英语诗歌的类型 Types of Poetry.pptVIP

Part II Types of poetry;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 trad