英语诗歌类型

1、关于英语诗歌的类型1第一张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月21. Epic 史诗 - recounting in a continuous narrative the life and action of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons - Homer: Iliad and Odyssey Virgil: Aeneid Dante: Divine Comedy Anglo-Saxon legend: Beowulf Milton: Paradise Lost第二张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月32. Ball

2、ad 歌谣 - a narrative poem of folk song which tells a story in simple colloquial language, usually in four-line stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymed - the border area between England and Scotland - the Middle ages - common people, oral tradition - traditional ballad: Robin Hood Ballads - li

3、terary ballad: Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner第三张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月43. Romance 传奇 - primarily medieval fiction in verse or prose dealing with adventures of chivalry and love - French origin - feudal system - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Le Morte dArthur 第四张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月5II. Ly

4、ric poetry 抒情诗- taking its name from songs sung by individuals or a chorus accompanied by the lyre- possibly the oldest: the Song of Solomon and the Psalms- Francesco Petrarch Italian sonnet- love as the most important subject matter- different from narrative poems: Narrative Lyric story song action

5、 emotion第五张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月61. Sonnet 十四行诗 - a fourteen-line poem, written in iambic pentameter ( lines with ten syllables, with accents falling on every second syllable) - Petrarch in Italy - England: Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard - Spenserian sonnet: - Shakespearean sonnet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg 第六

6、张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月72. Ode 颂诗 - a form of lyric poem in which the poet highly celebrates a person, a thing or an event - length, stanza forms, style and purpose - Shelley: Ode to the West Wind Keats: Ode to Autumn 第七张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月83. Song 歌 - a short lyric poem intended to be set to music in

7、either vocal performance or with accompaniment of musical instruments - Ben Jonson: Song: to Celia 第八张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月94. Elegy 挽诗;挽歌;哀歌 - elegiac (Greek and Roman) - written in couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line - usually a reflective poem of lamentation or reg

8、ret, with no set metrical form, generally of melancholy tone, often on death - Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard第九张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月105. Dirge 挽歌 - originally a religious service in honor of the dead - now any song of mourning, shorter and less formal than an elegy, and often repr

9、esented as a text meant to be sung aloud - William Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five (from Act I, Scene II, The Tempest) 第十张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月116. Aubade 晨曲 - a morning serenade (F.) - a poem about the coming of dawn, or a piece of music meant to be sung or played by a lover outdoors lamenting parting

10、at daybreak - John Donn: The Sun Rising Robert Browning: Parting at Morning第十一张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月127. Pastoral 田园诗 - an artistic composition dealing with the life of shepherds or with a simple, rural existence - usually idealizing shepherds lives in order to create an image of peaceful and uncorrup

11、ted existence - describing the simplicity, charm and serenity attributed to country - placing kindly, rural people in nature-centered activities - William Wordsworth: Michael: A Pastoral Poem第十二张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月13III. Dramatic poetry 戏剧诗 - any verse written for the stage - using the discourse of

12、the characters involved to tell a story or portray a situation - presenting the voice of an imaginary character (or characters) speaking directly, without any additional narration by the author - dramatic monologue by Robert Browning: My Last Duchess 第十三张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月14IV. Other types of poetr

13、y1. Descriptive poetry - devoted to the portray of external objects or scenes - giving expression to the poets thoughts and feelings aroused by the various scenes and objects in the natural world - often didactic - William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 第十四张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月152. Refl

14、ective poetry - treating of reflections and thoughts of the author - expressing a mere reflection, or more serious thought - expounding human life, the relationships of man with the world by means of various methods of other types of poetry 第十五张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月163. Didactic poetry - to instruct or to persuade, to teach - Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism第十六张，PPT共十八页，创作于2022年6月174. Satirical poetry - exhibiting or examining human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or