1、Unit2 Poems,If winter comes, can spring be far behind?Shelley- Ode to the west wind(西风颂),Reading,A Few Simple Forms of English Poems,Lets have a look.,Who are they? Can you recite their poems?,Qu Yuan,Du Fu,Li Bai,Chinese Ancient Poets,Wang Wei,Bai Juyi,Su Shi,Chinese Ancient Poets,Chinese Modern Po
2、ets,Guo Moruo 凤凰涅槃,Wen Yiduo 死水,Ai Qing 大堰河,Ancient poets in England,William Shakespeare (15641616)154 sonnets,George Gordon Byron(17881824 ) Don Juan唐璜,Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) Ode to the West Wind,Other famous poets in foreign countries,Robert Frost (18741963) America荒野 （Desert Places）,Ralp
3、h Waldo Emerson (1803-1882） America,Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) India Jitanjali（吉檀枷利） Stray Bird（飞鸟集）,Other Modern Poets,托马斯特兰斯特勒默（Tomas Transtromer，1931？），二十世纪瑞典著名诗人。 特兰斯特罗默1931年生于斯德哥尔摩，1954年出版第一本诗集诗十七首，引起瑞典诗坛轰动，成为五十年代瑞典诗坛上的一件大事。 获2011年诺贝尔文学奖。,What are the characteristics of poems? Can you give
4、 me some examples? Poems have beats. They may rhyme or may not rhyme but they have to have rhythms. This beat is not always obvious, but its usually there.,Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry. Without rhythm, there wouldnt be poems.,Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are, Up abov
5、e the world so high Like a diamond in the sky.,强 弱 强 弱 强 弱 强,构成一个韵节的四种情况: 强+弱, 强+弱弱弱+强, 弱+强,Reading POEMS,Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.,Nursery rhymes,rhythm and rhyme,recite,List poems,phrases,five lines,strong,translations,17 syllables,clear,Now, read paragraph 1 and answer the q
6、uestionsWhy do people write poems? People write poemsto tell a storyto describe somethingto convey certain emotions Can you list other reasons? to make others laughto tell the life or friendship to delight the kidsto describe the seasons or scenesfor entertainment as the lyric of a song,Nursery Rhym
7、es,1. What is the babys father going to buy if the mirror gets broken?2. What is the babys father going to do if the goat runs away?,If the mirror gets broken, the babys father will buy a billy-goat instead.,Hes going to buy the baby another billy-goat.,We should have won If Jack had scored that goa
8、l, If wed had just a few more minutes, If we had trained harder, If Ben had passed the ball to Joe, If wed had thousands of fans screaming,Poem C Our first football match,If I hadnt taken my eye off the ball, If we hadnt stayed up so late the night before, If we hadnt take it easy, If we hadnt run o
9、ut of energy. We should have won If wed been better!,What is the poem about? 2. Why didnt the players win the match? 3. Does the author really believe his or her excuses? How do you know?,Sample answers: 1. The speaker is writing about football. 2. The players didnt win because: Jack didnt score tha
10、t goal; they didnt have enough time; they hadnt train hard. 3. No, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win,What is cinquain?,Brother Beautiful ,athletic Teasing, shouting ,laughingFriend and enemy toomine,a name (subject of the poem),two adjs
11、( describe the subject）,three verbs ending with ing (describe actions),four words (opinions or feelings),restates(重复) the subject in anther single word,SummerSleepy, salty Drying, drooping, dreadingWeek in, week outEndless,Answer the questions 1. What are the poems about? 2. Do the authors like the
12、subjects? Give your reasons.,1. his /her brothersummer 2. One possible answer: Yes. Although the speaker describes a couple of negative aspects of his/ her brother, the reader can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his/ her brother.,Another possible answer: No. The reader gets the feeling
13、 that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over. The words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and endless convey this feeling.,Where she awaits her husband, On and on the river flows Never looking back, Transformed into stone. Day by day upon the mountain top,wind and rain revolve. Should
14、the journeyer return,this stone would utter speech.(by Wang Jian),望夫石王健 望夫处，江悠悠。 化为石，不回头。 山头日日风复雨， 行人归来石应语。,相传远古时代，这里是汪洋大海，有一少妇，因丈夫出海打鱼，久而不返，遂登山望夫，感而成石。,Which of the following words can convey the womans feelingsloneliness B. joy C. love D. trust E. anger F. hate G. sorrow,A. loneliness,C. love,D. t
15、rust,G. sorrow,?,Lets have fun .,A SPRING MORNING I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken. (by Meng Haoran),Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, To bring me my
16、 shadow and make us three.,举杯邀明月，对影成三人。,蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处,When all at once I turn my head, find her there lantern(灯笼) light is dimly(朦胧地) shed.,Wildfire never quite consumes them - They are tall once more in the spring wind.,野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。,Sample translation of Tang poems,COMING HOME,I left home young, I
17、 return old. Speaking as then, but with hair grow thin; and my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: Stranger, where do you come from?,We are translators.,ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY,All alone in a foreign land. Im twice as homesick on this day, when brothers carry dogwood up the mountain, each of them a branch and my branch missing.,People meet and people pass by Some laugh while some cry Some give up while some always try Some say hi while some say bye Others may forget you but never I.,Enjoy yourself,
