English Poetry音步专用课件.pptVIP

Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem. --Henry W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life English Poetry A Brief Introduction Differences between verse and poetry Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest are thirty-one, Excepting February alone. To which we twenty-eight assign, Till leap year makes it twenty-nine. a a b b c c short lines rhyme meters imagery sounds figures of speech verse poetry All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. ---William Wordsworth The best words in the best order. ---Samuel T. Coleridge Poetry …the musical thought. ---Thomas Carlyle Poetry is the inclusion of the infinite into the finite. ---Robert Browning Basic Concepts syllable音节: a unit of speech sounds consisting of a vowel or a vowel with one or more than one consonant. foot 音步: the basic unit of rhythm, a group of stressed and unstressed syllables forming a metrical unit. rhythm节奏: the movement or sense of movement communicated by the regular arrangement of feet. Rhythm: numbers of foot + types of foot  monometer dimeter trimeter tetrameter pentameter hexameter heptameter octameter 1. numbers of foot iambic (抑扬格): the sea anapestic (抑抑扬格): on the sea trochaic (扬抑格): pretty dactylic (扬抑抑格): beautiful 2. types of foot Scansion The monarch hears. My lady sweet arise. When I do count the clock that tells the time. variation: spondaic Tips for scansion 1. Pay attention to the first two or three lines and see how the stressed and unstressed syllables are arranged. 2. Determine the metrical pattern upon which the poem produces a musical effect, and notice if there are any variations. Use the marks to divide each line of the poem into metrical feet. 4. Give the name of the metric