poetry·ElithabethShakespear.ppt

Elizabethan poetry Sonnets of Shakespeare Poetic Basics Poetic Basics Rhythm (syllable, stress) Foot Meter iambic meter iambic pentameter Rhythm: “the Musical flow of language” There is at least one stressed syllable in a word of any length, one or more unstressed: above suffer around terrible political procession disaster When stressed and unstressed syllables arranged in a definite order, the line will rise and fall in a musical way. My heart is like a singing bird. 2. Foot (音步): the unit of rhythm in English poetry. A foot contains two or three syllables, one of which is stressed. There are four main types of foot in English poetry: iambus（抑扬格）, trochee（扬抑格）, anapaest（抑抑扬格）, dactyl（扬抑抑格） 1) Iambus (抑扬格): one unaccented + one accented syllable (iambic) appear besides attack supply 2) Trochee (扬抑格): one accented + one unaccented syllable (trochaic) holy upper grandeur failing 3) Anapaest (抑抑扬格): two unaccented syllables + one accented (anapaestic) reappear indistinct incomplete on the hill 4) Dactyl (扬抑抑格): one accented + two unaccented syllable (dactylic) messenger merrily property 5) Spondee (扬扬格) (spondaic), paeonic (四音节的韵脚） 3. Examples in poetry When I consider how my light is spent (Iambus) May! Thou month of rosy beauty (Trochee) For the journey is done and the summit is (a)ttained (Anapaest) Touch her not scornfully, Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanely. (Dactyl) 4. Meter (音步): measure or patterned count of a poetic line, determined by the kind of foot used and the number of feet in the line （Chaucer) 1) 1 foot – monometer/ 2 feet – dimeter 3 feet – trimeter / 4 feet – tetrameter 5 feet – pentameter / 6 feet – hexameter 7 feet – heptameter / 8 feet – octameter 2) The name of meters: