《Unit 2 Poems》课件二（32张PPT）（人教版选修6）.pptVIP

My favorite poet:Robert Frost How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every daysMost quiet need, by sun and candlelight.I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old grieves, and with my childhoods faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death --by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) * Poems Unit 2 Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds --Percy B. Shelley Prose consists of words in their best order. Poetry consists of the best words in their order. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is poetry? Poetry is simply the most beautiful, the most impressive, and the most effective mode of saying things. --Matthew Arnold （1874-1963） Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of Americas leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional--he often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could