英国文学 4. The Renaissance Period.pptx

 The Renaissance Period (1550-1642) Part III; 1. Shakespeare’s Sonnets; 1.2 Reading and appreciation of “Sonnet 18” ; Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: ; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; ;Notes: -est, -’st: (archaic) denoting the second person singular form of verbs shade: (allusion) in classical mythology, “the shades” is another name for Hades, the world of ghosts eternal lines: immortal verse When you will grow together with time in my immortal poetic lines ;; 1.3 The definition of “Sonnet”;Assignments: 1. Work in groups and write an analysis of “Sonnet 29” (P. 101) and “Sonnet 106” (P.102). (Metrical pattern? Rhyme scheme? Development of thought? Effect of the final couplet? Theme? Figures of speech? ) 2. Study Shakespeare’s achievements by yourself with the help of the PPT. ;2. Shakespeare’ s literary achievements;2.3 Shakespeare’s originality. Shakespeare drew most of his materials from sources that were well-known to his audience, some from Roman drama, some from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and some from other writers’ plays. But “his plays are original because he instilled into the old materials a new spirit that gives new life to his plays” (Luo, 2006: 97) . 2.4 Shakespeare’s characterization. Shakespeare’ s characters are “round”. ;2.5 Shakespeare as a great poet. * His sonnets and long poems (P. 64, Para.1, ) * His plays are poetry. His plays are rich in images, symbols and all kinds of figures of speech. His plays extensively employs blank verse. Blank verse: Blank vers