Transcript •English Poetry Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

Unit 4
A Garden of
Poems
Reading
•English
Poetry
Chinese poets
Du Fu
Su Dongpo
静夜思
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，低头思故乡。
Li Bai
In the Quiet Night
So bright a 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.
Scan the text and answer the questions.
1. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or
Li Bai?
The works by Wordsworth,
Byron and Keats
2. Whose poetry reminds us of Su Dongpo?
The works by John Donne
Main idea for each paragraph.
Para. 1
The characteristics of poetry.
Para. 2
Chinese ancient poets and poetry.
Early English poets.
Para. 3
History
of 4
Para.
English
Para.
poetry5
Para. 6
Para. 7
English poets of the 19th century.
Why modern poets have special attraction?
The introduction of English poetry to China.
Why more people are interested in
English poetry.
Questions
1. What are the differences between poetry and other
forms of literature?
2.Which Chinese poets are mentioned in the text?
3.Find out the time about the history of English poetry?
What’s the characteristic of the poetry and
which poets were living during different centuries?
4.Who translated English poetry into Chinese between
1910 and the late 1930s?
5.Why are more and more people interested to read
modern poetry in English?
Para 1. Differences between poetry and
other forms of literature.
The characteristics of poetry.
bring… together
Poetry
play with …
calls up…
Colours, feelings,
experiences
and …images…
English Poetry
time
characteristics
poets
Early English Difficult to understand
poetry
17th century The use of surprising
images
The absence of rhyme at
The end of
17th century the end of sentence
Shakespeare
18th century
Alexander Pope
John Donne
John Millton
19th century
Greatly loved in China --Romantic/long poems
Wordsworth
George Gordon Byron
John Keats
Modern
poets
Stand closest to us both in
the language and images
they use
Robert Frost
(American)
莎士比亚是英国文艺复兴时期伟大的
诗人和戏剧家。曾被马克思誉为“最
伟大的天才戏剧家”。他的诗歌造诣
也相当高，其十四行诗在文学史上占
重要的地位。
Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
sonnet
play
多恩，英国“玄学派诗歌”的代
表人物，作品主要有《海上风
暴》、《圣十四行诗》等。
surprising
images
John Donne
(1572-1631)
弥尔顿，英国诗人，政论家。主
要文学作品是两首长诗：《失乐
园》和《复乐园》以及诗剧《力
士参孙》。在英国诗人中，弥尔
顿的地位仅排在莎士比亚之后。
the absence of
rhyme at the
end of each line
John Milton
(1608-1674)
蒲柏， 是英国启蒙运动时期古典主义诗人。
主要作品有《批评论》和《人论》。蒲柏
翻译了古希腊荷马的史诗，并且编辑了
《莎士比亚全集》。
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
the finest poetry
in England
William
Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
华兹华斯，英国浪
漫派湖畔诗人.主
要代表作有《致云
雀》、《致杜鹃》。
George Gordon
Byron (1788-1850)
拜伦，19世纪英国伟
大的革命浪漫主义诗
人。主要代表作
《唐璜》和《恰尔
德·哈罗尔德游记》。
John Keats
(1795-1821)
济慈，19世纪英国
杰出的浪漫主义诗
人。代表作《夜莺
颂》、《秋颂》等。
The style and atmosphere in their poems has often
led to comparisons with poets such as Du Fu and
Li Bai.
Why do modern poets have their special attraction?
Stand closest to us both in the
language and images
弗罗斯特，美国诗人，四次获普利策奖。
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
the introduction of English poetry to China
(the end of 19th )
1910---1930
Lu Xun
Guo Moruo
They translated English poetry into Chinese
Para 7. More and more people are interested
to read modern poetry in English
Why
1. Give you much more choice
2. No matter how well a poem is translated ,
something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
3.Open the door to finding new
ways of expressing yourself
in Chinese.
4.poems and literature can be
bridges between the East and
the West.
Enjoyment
Poems and literature can be bridges.
Image (比喻）
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.
Read the text carefully and 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 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. The wider public in China discovered English poetry
at the beginning of the __ century.
A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th
 5. 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

The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese
readers of the poems by Li Bai.
Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm
and rhyme.
Byron’s Isles of Greece is an example of
nature poetry.
The wider public in China discovered English
poetry at the beginning of the 19th century.
Modern English came into being from about the
end of the 17th century.
The advantage of reading English poetry in
Chinese translation is that you understand it
better.
What do the words in bold refer to?
1.That (Para.1): poetry plays with sounds, words
and grammar
2.its(Para.3):
the history of English poetry
3.their(Para.4): Wordsworth’s, Byron’s and Keats’
4.they(Para.5):
modern poets
5.They(Para.7):
poems and literature
③
1600
②
1700
④
1800
1900
2000
⑦
⑤
⑥
⑧
①
① William Shakespeare
② John Donne
③ John Milton
④ Alexander Pope
⑤ George Gordon Byron
⑥ John Keats
⑦ William Wordsworth
⑧ Robert Frost
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 work is lost.
rhythm
rhyme
figures of speech
修辞格, 比喻
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
穆旦，原名查良峥。
中国现代著名诗人和翻译家。
Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Quietly I wave good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
The golden willows by the riverside
Are young brides in the setting sun;
Their reflections on the shimmering waves
Always linger in the depth of my heart.
To seek a dream? Just to pole a boat upstream
To where the green grass is more verdant;
Or to have the boat fully loaded with starlight
And sing aloud in the splendor of starlight.
But I cannot sing aloud
Quietness is my farewell music;
Even summer insects heap silence for me
Silent is Cambridge tonight!
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Gently I flick my sleeves
Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring
away
How do you like the poem? Why?
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.
然后我看见刚果河从黑土地上蜿蜒流过，
在森林划下一道金色的沟壑。
Discussion
Are poems good for our life?
What can we get from poems?
1. Poems bring passion (激情) 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!
Poem is the universal language of
mankind.
诗歌是全人类的共通语言。
Poem was given to man to express
his thought.
诗歌赋予人类是为了表达思想
history but there are still a lot of
English has a short______,
poetsaround, such as
poemsand great ____
good English _____
Shakespeare
_________ of the 17th century, Pope and Johnson of the
18th century, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly and Keats of
____
19th century, and Auden of modern times. At the end
the ____
China
poetry introduced to _____
of the 19th century, English
___________
Lu Xun and Guo
Moruo
by some famous writers such as _______
_________.
Nowadays, more and more people are interested
________
in
English . Reading poetry in
reading modern poetry in _______
opens the door to
English also _______________
finding new ways of
expressing yourself in Chinese.
1. That makes poetry difficult________(write),but
to write
interesting to
_____
read (read).
2. China has a long history during
______ which many of
the world’s greatest poets were active.
3. When you have read some Chinese poems, you
will have seen and heard some of the features
shares
that all good poetry________(share).
around the time of
4. Modern English started________
William Shakespeare, towards
_______ the end of the
sixteenth century.
most famous for his plays.
5. Shakespeare is _______
6. The style and atmosphere in their poems has
often led to comparisons
_____________ (compare) with
poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.
7. Reading poetry in English also opens the
finding
door to ________(find)
new ways of expressing
yourself in Chinese.
8. Once ___________(publish),his
work became
published
famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of
each line.
9. Greatly _______(love)in
China are the English
loved
Romantic poets.