课程：英美诗歌欣赏
教材：英美诗歌名篇选读教程
A Cour of English and American Poetry
开课院系：外国语学院
开课学期： 2学分：
周学时：2 总学时：36
制程是什么意思课程性质：学士学位专业课
清远飞来寺适用专业： 英语
本课程的教学目的：
什么补锌本课程旨在通过英美诗歌的具体文本阅读，让选课的学生比较系统地了解并掌握英美诗歌的发展，了解英诗在各个历史时期的形式、风格、技巧和与之相关的时代背景、文学思潮等，
掌握诗歌分析和欣赏的基本方法。
教学内容及基本要求：
比较系统和全面地介绍英美诗歌的发展历史，分析各个时期英美诗歌的经典佳作，阐述这些诗作的格式、韵律、风格和诗歌创作理论。重点将放在具体诗歌的分析上。通过比较详尽的分析，让学生掌握英诗的特点，提高他们欣赏英语的能力以及分析水平，熟悉英国诗歌的创作理论。本课程将涉及32位诗人的65首诗歌。除了认真研读这些诗歌以外，学生们应扩大自己的阅读范围，广泛地阅读相关的翻译和赏析材料以及其它优秀的英美诗作，提高自身对英美诗歌的理解和欣赏水平。
考核方式及要求：
随堂讨论与期末考试相结合。
Session One
Part One Edmund Spenr天壤之别什么意思
I. Background Information
The Renaissance in England: Renaissance is the ‘rebirth’ of literature, art and learning that progressively transformed European culture from the mid-14th脚凉是怎么回事 century in Italy to the mid-17th century in England, strongly influenced by the rediscovery of classical Greek and Latin literature, and accelerated by the development of printing. The Renaissance is commonly held to mark the clo of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern Western world. In literary terms, the Renaissance may be en as a new tradition running from Petrarch and Boccaccio in Italy to Jonson and Milton in England, embracing the work of Sidney, Spenr, and Shakespeare; it is marked by a new lf-confidence in vernacular literatures, a flourishing of lyric poetry, and a revival of such classical forms as epic and pastoral literature.
Humanism became the key note of the English Renaissance. The Humanists emphasized the capability of the human mind and the achievements of human culture, in contrast to the medieval emphasis on God and contempt for the things of this world.
English poetry in the Renaissance period has one of its highlights. It achieved original beauty and exuberance, especially in the Age of Elizabeth. Elizabethan poetry is notable for its variety, its freshness, its freshness, its youthfulness, and its romantic ardor. A group of excellent poets appeared (including Edmund Spenr, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson in this book), and a large number of noble poetic works were produced. In the Age of Elizabeth, writing poetry became a fashion.
Edmund Spenr (1552-1599), the greatest nondramatic poet of the English Renaissance, is regarded as “the poet’s poet” becau of his great influence on later poets. Spenr was born and educated in London. Then Spenr studied at Cambridge, where he read the classics and Italian poets and wrote poems. The Shepheards Calendar was Spenr’s first major work, a ries of pastoral poems arranged according to the months of the year. His masterpiece The Faerie Queene, the great romantic epic, was published in 1590, consisting of six books. One of his major work Amoretti小孩上火, the sonnet quence in 1595, together with Shakespeare’s sonnets and Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella were regarded as the most famous sonnet quences of the Elizabethan Age.
Spenr’s contribution to English literature lies not only in what he wrote, but also in how he wrote it. He created new poetic forms. The 9-line stanza form, called Spenrian stanza, rhymed abab bcbc c is one of his inventions. The first eight are iambic pentameter lines, and the last line is an iambic hexameter line. The sonnet form he invented, called 理解的名言名句Spenrian sonnet, which compris three quatrains and a final couplet as others’, contains such an intricate pattern of interlocking rhymes as abab bcbc cdcd ee. He tried his hand on different forms and meters. He has great influence on later poets.
II. Selected poems
Sonnet 34
A. Pre-reading questions for classroom discussion
Identify the three images in the poem. What’s their function?
What does the author compare his love to?
B. Teaching Points except the notes in the book
This poem is written in Spenrian sonnet, that is, three quatrains plus a couplet of iambic pentameter rhyming abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Archaic words: lyke-like, wyde-wide, doth-does, whenas-when, guyde-guide, doe-do, cloudes-clouds, darknes-darkness, storme-storm, lyfe-life, looke-look, cleare-clear, comfortles-confortless, pensivenes-pensiveness.
Theme: This poem shows the author’s deep love for his beloved and the importance of his beloved to him.
Analogy: The poet compared his love journey to the journey of a ship by using three images: ocean, ship and bright star.
B. Questions for study and discussion.
What’s the rhyme scheme of this poem? Compare with the rhyme scheme of other sonneteers.
Sonnet 75
A. Teaching Points except the notes in the book
1. This poem is also written in Spenrian sonnet.
2. Archaic words: agayne-again, tyde-tide, pray-prey, paynes-pains, vayne-vain, sayd-said, doest-does, vaine-vain, mortall-mortal, my lve-mylf, lyke-like, bee-be, whenas-whereas, lykewize-likewi, quod-quoth, dy- die, vertues-virtues, subdew-subdue.
3. Theme: Thanks to his poetry, their love will live forever大头兰花图片, so does the fame of his lover. This poem follows the traditional theme for poetry in the Elizabethan period, that is, poetry can bring eternity to the one he loves. For example Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ( “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can e, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”)and Sonnet 55 (“Not marble, nor the guilded monument, / Of Princes shall outlive this powerfull rime”).
B. Questions for study and discussion
1. Identify the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme in this poem.
