2. Unit 4 A Garden of Poems Reading English Poetry

3. The words you need to talk about poets and poetry: 五行打油诗 十四行诗 节奏 韵，押韵 浪漫诗人 修辞格 原作 译作 limerick sonnet rhythm rhyme Romantic poets figure of speech the original work the translated work

4. Main idea of each part: Part 1.( Par. 1) Part 2.(Par. 2) Part 3.(Par. 3~5) Part 4.(Par. 6~7) Brief introduction to poetry. Chinese poetry and poets. The development of English poetry. Poems can be bridges between the East and the West.

5. 1.What’s the function of poetry? 2.What does poetry play with? 3. What’s the form of Chinese poetry? Part1-2

6. The earliest English poetry Modern English 16 th William Shakespeare 17th John Donne 18th Pope John Milton Part 3 his sonnets Modern English Surprising images absence of rhyme at the end of each line the finest Poet

7. English Romantic poets 19 th Greatly loved in China John Keats William Wordsworth George Gordon Byron ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ Isles of Greece Sonnets and long poems Nature poems

8. Modern poets 20 th Robert Frost ⑧ American modern poet Stand close to us both in the language and images they use.

9. They translated English poetry into Chinese the introduction of English poetry to China (the end of 19 th ) 1910---1930 Part 4

10. True or False 1.The number of lines and characters in each line is quite important for good poems as well as rhythm and rhyme. 2.William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays. 3.Romantic poems and nature poems are two styles of English poems. 4.Translating poems into other languages can not only help people to read more but also understand it without losing any spirit. (T) (F) (T) (F)

11. English has a short______, but there are still a lot of good English _____ and great ____ around, such as _________ of the 17th century, Pope and John Milton of the ____ century, Worldsword, Byron, and Keats of the ____ century, and Robert Frost of modern times. At the end of the 19th century, ___________ was introduced to _____ by some famous writers such as _______ and _________. Nowadays, more and more people are ________ in reading modern poetry in _______. Reading poetry in English also _______________ finding new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese. history poems poets Shakespeare 18th 19th English poetryChina Lu Xun Guo Moruo interested English opens the door to

12. Discussion Q:Are poems good for our life? What can we get from poems?poems 1. Poems bring passion ( 激情 ) to our life. 2. Poems help us to understand life, beauty and romance… 3. Poems make us know, we are here,we can make our life and the world more colorful!

13. What do the words in bold refer to. Para. 1 That makes poetry difficult to write, but very interesting to read. Para. 3 Despite its short history,there is a lot of good poetry around. ---Poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar. ---English poetry’s

14. Para. 5 Finally, modern poets have their special … in the language and images they use. Para. 7 They can help us to understand each other better,… Para. 4 The style and atmosphere in their poems has often… --- modern poets ---William Wordsworth,Byron,John Keats ---poems and literature