高中英语人教版高二下04

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 4 A garden of poems
[00:05.09]Speaking
[00:07.73]Example:
[00:10.37]I'm interested to read some Romantic poetry about love and friend sip.
[00:16.40]Why are you interested in that kind of poetry?
[00:20.53]Because I think Romantic poetry is about real passion.
[00:26.10]I see.What kind of poetry would you not like to read?
[00:31.95]I don't want to read English poetry about death and World War One,
[00:37.83]becuase I think it is too sad.
[00:41.98]Reading  ENGLISH POETRY
[00:50.23]Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together.
[00:56.87]More than any other form of literature,poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar.
[01:04.52]That makes poetry difficult to write,but very interesting to read.
[01:11.08]Poetry also calls up all the colours,feelings,
[01:16.36]experiences and curious images of a dream world.
[01:21.50]China has a long history
[01:25.16]during which many of the world's greatest poets were active.
[01:30.33]Poems by Du Fu,Li Bai and Wang Wei among others stand out in the halls of glory.
[01:38.59]When you have read some Chinese poems,
[01:42.64]you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry shares.
[01:49.40]The form is very important:
[01:53.16]the number of lines and the number of characters in each line.
[01:58.41]Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
[02:03.87]Despite its short history,there is a lot of good English poetry around.
[02:10.12]The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English
[02:15.68]that is now difficult to understand.
[02:19.83]Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare,
[02:25.08]towards the end of the sixteenth century.
[02:29.84]The seventeenth century was a great time for English poetry.
[02:35.19]Shakespeare is most famous for his plays.
[02:39.87]His sonnets, however,belong to the best English poetry.
[02:45.51]In the next generation of great English poets we meet John Donne.
[02:51.57]Chinese readers admire his works because of his use of surprising images
[02:58.34]that reminds them of the works of poets such as Su Dongpo.
[03:04.01]Before the end of the century,there was another famous writer,John Milton.
[03:10.25]Once published,
[03:13.12]his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line.
[03:19.05]In the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope
[03:24.30]who wrote the finest poetry in England.
[03:28.56]The next period that produced a great number of fine poets
[03:33.73]was the nineteenth century.
[03:36.89]Greatly loved in China are the English Romantic poets.
[03:42.64]Although they were all born in the eighteenth century,
[03:47.11]they wrote their major works in the early years of the nineteenth century.
[03:52.96]John Keats died at a very young age in 1821;
[03:58.52]while William Wordsworth,who spent much of his time in the English Lake District,
[04:05.37]lived to the age of 80 and died in 1850.
[04:10.23]The nature poems by William Wordsworth,
[04:14.67]George Gordon Byron's Isles of Greece
[04:19.13]and the sonnets and long poems by John Keats have long been favourites.
[04:25.80]The style and atmosphere in their poems
[04:30.24]has often led to comparisons with poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.
[04:36.61]Finally, modern poets have their special attraction
[04:42.07]because they stand closest to us both in the language and images they use.
[04:49.33]Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost.
[04:54.66]The introduction of English poetry to China came late.
[04:59.62]Towards the end of the nineteenth century
[05:03.75]Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry.
[05:08.79]The great moment for European literature to come to China
[05:13.94]is between 1910 and the late 1930s
[05:19.90]when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo
[05:25.96]translated both poetry and novels into Chinese.
[05:31.62]More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English.
[05:37.27]Translations can be good,
[05:40.74]but being able to read in English gives you much more choice.