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1、TheBasicElementsofAppreciatingEnglishPoetry1.Whatispoetry?ØPoetryistheexpressionofImpassionedfeelinginlanguage.Ø“Poetryisthespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeelings:ittakesitsoriginfromemotionrecollectedintranquility.”Ø“Poetry,inageneralsense,maybedefinedtobetheexpressionoftheima
2、gination.”ØPoetryistherhythmicalcreationofbeauty.ØPoetryistheimageofmanandnature.Ø“诗言志,歌咏言。”---《虞书》Ø“诗言志之所以也。在心为志,发言为诗。情动于中而行于言,言之不足,则嗟叹之;嗟叹之不足,故咏歌之;咏歌之不足,不知手之舞之,足之蹈之也。情发于声;声成文,谓之音。”---《诗·大序》Ø“诗是由诗人对外界所引起的感觉,注入了思想与情感,而凝结了形象,终于被表现出来的一种‘完成’的艺术。”---艾青:《诗论》2.TheSoundSystemofEnglis
3、hPoetrya.TheprosodicfeaturesØProsody(韵律)---thestudyoftherhythm,pause,tempo,stressandpitchfeaturesofalanguage.ØChinesepoetryissyllable-timed,Englishpoetryisstress-timed.ØStress:TheprosodyofEnglishpoetryisrealizedbystress.Onestressedsyllablealwayscomestogetherwithoneormoreunstre
4、ssedsyllables.eg.Tiger,/tiger,/burning/brightInthe/forest/ofthe/night,Whatim/mortal/handor/eyeCouldframethy/fearful/symme/try?---W.BlakeLength:itcanproducesomerhetoricalandartisticeffect.eg.Thecurfewtollstheknellofpartingday,Thelowingherdwindslowlyo’erthelea,ThePloughmanhomewa
5、rdplodshiswearyway,Andleavestheworldtodarknessandtome.---ThomasGrayLongvowelsanddiphthongsmakethepoemslow,emotionalandsolemn;shortvowelsquick,passionate,tenseandexciting.Pause:itservesfortherhythmandmusicalityofpoetry.b.Meterormeasure(格律)poem---stanza/strophe---line/verse---fo
6、ot---arsis+thesis;Meterormeasurereferstotheformationwayofstressedandunstressedsyllables.Fourcommonmeters:a)Iambus;theiambicfoot(抑扬格)eg.Shewalks/inbeau/ty,like/thenightOfcloud/lessclimes/andstar/ryskies;Andall/that’sbest/ofdark/andbrightMeetin/heras/pectand/hereyes.---Byronb)Tr
7、ochee;thetrochaicfoot(扬抑格)eg.Never/seekto/tellthy/love,Lovethat/never/toldcan/be.---Blakec)Dactyl;thedactylicfoot(扬抑抑格)eg.Cannonto/rightofthem,Cannonto/leftofthem.Cannonin/frontofthem,Volley’dand/thunder’d.---Tennysond)Anapaest;theanapesticfoot(抑抑扬格)eg.Break,/break,/break,Onth
8、ycold/greystones,/Osea!AndIwould/thatmytongue/couldutterTheth