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1、Pastoral poetry,Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,Cavalier poets,Verse writers, often courtiers and squires who sided with the King Charles I(1625-49)against the Parliament and Puritans. They called themselves “sons” of Ben (Johnson). Their lyrical verse, often short songs, lo

2、ve fancies, characterized by lightness of heart and of morals, were written for the entertainment of the court and marked by grace, elegance, high spirits, wit, (with clarity of Elizabethan lyrics, but without its imaginative flights)often sounded the note of carpe diem. Richard Lovelace: To Locasca

3、, Going to the Wars Robert Herrick: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Sir John Suckling(1609-42); Thomas Carew(1598-1639),Carpe diem,A quotation from Horaces(65-8 BC) Odes meaning “seize the day”, a common theme or motif in European lyric poetry, in which the speaker argues (often to a hesitant v

4、irgin) that since life is short , pleasure should be enjoyed while there is time. In some Christian poems and sermons, this motif warns us to prepare our souls for death, rather than our bodies for bed.,Metaphysical school,A name given to a diverse group of 17th century English poets whose work is n

5、otable for its ingenious use of intellectual and theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes and far-fetched imagery. The leading poet of this school is John Donne. Andrew Marvel , George Herbert, Richard Crashaw etc. also belong to the group.,John Donne (1572-1631),He seems often

6、 to stand before us like a contemporary with his metaphysical poems. In his poems he described women in love with suggestions of sensual and physical love; he combined the complicated reasoning with far-fetched comparisons or conceits(奇想，奇喻) and strange, broken images. His influence upon T. S. Eliot

7、 was great and important.,To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,Words that have more than one meaning: 1 mistress: love, lady; woman who rules over others 2 chase: court (a mistress); pursue, run after 3 embrace: hold in arms; believe in 4 arms: weapons, warfare, fighting; arms of a love 5 fly: escape, flee

8、; run,Ballad,A ballad is a folk song or orally transmitted poem usually in quatrain lines telling some popular story in local history or legend. The meter of a ballad : iambic tetrameter in the first and third lines and iambic trimeter in the second and fourth lines The rhyme scheme: abcb or abab,To

9、 the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,Iambic tetrameter and trimeter with feminine ending to each trimeter line. Masculine rhymes: monosyllabic rhymes (egs: make/shake; miss/kiss) Feminime rhymes: disyllabic rhymes (egs: ranches/branches),To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,劝君莫惜金缕衣，劝君惜取少年时。 花开堪折只须折，莫待无花空折枝。 （唐人绝句）,To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,Use of sound devices: Alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rhyme,Comparison and contrast,Pastoral love (love invitation) st