英美诗歌欣赏

“英美诗歌欣赏”课程教学大纲

课程编号：16

课程名称：英美诗歌欣赏课程类别：选修

学分： 2 总学时：32

一、教学对象

《英美诗歌欣赏》是针对大学英语非英语专业三、四年级学生开设的文化素质课选修课程。

二、教学目的和要求

1）该课程的开设一方面是为了让非英语专业学生对英美诗歌发展的历史轨迹、英美诗歌的形式及其语言特点、英美重要诗人及其作品的风格（包括语言、艺术创作手法、主题）等有一定的了解，对诗歌中所反映的各种异域文化有所了解，另一方面是为了提高非英语专业学生的整体诗歌鉴赏水平和综合文化素养。

2）该课程要求非英语专业学生对中国诗歌有一定的鉴赏水平。

三、教学内容

1．A General Introduction to English Poetry

1) General Differences between Poetry and Other Forms of Literature

2) General knowledge about English Poetry:

A. Rhythm; Meter/Foot; Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme; Stanza

B. Imagery

C. Figures of Speech

D. Types of Poetry

3) General Functions of English Poetry

A. Social Functions: Confucius’ Poetics “xing(兴)”, “guan(观)”, “qun(群)” and

“yuan(怨)”

B. Individualistic Functions

4) English Poetry Appreciation Methods—A Combination of the Following Methods

A. Author-centered

B. Reader-centered

C. The Text-centered

2．Geoffrey Chaucer

1) A Brief Introduction to Chaucer and the Social Background he lived in

2) Appreciation of The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue

3．William Shakespeare

1)A Brief Introduction to the English Renaissance

2)A Brief Introduction to Shakespeare and his Masterpieces

3)Appreciation of Sonnets 18, 29 and 65

4)Appreciation of Monologues from his famous plays: Macbeth and Hamlet 4．William Wordsworth

1)A Brief Introduction to English Romanticism

2)A Brief introduction to William Wordsworth and his poetics

3)Appreciation of Lines Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge and The

Solitary Reaper

5．George Gordon Byron

1) A Brief introduction to George Gordon Byron

2) Appreciation of “Isles of Greece! Isles of Greece!” from Don Juan and Song for the Luddites

6．Percy Bysshe Shelley

1)A Brief Introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley

2)Appreciation of On Liberty, To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind by Percy

Bysshe Shelley

7．John Keats

1)A Brief Introduction to John Keats

2)Appreciation of On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats 8．Robert Browning

1) A Brief Introduction to Robert Browning and his “Dramatic Monologue”

2) Appreciation of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

9．Walt Whitman

1)A Brief Introduction to Walt Whitman

2)Appreciation of O, Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman

10．Ezra Pound and e. e. cummings

1) A Brief Introduction to Ezra Pound and his Imagism

2) Appreciation of In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

3) A Brief Introduction to e. e. cummings

4) Appreciation of Buffalo Bill’s Defunct by e. e. cummings

11．Robert Frost

1)A Brief Introduction to Robert Frost

2)Appreciation of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Mending Wall by

R. Frost

12．Langston Hughes

1)A Brief Introduction to Langston Hughes

2)Appreciation of As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes

13．Emily Dickinsonen

1)A Brief Introduction to Emily Dickinson

2)Appreciation of Because I Could Not Stop for Death, I Heard a Fly

Buzz—When I Died, and A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson 14．T. S. Eliot

1)A Brief Introduction to T. S. Eliot and Modernism

2)Appreciation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

四、教学时数分配

开课一学期，每周两学时。总学时数为32学时。每学期均可开设。

五、教学方法

1．本课程使用英语授课，充分利用多媒体以增强教学效果。讲授与启发、讨论等方式有机结合。