Unit 8 Poetry21世纪大学艺术英语教材.ppt

; ; ;Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh （苏美尔史诗《吉尔伽美什》）. The earliest poems evolved from folk songs, such as the Chinese Shi Jing, or from the need to retell oral epics, such as the Sanskrit Vedas （梵文《吠陀经》）, Zoroastrian Gathas （琐罗亚斯德教的《伽他》合集）, and the Homeric epics, The Odyssey and The Iliad （荷马史诗《奥德赛》和《伊里亚特》）. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle’s Poetics （亚里士多德的《诗学》） focused on the uses of ;speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguished poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally labeled as a fundamental creative act using language.;;;;;;; ;Green Fields;Green Fields; ;;;;;;;;; O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! My Captain! Our 1) trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is 2) ; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the 3) keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! Heart! Heart! O the 4) drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.;O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and 5) the bells; Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding; For you they 6) , the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! Dear 7) ! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the 8) , You’ve fallen cold and dead.;; ;;;;; [1] Research from the earliest civilizations five thousand years ago has found that our ancient ancestors made not only simple farming tools, cooking utensils and weapons, but also poetry. Gilgamesh, hero of the Sumerian epic poem be