Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

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Unit 4 A Garden of Poems
Reading

• English Poetry

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Chinese poets
Su Dongpo
Du Fu
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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.
In the Quiet Night
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Fast reading

• Scan the text and answer the questions.
• Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or
  Li Bai?
• 2. Whose poetry reminds us of Su Dongpo?

The works by Wordsworth, Byron and Keats
The works by John Donne
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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 English poetry
Para. 4
English poets of the 19th century.
modern poets
Para. 5
Why have special
attraction?
Para. 6
The introduction of English poetry to China.
Why more people are interested in English poetry.
Para. 7
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Careful reading

• Questions
• 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?
• Whats 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?

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Para 1.
Differences between poetry and other forms of
literature.
The characteristics of poetry.
bring together
play with
calls up
Colours, feelings, experiences and images
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English Poetry
time characteristics poets

17th century
The end of 17th century
18th century
19th century
Modern poets

Early English poetry
Shakespeare
Difficult to understand
The use of surprising images
John Donne
The absence of rhyme at the end of sentence
John Millton
Alexander Pope
Wordsworth George Gordon Byron John
Keats
Greatly loved in China ---Romantic/long poems
Stand closest to us both in the language and
images they use
Robert Frost (American)
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sonnet play
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surprising images
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the absence of rhyme at the end of each line
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the finest poetry in England
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The style and atmosphere in their poems has often
led to comparisons with poets such as Du Fu and
Li Bai.
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Why do modern poets have their special attraction?
Stand closest to us both in the language and
images
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the introduction of English poetry to China (the
end of 19th )
They translated English poetry into Chinese
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Para 7.
More and more people are interested to read
modern poetry in English

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.
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Enjoyment
Poems and literature can be bridges.
Image (??)
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.
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• 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

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• 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

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True or false
The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers
of the poems by Li Bai.
F
Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm
and rhyme.
T
Byrons Isles of Greece is an example of nature
poetry.
F
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True or false
The wider public in China discovered English
poetry at the beginning of the 19th century.
F
Modern English came into being from about the end
of the 17th century.
F
The advantage of reading English poetry in
Chinese translation is that you understand it
better.
T
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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)
Wordsworths, Byrons and Keats
4.they(Para.5)
modern poets
5.They(Para.7)
poems and literature
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? George Gordon Byron
? William Shakespeare
? John Keats
? John Donne
? John Milton
? William Wordsworth
? Alexander Pope
? Robert Frost
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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 ???, ??
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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.
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Can you explain the short poem?
Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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.
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Discussion
Are poems good for our life? What can
we get from poems?
1. Poems bring passion (??) 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!
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Poem is the universal language of mankind.
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Poem was given to man to express his thought.
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history
English has a short______, but there are still
a lot of good English _____ and great ____
around, such as _________ of the 17th century,
Pope and Johnson of the ____ century, Wordsworth,
Byron, Shelly and Keats of the ____ century, and
Auden of modern times. At the end of the 19th
century, ___________ 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.
poets
poems
Shakespeare
18th
19th
China
English poetry
Lu Xun
Guo Moruo
interested
English
opens the door to
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to write

1. That makes poetry difficult________(write),but
   interesting _____ (read).
2. China has a long history ______ which many of the
   worlds greatest poets were active.
3. When you have read some Chinese poems, you will
   have seen and heard some of the features that all
   good poetry________(share).
4. Modern English started________ the time of
   William Shakespeare, _______ the end of the
   sixteenth century.

to read
during
shares
around
towards
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most
5. Shakespeare is _______ famous for his
plays. 6. The style and atmosphere in their poems
has often led to _____________ (compare) with
poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai. 7. Reading poetry
in English also opens the door to ________(find)
new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese.
comparisons
finding
published
8. Once ___________(publish),his work became
famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of
each line. 9. Greatly _______(love)in China are
the English Romantic poets.
loved