Unit 4 English poetry

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Unit 4 English poetry
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Chinese Ancient Poets
Qu Yuan
Du Fu
Li Bai
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Chinese Ancient Poets
Su Dongpo
Bai Juyi
Wang Wei
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Chinese Modern Poets
Dai Wangsu
Xu Zhimo
Su Ting
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William Shakespeare (15641616)
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Shakespeares Works
154 sonnets
2 long poems
Comedies
Tragedies
37 plays
History plays
Roman plays
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Shakespeares Four Tragedies
Hamlet ????
King Lear???
Macbeth???
Romeo and Juliet ???????
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Shakespeares Major Comedies
The Merchant of Venice?????
A Mid-Summer Nights Dream?????
Twelfth Night????
As You Like It????
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John Donne (15721631)
The Flea
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Storm At Sea
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John Milton (16081674)
Paradise Lost
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Paradise Regained
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Alexander Pope (16881744)
An Essay on Man
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On Criticism
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William Wordsworth (17701850 )
An Evening Walk
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The Prelude
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John Keats (17951821)
Isabella
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Ode to a Nightingale
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To Autumn
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George Gordon Byron (17881824 )
The Vision of Judgement
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Don Juan
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Isles of Greece
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Robert Frost (18741963)
A Boys Will
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North of Boston
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Mountain Interval
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West-Running Brook
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Shakespeare
John Donne
John Milton
Pope
John Keats
Wordsworth
Byron
Frost
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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.
Byrons 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 .
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5. Whose poems do not have rhyme at the end of
each line ? A. Wang Weis
B. Shakespeares C. Su Dongpos
D. John Miltons 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
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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 .
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Item Time Characteristic Poets
Chinese poetry
English poetry Early English poetry
English poetry 17th century
English poetry The end of 17th century
Has a long history
Li Bai Du Fu
Difficult to understand
Shakespeare,Donne
The use of surprising images
The absence of rhyme at the end of each line
John Milton

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Item Time Characteristic Poets
English poetry 18 th century
English poetry 19th century
English poetry Modern poets
Alexander Pope
Romantic poems, nature and long poems
Wordsworth,Byron, and JohnKeats
Stand close to us both in the language and images
they use
Robert Frost

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1.He is the tallest of all the students. He is
taller than 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.
any other student.
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4.Shakespear is very famous for his plays. 5.The
English Romantic poets are greatly loved in China
. 6. All roads lead to Rome.