诗歌演讲(英语).pptVIP

He was a famous spiritual leader of the Oglala Lakota Native American tribe. He took part in two famous battles against American troops during the late eighteen hundreds. At the end of his life, he told about a number of his tribes ceremonies and ideas about life. Among these was the poem called Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. Everything the Power of the World doesis done in a circle. The sky is round,and I have heard that the earth is roundlike a ball, and so are all the stars.The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles,For theirs is the same religion as ours.The sun comes forth and goes down againin a circle. The moon does the same,And both are round. Even the seasonsform a great circle in their changing,and always come back again to where they were.The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood,and so it is in everything where power moves. Robert Frost Robert Frost was perhaps the most popular and beloved of twentieth century American poets. So it is not surprising that six of his poems are included in the book Americans Favorite Poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times. He often wrote about the land and people of the northeastern American states.His poems combine images of nature with ideas about how to live ones life. This one is called The Road Not Taken. It is one of his most famous poems. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling