英诗格律与英语诵读模版课件.pptVIP

English versification English poetry: a juicy peach or a lemon that is bitter and flat? How can we appreciate its beauty? Beauty of its contents: the message it sends forth Beauty of its form: the way by which the message is sent forth--- versification, etc. An interactive relationship between contents and form. What is poetry? All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. ---William Wordsworth The best words in the best order. ---Samuel T. Coleridge Musical thought. ---Thomas Carlyle Poetry is the inclusion of the infinite into the finite. ---Robert Browning Period of Verse From: Geoffrey Chaucer(1345-1400) beginner of the employment of heroic couplet(the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter) To: Walt Whitman(1819-1892): beginner of free verse Basic Concepts: A: syllable: a unit of speech sounds consisting of a vowel or a vowel with one or more than one consonant. B: rhythm: the movement or sense of movement communicated by the regular arrangement of stressed unstressed syllables(by a foot or some feet: a unit of rhythm, a group of syllables forming a metrical unit) Rhythm 1 Rhythm: types of foot(音步)+ number of foot(音步律) 1. types of foot(音步) Four commonly used feet defined by the differences in the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables A: the iambic(抑扬格): the sea B: the anapest(抑抑扬格): on the sea C: the trochee(扬抑格): pretty D: the dactyl(扬抑抑格): beautiful (Note: A and B belong to the rising rhythm, C and D belong to the falling rhythm.) Rhythm 2 2. numbers of foot (meter)(音步律) monometer，dimeter ，trimeter tetrameter pentameter: most commonly used hexameter, heptameter, octameter Conclusion: Rhythm is composed of type of foot and number of foot in a line. Example: iambic pentameter(抑扬格五音步) The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day The Cur/few tolls /the knell /of par/ting day Variations in rhythm(节奏变格) Reasons: to avoid monotony and damage of contents by form Principle: The dominant rhyth