1、1.What is poetry?A literary form marked with stanzasWritten in lines Rich imagery Great artistic appeal Beautiful harmony Compressed content An Introduction to English Poetry第1页2.Definition of poetrylPoetry is a literary genre that communicates experience in the most condensed form.lPoetry is a mult
2、idimensional language:an intellectual dimension,an emotional d,a sensuous d,and an imaginative d.These dimensions work together to pass experience to the reader.Poetry tries to say the most in the fewest possible words.lPoetry begins in delight,and ends in wisdom.Robert FrostlHe who draws noble deli
3、ghts from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet,though he has never written a line in all his life.George Sand第2页3.How to analyze poetry?lAside from the basic demand that poetry says something,poetry is characterized by the following elements:l1)a musical effect created by rhythm and sound;l2)a pr
4、ecise and fresh imagery;l3)multiple levels of interpretations suggested by the connotations of the words and by allusions.第3页Danti:Divine Comedy神曲Milton:Paradise Lost 失乐园 3)didactic poem(说理诗)humorous poem(幽默诗)burlesque(滑稽诗)parody(模仿诗)2)Narrative Poems(叙事诗)(叙事诗)1)Lyrical Poems(抒情诗)(抒情诗)4.Kinds of Poe
5、tryA.In terms of content:ode(颂诗)elegy(悼念诗)idyll(田园诗)love poem(爱情诗)songs(韵文)ballads(民谣)Epics(史诗)(heroic poems),Dramatic Poems(戏剧诗:usu.in dialogue;in blank verse),Metrical tale(故事诗),ballads(民谣)第4页 Kinds of PoetryB.In terms of metre:1)Metrical Poems(格律诗)(格律诗)Regular Rhyme;Regular Rhythm;Definite Number
6、 of Lines2)Free Verse(自由诗):(自由诗):不受格律、音韵约束不讲求形式上整齐或有规则,不寻求语言上平衡、华美或高雅,以充分地、尽情地表示思想为主要目标。Irregular Rhyme and Rhythm;Irregular Number of Lines3)Blank Verse(无韵诗):(无韵诗):不押韵,但有音步和格4)律限制;传统无韵诗节奏是抑扬格五音步,各节长短不一,因而有“诗段”这个说法。Without Rhyme ;With Rhythm第5页rhythm 节律,韵-syllables and stress;音节与重音音节与重音Eg.Myloveslik
7、eared,redrose,ThatsnewlysprunginJune.-foot:a group of syllables;音步音步(重音与非重音一次交替)(number,positionofthestressedsyllable.)-patterns of the foot:iambic(-)抑扬;trochaic(-)扬抑;dactylic(-)扬抑抑;amphibrachic(-)抑抑扬;anapestic(-)抑扬抑 -meter:the number of feet;音步音步,格律格律 monometre,dimetre,trimetre,tetrametre,pentametr
8、e,.-rhythm:regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables.第6页Rhyme and its schemelRhyme:In poetry or music,a structural or semantic pattern formed by the repetition of syllables with identical or similar sounds.l-alliteration:timeandtide,breadandbutter;l-end rhyme:boy,joybeauty,duty.-parall
9、el R:aabb;-cross R:abab;-circular R:abba.l-inter-rhyme:wearandtear,fairandsquair第7页3.Rhythm(节奏)Twinkle,twinkle,little star,How I wonder what you are!第8页The sun is not abed when IAt night u pon my pil low lie4.Metre(格律)1)Iambus(抑扬格)Iambic Foot(抑扬音步)(Iambic Tetrametre or 4-foot Iambus)(四步抑扬格)(四步抑扬格)第9
10、页(Anapaestic Tetrametre or 4-foot Anapaest)(四步抑抑扬格)(四步抑抑扬格)4.Metre(格律)1)Iambus(抑扬格)Anapaestic Foot(抑抑扬音步)The stream will not flow,and the hill will not rise,And the co lours have all passed away from her eyes!2)Anapaest(抑抑扬格)第10页4.Metre(格律)1)Iambus(抑扬格)2)Anapaest(抑抑扬格)Trochaic Foot(扬抑音步)Shake your c
11、hains to earth like dew,Which in sleep had fallen on you-You are many -they are few.(Trochaic Tetrametre or 4-foot Trochee)(四步扬抑格)(四步扬抑格)3)Trochee(扬抑格)第11页Dactylic Foot(扬抑抑音步)a)Take her up tenderly,Lift her with care;b)This is a galloping measure a hop and a trot and a gallop (Dactylic Hexametre or
12、6-foot Dactyl)(六步扬抑抑格)(六步扬抑抑格)4.Metre(格律)1)Iambus(抑扬格)2)Anapaest(抑抑扬格)3)Trochee(扬抑格)4)Dactyl(扬抑抑格)(Dactylic Bi-metre)(两步扬抑抑格)(两步扬抑抑格)第12页4.Metre(格律)1)Iambus(抑扬格)2)Anapaest(抑抑扬格3)Trochee(扬抑格)4)Dactyl(扬抑抑格)6)Spondee(扬扬格)7)Pyrric(抑抑格)5)Amphibrach(抑扬抑格)For the dear God who loveth us(扬扬格)(抑抑格)(抑扬抑格)第13页5
13、.Foot(音步)Mono-metre(一音步)Bi-metre(二音步)Tri-metre(三音步)Tetrametre(四音步)Pentametre(五音步)Hexametre(六音步)Heptametre(七音步)Octametre(八音步)第14页6.Sound Patterns(音韵)(音韵)C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C Alliteration(头韵)Assonance(准韵)Para-rhyme(侧韵)Reverse-rhyme(逆韵)Full rhyme(完全韵)take timetake
14、 latetake liketake tooktake taletake lakeC V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C Consonance(谐韵)C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C C V C 第15页7.Alliteration:phantom fathom ;psychology simplea)To give emphasis:might and main;fit as a fiddleb)To connect ideas:Please pick up the pretty pink pills for
15、pale people.c)To connect actions:The fighter fled into the field,and,foremost fighting,fell.第16页8.Rhyme:Home foam ;chair therea)Internal rhyme(行内韵行内韵:一行内有符合押韵规一行内有符合押韵规则两个或多个词;增加诗音乐性,也可使得几个词则两个或多个词;增加诗音乐性,也可使得几个词在意思上联络起来。在意思上联络起来。)I am the daughter of the Earth and Water.(Shelley)We plough and sow-w
16、ere so very,very low.(Ernest Jones)Ah,distinctly I remember it as in the bleak December.(Poe )第17页 If all be true that I do think.There are five reasons we should drink:c)Feminine Rhyme(阴韵:重读音节后还有轻读音节 词押韵。)(1)What is fame?An empty bubble.Gold?A transient,shining trouble.(2)Rise like lions after slum
17、ber,In unvvanquishable number.(3)Oh!ye immortal Gods!what is theogony?(i:ni 神谱,神统系,记述神史诗)Oh!thou,too,mortal man!what is philanthropy?b)Masculine Rhyme(阳韵:单音节词和重读在后双音节或更多音节词押韵。)第18页d)Monosyllabic Rhyme(单音节韵):Hour tour;now know;dear bear;save have e)Bisyllabic Rhyme(双音节韵):f)Trisyllabic Rhyme(三音节韵):g)E
18、ye rhyme(眼韵):I/fly;fool /rule;write/fight;again/remain/sustainborrow/sorrow;daughter/water;conversation/compensationRoman/no man;know it/show it beautiful/dutiful;think of it /drink of it第19页9.Rhyme Scheme:1)aabb(连续韵):Work while you work,and play while you play,aFor that is the way to be happy and g
19、ay.a All that you do,do with your might,bThings done by halves are never done right.b第20页2)abab(交叉韵):How do you like to go up in a swing.a Up in the air so blue?bOh,I do think it the pleasantest thing a Ever a child can do!b第21页3)abba(首尾韵):I hold it true,whateer befall;aI feel it when I sorrow most;
20、bTis better to have loved and lost bThan never to have loved at all.a第22页4)abcb(二四韵):Spring is green,aSummer is bright,bAutumn is gold,cWinter is white.b A stanza is a group of lines (of any number of lines,most frequently of four lines)bound together by an end rhyme.ffppt10.Stanza:第23页11.Sonnet:1)I
21、talian Sonnet(意大利体十四行诗)2)Spenserian Sonnet(斯宾塞体十四诗)3)Shakespearian Sonnet(莎士比亚体十四行诗)第24页1)Italian Sonnet(Francesco Petrarch)The poetry of earth is never dead:aWhen all the birds are faint with the hot sun,bAnd hide in cooling trees,a voice will run bFrom hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;aThat
22、is the Grasshoppers-he takes the lead aIn summer luxury,-he has never done bWith his delights;for when tired out with fun bHe rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.aThe poetry of earth is ceasing never:cOn a lone winter evening,when the frost dHas wrought a silence,from the stove there shrills e
23、The Crickets song,in warmth increasing ever,cAnd seems to one in drowsiness half lost,dThe Grasshoppers among some grassy hills.ean octave +a sestet第25页2)Spenserian Sonnet(Edmund Spenser)3 quatrains +a coupletFor loe my love doth in her selfe containe bAll this worlds riches that may farre be found.
24、cIf saphyres,loe her eyes be saphyres plaine:bIf rubies,loe her lips be rubies sound;cIf pearls,her teeth be pearls both pure and round;cIf yvorie,her forehead yvory weene;dIf gold,her locks are finest gold on ground;c If silver,her fair hands are silver sheene.dBut that which fairest is,but few beh
25、old:eHer mind,adorned with vertues manifold.eYe trade full merchants,that with weary toyle aDo seeke nost pretious things to make your gain,bAnd both the Indians of their treasures spoile,aFor loe my love doth in her selfe containe b第26页3)Shakespearian Sonnet ShakespearSometime too hot the eye of he
26、aven shines,cAnd often is his gold complexion dimmd;dAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,cBy chance,or natures changing course,untrimmd.d3 quatrains +a coupletBut thy eternal summer shall not fade,eNor lose possession of that fair thou owst,fNor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,e W
27、hen in eternal lines to time thou growst.fSo long as man can breathe or eyes can see,gSo long lives this,and this gives life to thee.gShall I compare thee to a summers day?aThou art more lovely and more temperate.bRough winds do shake the darling buds of may,aAnd summers lease hath all too short a d
28、ate.b第27页Iambic Pentametre (5-foot Iambus)(五五 步步 抑抑 扬扬 格)格)Shall I compare thee to a sum mers day aThou art more love ly and more tem perate.bRough winds do shake the dar ling buds of may,aAnd sum mers lease hath all too short a date.bAnalysis:第28页Poems Unfold Pictures to ReaderslWho has seen wind?l Neither I nor you:lBut when the leaves hang tremblingl The wind is passing thro.l Who has seen wind?l Neither I nor you:第29页