静夜思 床前明月光， 疑是地上霜； 举头望明月， 低头思故乡。

When You are Old 当你老了 by William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep 当你老了，白发苍苍，睡思昏沉， And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 在炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌， And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和 Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; 回想它们过去的浓重的阴影； How many loved your moments of glad grace, 多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时候 And loved your beauty with love false or true; 出于假意或真心地爱慕你的美貌，

Unit 4 A garden of Unit 4 A garden of Poems Poems Reading English Poetry

Compared with other forms of literature, what charateristics does poetry have? Poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar more.

Who wrote the best-known poems in ancient China? Dufu, Libai and Wangwei If you want to write a poem, what should you pay attention to ? Form,rhythm and rhyme.

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Shakespeare John Donne John Milton Alexander Pope Byron John Keats William Wordsworth Robert Frost

WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR E JOHN DONNE

Pope JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON

JOHN KEATS BYRON JOHN KEATS

BYRON ROBERT FROST WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ROBERT FROST

Shakespeare is only famous for his sonnets. The 16 th century is a great time for English poetry. Alexander pope’s poems made us think of SuDongpo. John Donne’s poems became famous for the absence of rhyme. (F) 17

William Wordsworth died at a very early age. John Keats likes to write nature poems. Byron’s poems are often compared with LiBai’s. Robert frost is a modern poet. (F) (T) 28

They translated English poetry into Chinese the introduction of English poetry to China (the end of 19 th )

If a poem is translated into another language,is it still the same poem?What are some differences? No, no matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.

Call up Please call up 110 when robbed and 119 when a fire breaks out. Your letter calls up the days when we were free to do what we like. The general call ed up all his forces for the attack. When was the bill called up? 给 … 打电话使回想起 ; 把 … 召 唤回来 召集提出讨论 The trip calls up the memories of his youth. poem

Stand out His red hair made him stand out in the crowd. We students must stand out against bad behaviors. He stood out from/among /above the rest of the singers. 显眼；突出；引人注目 poem

come into being Modern English came into being from about the end of the century. For the time being he lived in his aunt’s. The organization was brought into being for the purpose of helping the poor. bring…into being 使 … 产生 ; 使 … 形成 发生 ; 产生 ; 诞生 ; 成立 暂时 poem

Correcting mistakes These flowers belonged to hers. China is a developing country belonged to the third world. I don’t want to go abroad;I belonged to here. belong to ‘ 三无 ’: 无被动, 无 进行, 无物主代词, 所有格 poem skip her belonging I belonged here.

154 sonnets 2 long poems 37 plays Shakespeare’s Works 13

A red,red rose WORDSWORTH O, my luve is a red,red rose, That’s newly spung in June. O,my luve is like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune. Luve=love melodie=melody 旋律

静夜思 A tranquil light 床前明月光， Abed,I see a silver light, 疑是地上霜。 I wonder if it’s frost around. 举头望明月， Looking up,I find the room bright, 低头思故乡。 Bowing,in homesickness I’m drowned

Road not taken(Frost) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler,long I stood And looked down one as far as I could. To where it bent in the undergrowth. skip

The Isle of Greece 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 thePersians'grave, I could not deem myself a slave. George Gordon Byron

Welcome to the Garden of poems ! Homework: Recite the rest of the new words. Go over the words,sentence patterns and important sentences in your notes. Read the text on page 31.