大学英语复习资料：introducing+english+poetry

1、Introducing English Poetry,Sonnet,Dear, this is going to be tough!,In terms of meter(韵律):,1) Metrical Poems（格律诗）,Regular Rhyme; Definite Number of Lines,2) Free Verse（自由诗）,Irregular Rhyme; Irregular Number of Lines,3) Blank Verse（无韵诗）,Without Rhyme ;,SOUND EFFECTS,Rhyme: sameness of sounds of two or

2、 more words . Say, day, play pleasure, puff,END RHYME(行末韵),A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line People laugh and people cry Some give up some always try Some say hi while some say bye Others may forget you but never I.,Alliteration:,Definition: Repetition of co

3、nsonants, especially at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.重複字首的子音,Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.,头韵.,Assonance.,Definition: Repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words.重复元音 Asleep under a tree,time and ti

4、de wait for no man,each evening they flee from me,元音押韵,Consonance,Definition: identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds 重复辅音 tit, tat Creak, crack. Worth, breath,辅音押韵,what sound effect will the rhyme produce?,establish relations among words between lines, or within a line.,musica

5、lly pleasant to ear,rhyme scheme，or rhyme pattern:,Pattern or sequence in which end rhyme occurs. The first sound is designated as an a, the second as b, and so on. When the first sound is repeated, it is designated as an a also. For example:,Can we define the rhyme pattern of this poem?,Shall I com

6、pare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, o

7、r natures changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to

8、thee.,Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed: And every fair from fair sometime decl

9、ines, By chance or natures changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst: So long as men can breathe, or eye can see, So long lives this, and th

10、is gives life to thee.,a,b,a,b,C,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,g,What is a sonnet?,A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.,Iambic what? Oh dear, this is going to be tougher!,Pentameter(抑扬格)?,Well an iamb is a “soft” beat followed by a “loud” beat: daDA daDA daDA daDA One “daDA” = one “foot” . iambi

11、c pentameter = 5 iambs in each line (softLOUD softLOUD softLOUD softLOUD softLOUD):,Iambic Pentameter,Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses.,Rhyming patterns,The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains followed by a couplet, the scheme being: abab cdcd efef gg. More head scratching?,The Sonnet,A poem with 14 lines The “Shakespearean” variety uses the following rhyme patt