经典英美诗歌与韵律

He clasps the crag with crooked hands,
a
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
a
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
a
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls,
b
He watches from his mountain walls,
b
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
b
to fold two sides of the eagle: static and dynamic
Further Questions
1) What characters of the eagle does the poem present? 2) Why does the poet prefer “he” to “it” to name the eagle? 3) How do you evaluate the image of the eagle, a mere animal or a
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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
1) The Eagle and musicality 2) A Valediction, Forbidden Mourning and imagery 3) In a Station of the Metro and oriental art 4) Song of My Self and Individualism and Nationalism 5) I Could not Stop for Death and the theme of death
He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
Alliteration
to emphasize the strong hands of the eagle
• To make it new. -------Ezra Pound （1885-1972）
• Prose is words in the best order; poetry is the best words in the best order. (SamPuoeeltCicolalenrgidugaeg)e
• A poeimmagisetroy cultivate an image. An image is an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. （Ezra Pound)
Introduction: What is poetry？
Musicality, imagery
• Painting is silent poetry and poetry is a speaking pictLuyreri.c, sensations • Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and it takes its
• 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。
Selected poems
• Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle • John Donne: A Valediction, Forbidden Mourning • Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
• emotion expression (either lyric or narrative)
• imagery • poetic language
to enlighten
• theme: love, life, death, freedom, wisdom universality and resonance
The sound must be an echo to the sense. -----Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
名言摘录
No man is an island, entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the man … Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
人面桃花相映红
一枝梨花春带雨
豆蔻梢头二月初
古道西风廋马，断肠人在天涯。----马致远：《天净沙﹒秋思》
Further Questions
Question 2： What feelings does the poem capture and convey in the poem?
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名言摘录
• An image is that which present an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
Did you find the sound k echoing in the second stanza?
Question 2
What is the rhyme scheme in the six lines? What’s the significance for this kind of rhyme design?
• 诗言志。诗者，志之所之也。在心为志，发言为诗th。ou（gh诗t 经）
Basic Elements of poetry
• flexibility in meter poetic form
to delight
musicality (rhythm and rhyme to create certain music effect)
-----by John Donne (1608-1674)
In the Station of Metro and Oriental Art
The apparition of these faces in a crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Q 1: Do you think of the juxtaposition of face and petal?
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.
metaphor? 4) Why is the word ‘crawls’ employed to describe the sea?
名言摘录
‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
-----Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
origin in meditation in tranquility. (William Wordsworth) • A great poem is a fountain forevCeornotevnetr,flfoowrming with the waters of
wisdom and delight. (Percy Shelley)
【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?