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Recitation Passages for Freshpersons of College of English Language and Literature, SISU Poems 1. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson Biography Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth 1830-1886 , America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Dickinson’s simply constructed yet intensely felt, acutely intellectual writings take as their subject issues vital to humanity: the agonies and ecstasies of love, sexuality, the unfathomable nature of death, the horrors of war, God and religious belief, the importance of humor, and musings on the significance of literature, music, and art. Hope is the thing with feathers希望长着羽毛That perches in the soul, 栖在And sings the tune without the words, 唱的And never stops at all. 从来不停息 And sweetest in the gale is heard; 风越大越甜And sore must be the storm寻常的暴 That could abash the little bird想嚇倒 That kept so many warm. 温暖众生的小 I’ve heard it in the chillest land, 我曾在最寒帶, And on the strangest sea; 最的海 Yet, never, in extremity, 却从不因, It asked a crumb of me. 向我 2. Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Biography Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 , English playwright and poet, is recognized in most of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Shakespeare’s plays communicate a profound knowledge of the wellsprings of human behavior, revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of characters. He left behind a multitude of masterpieces, including 37 plays and 156 sonnets. Many of his plays are still performed and frequently adapted to movies. Shall I compare thee1 to a summer’s day? 能否把你比作夏日的璀璨？ Thou art2 more lovely and more temperate: 你却比炎夏更可爱温存； Rough winds do shake3 the darling buds of May, 狂风摧残五月花蕊娇妍， And summer’s lease4 hath all too short a date5. 夏天匆匆离去毫不停顿。 Sometime6 too hot the eye of heaven7 shines, 苍天明眸有时过于灼热， And often is his gold complexion dimmed; 金色脸容往往蒙上阴翳； And every fair from fair8 sometime declines, 一切优美形象不免褪色， By chance9, or natures changing course10 untrimed11: 偶然摧残或自然地老去。 But thy12 eternal s