英语诗歌的类型_Types_of_Poetry.ppt

Part II Types of poetry I. Narrative poetry 叙事诗 -- telling a story -- giving a verbal representation of a sequence of connected events and propels characters through a plot -- narrator 1. Epic 史诗 -- recounting in a continuous narrative the life and action of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons -- Homer: Iliad and Odyssey Virgil: Aeneid Dante: Divine Comedy Anglo-Saxon legend: Beowulf Milton: Paradise Lost 2. Ballad 歌谣 -- a narrative poem of folk song which tells a story in simple colloquial language, usually in four-line stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymed -- the border area between England and Scotland -- the Middle ages -- common people, oral tradition -- traditional ballad: Robin Hood Ballads -- literary ballad: Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3. Romance 传奇 -- primarily medieval fiction in verse or prose dealing with adventures of chivalry and love -- French origin -- feudal system -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Le Morte d’Arthur II. Lyric poetry 抒情诗 -- taking its name from songs sung by individuals or a chorus accompanied by the lyre -- possibly the oldest: the Song of Solomon and the Psalms -- Francesco Petrarch – Italian sonnet -- love as the most important subject matter -- different from narrative poems: 1. Sonnet 十四行诗 -- a fourteen-line poem, written in iambic pentameter ( lines with ten syllables, with accents falling on every second syllable) -- Petrarch in Italy -- England: Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard -- Spenserian sonnet: -- Shakespearean sonnet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg 2. Ode 颂诗 -- a form of lyric poem in which the poet highly celebrates a person, a thing or an event -- length, stanza forms, style and purpose -- Shelley: Ode to the West Wind Keats: Ode to Autumn 3. Song 歌 -- a short lyric poem intended to be set to music in either vocal perfor