经典英美诗歌与韵律.ppt

西方经典文学名著阅读 诗歌篇 Outline An Introduction 1) What is poetry? 2) Basic elements in the understanding of poetry. Key Poems and key terms to be discussed The Eagle and musicality A Valediction, Forbidden Mourning and imagery In a Station of the Metro and oriental art Song of My Self and Individualism and Nationalism I Could not Stop for Death and the theme of death Introduction: What is poetry？ Painting is silent poetry and poetry is a speaking picture. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and it takes its origin in meditation in tranquility. (William Wordsworth) A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. (Percy Shelley) Prose is words in the best order; poetry is the best words in the best order. (Samuel Coleridge) A poem is to cultivate an image. An image is an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. （Ezra Pound) 诗言志。诗者，志之所之也。在心为志，发言为诗。（诗经） Musicality, imagery Lyric, sensations Content, form Poetic language imagery thought Basic Elements of poetry flexibility in meter poetic form musicality (rhythm and rhyme to create certain music effect) emotion expression (either lyric or narrative) imagery poetic language theme: love, life, death, freedom, wisdom universality and resonance 诗歌应该具有丰沛的情感、灵活飞动的意象、精炼而浓缩的语言和富于节奏的韵律,表达一种志趣。 to delight to enlighten Selected poems Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle John Donne: A Valediction, Forbidden Mourning Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro Musicality in The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 【注释】 clasp：紧紧抓住。 crag：峭壁 ringed with the azure world：被蔚蓝色的世界所环绕。 Question 1 Read the following three lines and pay attention to the red letters. What’s the function of the repetition of consonant sound k use here? He