2019-2020年高二英语Unit4 A garden of poems课本原文 人教版.doc

2019-2020年高二英语Unit4 A garden of poems课本原文 人教版Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times togetherMore than any other form of literature，poetry plays with sounds，words and grammarThat makes poetry difficult to write，but very interesting to readPoetry also calls up all me colours，feelings，experiences and curious images of a dream worldChina has a long history during which many of the worlds greatest poets were activePoems by Du Fu，Li Bai and Wang Wei among others stand out in the halls of gloryWhen you have read some Chinese poems，you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry sharesThe form is very important：thenumber of lines and the number of characters in each linePoetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhymeDespite its short history，there is a lot of good English poetry aroundThe earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understandModern English started around the time of William Shakespeare，towards the end of the sixteenth centuryThe seventeenth century was a great time for English poetryShakespeare is most famous for his playsHis sonnets，however, belong to the best English poetryIn the next generation of great English poets we meet John Donne. Chinese readers admire his works because of his use of surprising images that reminds them of the works of poets such as Su DongpoBefore the end of the century，there was another famous writer, John MiltonOnce published，his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each lineIn the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope who wrote the finest poetry in EnglandThe next period that produced a great number of fine poets was the nineteenth centuryGreatly loved in China are the English Romantic poetsAlthough they were all born in the eighteenth century, they wrote their major works in the early years of the nineteenth centuryJohn Keats died at a very young age in 1821; while William Wordsworth，who spent much of his time in the English Lake District, lived to the age of 80 and r died in 1850The nature poems by William Wordsworth，George Gordon Byrons Isles of Greece and the sonnets and long poems by John Keats have long been favouritesThe style and atmosphere in their poems has often led to parisons with poets such as Du Fu and Li BaiFinally, modern poets have their special attraction because they stand closest to us both in the language and images they useAmong them we find the American poet Robert FrostThe introduction of English poetry to China came lateTowards the end of the nineteenth century Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetryThe great moment for European literature to e to China is between 1910 and the late 1930s when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo translated both poetry and novels Into Chinese.More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in EnglishTranslations can be good，but being able to read in English gives you much more choiceBesides，no matter how well a poem is translated，something of the spirit of the original work is lostReading poetry in English also opens the door to finding new ways of expressing yourself in ChineseFinally, poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the WestThey can help us to understand each other better, or as Mu Dan wrote：Quietly, we embraceIn a world lit up by wordsRead the text carefully and choose the best answer1. Modern English came into being from about the end of the _ century A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th2. The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers of the poems by _ A. Du Fu B. Li Baj C. Su Dongpo D. Guo Moruo3. Byrons Isles of Greece (1824) is an example of_ A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry D. modern poetry4. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning of the _ century. A. 17m B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th5. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese translation is_ A. that you have more choice B. that something of the spirit is lost C. that you understand it better D. that you learn how to express yourself in new waysBSONGS AND POEMS Why read，and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we changethe word poetry to songs I sing when I feel goodWhen I sing my favourite songs，I feel even betterSometimes when I amlistening to music and to the song words，I feel that it was written for meA good song always makesme feel somethingThere are songs that I sing in my head between classes and songs that I want tosing when the school bell rings by the end of the dayThey help me get through the day They are like bright and warm colours in the middle of greys and shadesI like songs about loveand friendshipThe extraordinary thing is，my feelings are more special when I sing my favouritesongs in English I also like readingI used to avoid poetry until an e-pal told me I should recite poems and not lookup the meaning of the wordsPoetry uses many difficult words and idioms，but the best thing is to justforget about themIn the beginning I felt quite strangeNow I always lock the door Reading aloudgives you a strange feeling，but when you have some practice and fall into the rhythm，the rhyme andthe sounds of the words，it is really a special experience I started with small poems，but now I think I most like long poemsI have different feelings withdifferent poemsWhen I have had a bad day at school，I read Keats and forget everythingWhen I amsad I read Wordsworth by the light of a candleWhen the poem is finished，I close the book and mysadness is goneRead the following poems in classDiscuss with your classmates what they mean to youDUST OF SNOWThe way a crow Has given my heartShook down on me A change of moodThe dust of snow And saved some partFrom a hemlock tree Of a day I had ruedBy Robert FrostCIntegrating SkillsTHE BIRTH OF MODERN POETRYWhen asked about poetry, most people will say that a poem is a text that has rhythm and rhymeFamous are the lines by William Blake，which have clear rhythm and rhyme：Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forest of the nightOther people will add that poems must have a certain form，with a fixed number of lines and a fixed rhyme pattern，such as a sonnetWith rhyme，most people mean the rhyme of sound of words at the end of the linesIt is also true that much of the classical poetry that we have looks like thatExcept for some short songs and poems included in his plays，all of Shakespeares greatest poems are sonnetsJohn Milton was one of the first poets who started writing poems without rhyme at the end of the finesHe wrote other poems too，but he is famous for his long poems without rhymeAfter Milton，almost every poet had a hand at this kind of poetry that was free of rhymeWordsworth and Keats wrote some such poems，but that is not what they are famous forThis style of poetry became known as free verse (自由诗)It was not until the twentieth century that modern poetry was really developedModern poets wanted to break with all the traditional forms of poetryOne of the characteristics of modern poetry is that it usually does not have rhyme at the end of a line, and it is also often about mon topicsIn China，free verse was known and used much earlierThe following poem by Bai Juyi is an example of a poem written in free verse ( omitted )