选修六 unit 2 英文诗歌.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 8 Poetry is a criticism of life, and a heightening of life. It is an approach to the truth of feeling, and it can save your life. No poem should ever be discussed or analyzed, until it has been read aloud. Now let’s appreciate some poems, read them aloud and enjoy ourselves! The Road Not Taken BY Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference When you are old By Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep How many loved your moments of glad grace And loved your beauty with love false or true But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face And bending down beside the glowing bars Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars I Think I Can By Author Unknown If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you dont; If you want to win but think you cant; Its almost a cinch you wont. If you think youll lose, youre lost; For out of the world we find Success begins with a fellows will; Its all in a state of mind. Lifes battles dont always go To the stronger and faster man, But sooner or later the man