新高二英语 Unit4 reading.ppt

Can you tell who are the people below? Timeline of Great Poets True or False Poetry is quite difficult to write and boring to read. The number of lines and characters in each line is quite important for good poems as well as rhythm and rhyme. William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays. According to the time, the correct order of the poets should be: Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, John Milton, and John Donne. Romantic poems and nature poems are two styles of English poems. We have read English poems since Tang Dynasty. Translating poems into other languages can not only help people to read more but also understand it without losing any spirit. Welcome to the  Garden of poems ! * Li Bai (701-762) Du Fu (712-770 ) Wang Wei (701-761) Do you know who are they? Can you recite any of their poems? When You are Old当你老了 by William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep当你老了，白发苍苍，睡思昏沉， And nodding by the fire, take down this book,在炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌， And slowly read, and dream of the soft look慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和 Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; 回想它们过去的浓重的阴影； How many loved your moments of glad grace,多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时候And loved your beauty with love false or true;出于假意或真心地爱慕你的美貌， 　　 But one man loved the pilgrim(朝圣者)soul in you,只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂， And loved the sorrows of your changing face; 爱你老去的容颜的痛苦的皱纹。 And bending down beside the glowing bars, 躬身在红光闪耀的炉火旁，Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled(逃走）凄然地低语，爱为何消逝， And paced upon the mountains overhead, 在头顶的山上，它缓缓踱着步子，And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. 将脸隐没在群星之中。 John Donne John Milton Byron John Keats Wordsworth English Poets William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) John Keats (1795 - 1821) Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) John Donne (1572-1631) Why we read poetry 1st. para. 2nd. para. 3rd. para. 4th. para. 5th. para. 6th. para. 7th. para. Chinese poetry and poets the earliest English poetry English poetry in the 19th century modern poets The introduction of English poetry