高中英语课本听力版本二 高二课文2s_Un04

Unit 4 A Garden of poems

SPEAKING

EXAMPLE:

A:I'm interested to read some Romantic¹ poetry about love and friendship.

B:Why are you interested in that kind of poetry?

A:Because I think Romantic poetry is about real passion².

B:I see. What kind of poetry would you not like to read?

A:I don't want to read English poetry about death and World War I,because I think it is too sad.

READING

ENGLISH POETRY

Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together. More than any other forn of literature, poetry plays wuth sounds,words and grammar. That makes poetry diffidult to write, but very interesting to read. Poetry also calls up all the colours, feelings, experiences and curious images of a dream world.

China has a long history during which many of the world's greatest poets were active. Poems by Du Fu, Li Bai and Wang Wei among others stand out in the halls of glory³. When you have read some Chinese poems, you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry shares. The form is very important: the number of lines and the number of characters in each line. Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm⁴ and rhyme⁵.

Despite its short history, there is a lot of good English poetry around. The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is a now difficult to understand. Modern English started around the time of william Shakespeare⁶, towards the end of the sixteenth century. The seventeenth century was a great time for English poetry. Shakespeare is most famous for his plays. His sonnets⁷, however, belong to the best English poetry. In the next generation of great Enhlish poets we meet John Donne. Chinese readers admire his works⁸ because of his use of surprising images that reminds them of the works of poets such as Su Dongpo. Before the end of the century, there was another famous writer, John Milton. Once published, his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line. In the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope⁹ who wrote the finest poetry in England.

The next period that produced a great number of fine poets was the nineteenth century. Greatly lived in China are the English Romantic poets. Although they were all born in the eighteenth century, they wrote their major works in the English Lake District, lived to the age of 80 and died in 1850. The nature poems by William Wordworth, George Gordon Byron's Isles¹⁰ of Greece and the sonnets and ling poens by John Keats have long been favourites. The style and atmosphere in their poems has ofen led to comparisons¹¹ with poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.

Finally modern poets have their special attraction¹² because they stand clisest to us both in the language and images they use. Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost¹³.

The intriduction of English poetry to China came late. Towards the end of the nineteenth century Chinese writes atarted reading more foreign poetry. The great moment for European literature to come to China is between 1910 and the late 1930s when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo translated both poetry and novels into Chinese.

More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English. Thanslations can ba good, but being able to read in English gives you much more choice. Besedes, no matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost. Reading poetry in English also opens the door to finging new ways of wxpressing yourself in Chinese. Finally, poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the West. They can help us to understand each other better, or as Mu Dan wrote:

Quietly, we embrace¹⁴

In a world lit up by words.

INTEGRATING¹⁵ SKILLS

Reading, listening and writing

SONGS AND POEMS

Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs.

I sing when I feel good. When I sing my favourite songs, I feel even better. Sometimes when I am listening to music and to the song words, I feel that is was written for me. A good song always makes me feel something. Ther are songs that I sing in my head between classes and songs that I want to sing when the school bell rings by the end of the day. They help me get through the day.

They are like bright and warm colours in the middle of greys and shades. I like songs about luve and friendship. The extraordinary thing is, my feelings are more special when I sing my favourite songs in English.

I also like reading. Iused to avoid poetry until an e-pal told me I shoule recite¹⁶ poems and not lood up the meaning of the words. Poetry uses many difficult words and idioms, but the best thing is to just forget about them. In the beginnong I felt quite strange. Now I always lock the door. Reading aloud the sounds of the words, it is really a special experience.

I started with small poems, but now I think I most like long poems. I have different feelongs with different poems. When I have had a bad day at school, I read Keats and forget everything. When I am sad I reak Wordsworth by the light of a candle. When the poem is finished, I close the book and my sadness is gone.

1 LIsren to the tape and read the following poems in class. Discuss with your classmates what they mean to you.

DUST OF SNOW

The way a crow Has given my heart

Shook down on me A change of mood

The dust of snow And saved some part

From a hemlock¹⁷ tree Of a day I had rued¹⁸.

RIGHT HERE WAITING

Oceans apart, day after day, How can I say forever?

And I slowly go insance. Wherever you go, whatever you do

I hear your voice on the line, I will be right here waiting for you.

But it doesn't stop the pain. Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks

If I see you next to never, I will be right here waiting for you.

By Richard Marx

1 romantic   

adj.浪漫的，风流的，传奇性的，夸大的，想象的，浪漫派的

参考例句：

• She thinks it will be romantic to be an actress.她认为当个女演员会很浪漫。
• Her husband is very romantic.她丈夫非常浪漫。

2 passion   

n.热爱，强烈的感情，热情，耶稣的受难

参考例句：

• He had a passion for music.他酷爱音乐。
• In his passion,he tore the letter into pieces.在盛怒之下，他把那封信撕得粉碎。

3 glory   

n.光荣，荣誉；壮丽，辉煌；v.自豪，得意，狂喜

参考例句：

• I was fascinated by the glory of the sunset.落日的壮观把我吸引住了。
• Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom.智者不可夸耀自己智慧。

4 rhythm   

n.韵律；节奏

参考例句：

• He has an ear for the rhythm of Irish speech.他对爱尔兰语的节奏很敏感。
• His poem has a pleasing rhythm.他的诗有和谐的韵律。

5 rhyme   

n.韵，押韵，韵文；vi.押韵，作诗；vt.使押韵，用韵诗表达

参考例句：

• I cannot find a rhyme to " hiccups ".我不能找到和 “hiccups”同韵的词。
• The last two lines of this poem don't rhyme properly.这首诗后两句不怎么压韵。

6 Shakespeare   

n.莎士比亚(16世纪英国剧作家、诗人)

参考例句：

• Shakespeare is a giant among writers.莎士比亚是作家中的巨擘.
• He read Shakespeare to help his English.他阅读莎士比亚的作品以提高自己的英语水平。

7 sonnets   

n.十四行诗( sonnet的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Keats' reputation as a great poet rests largely upon the odes and the later sonnets. 作为一个伟大的诗人，济慈的声誉大部分建立在他写的长诗和后期的十四行诗上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He referred to the manuscript circulation of the sonnets. 他谈到了十四行诗手稿的流行情况。 来自辞典例句

8 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

9 pope   

n.（罗马天主教的）教皇

参考例句：

• The Pope is the spiritual leader of many Christians.教皇是众多基督徒的宗教领袖。
• The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。

10 isles   

岛( isle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the geology of the British Isles 不列颠群岛的地质
• The boat left for the isles. 小船驶向那些小岛。

11 comparisons   

比较( comparison的名词复数 )； [修辞学]比喻； [语法学]（形容词或副词的）比较等级； 类似

参考例句：

• I. Comparisons to a Living Creature (i. e., the Sphinx riddle) 1．比作某种生物（如斯芬克司谜） 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
• Make comparisons about the products. 对产品做对比。 来自超越目标英语 第4册

12 attraction   

n.吸引人的事物；吸引；吸引力

参考例句：

• The main attraction of the place is the nightlife.这个地方最具吸引力的是夜生活。
• Amy is always the centre of attraction at parties.艾米总是聚会上的中心人物。

13 frost   

n.霜，冰冻，冷漠；vt.覆着霜，冻结，结霜；vi.受冻，起霜

参考例句：

• A lot of crops were damaged by the frost.这次霜冻，受害的庄稼不少。
• Try to harvest the fruit before the first frost.在第一次霜冻以前要设法把水果收摘完。

14 embrace   

vt.拥抱；包括；包围，环绕；n.拥抱，怀抱

参考例句：

• He held her to him in a warm embrace.他热列地拥抱她。
• The hills embrace the village.山丘环绕着村庄。

15 integrating   

使一体化( integrate的现在分词 )； 使整合； 使完整； 使结合成为整体

参考例句：

• We should carry out the policy of integrating unified planning with the principle of adaptation to local conditions. 我们应该执行计划同因事制宜的原则相结合的政策。
• Talks will now begin about integrating the activities of both companies. 关于合并两家公司业务的谈判现在将会开始。

16 recite   

vt/vi.背诵，朗读，叙述

参考例句：

• He is going to recite a poem.他将要朗诵一首诗。
• He can recite that poem from memory.他能凭记忆背诵那首诗。

17 hemlock   

n.毒胡萝卜，铁杉

参考例句：

• He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock.判处他喝一杯毒汁。
• Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock,with three pines at hand.这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起，旁边还有三株松树。

18 rued   

v.对…感到后悔( rue的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He rued the day they had bought such a large house. 他懊悔他们买了这样大的一所房子。
• She rued the trip with him. 她后悔不该和他去旅行。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》