the tallest of all the students.
He is taller than any other student.
2.The trip called up happy memories
of my youth.
H called up all the information from
the computer.
3. He stands out as a computer
designer.
4.Shakespear is very famous for his
plays.
5.The English Romantic poets are
greatly loved in China .
6. All roads lead to Rome.