英语诗歌赏析教程

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英语诗歌赏析教程

A Course in English Poetry: Reading, Reacting, Writing

7 Figures of Speech 52

Fawziyya Abu Khalid: Butterfl ies 53

Nazik Al-Mala’ika: Elegy for a Woman of No Importance 56

8 Structure 59

Pablo Neruda: To the Foot from Its Child 59

9 Theme 64

Emily Dickinson: Crumbling Is Not an Instant’s Act 65

Part 3 Understanding Poetry 68

1 Qualifying a Group of Lines as Poetry68

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 68

Louis Zukofsky: I Walk in the Old Street 70

2 Active Reading Strategies73

3 The Experience of Poetry 74

Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays 74

4 The Interpretation of Poetry 76

Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 78

5 The Evaluation of Poetry 81

Judith Wright: Rainforest 83

Part 4 Poems for Further Reading86

Alexander Pushkin: If by Life You Were Deceived 86

Fedor Tyutchev: Silentium! 86

Sergei Yesenin: Scarlet Light of Sunset 88

Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen 89

William Wordsworth: To a Butterfl y 91

Léopold Sédar Senghor: Night of Sine 95

Fernando Pessoa: In the Terrible Night 97

Barbara Barnard: Disguises 100

Part 5 Writing About Poetry 102

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Unit Two Diction in Poetry

Part 1 Word Choice and Word Order 104

1 Poetic Diction 104

2 Denotative and Connotative Meanings 104

Judith Ortiz Cofer: My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory 105

3 Levels of Diction 107

Margaret Atwood: The City Planners 108

Wanda Coleman: Sears Life 111

4 Word Choice 113

Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 114

5 Word Order 117

E E Cummings: Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 119

Part 2 Voice: Speaker and Tone 123

1 The Speaker in the Poem 123

Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who Are You 123

William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper 124

William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow 126

Langston Hughes: Negro 129

2 The Tone of the Poem 131

Robert Frost: Fire and Ice 132

Ruth Fainlight: Flower Feet 133

Stephen Crane: War Is Kind 135

Part 3 Imagery and Figures of Speech 137

1 Imagery: Descriptive Language 137

John Keats: from The Eve of St Agnes 137

Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro 139

William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 141

Andrew Marvell: The Defi nition of Love 143

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark House 146

Suzanne Berger: The Meal 148

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2 Imagery: Figurative Language 149

George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty 150

Langston Hughes: Harlem 153

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Constantly Risking Absurdity 154

Marge Piercy: The Secretary Chant 158

Thosmas Campion: There Is a Garden in Her Face 159

Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose 161

Linda Hogan: from The Truth Is 163

Carl Sandburg: Chicago 166

Part 4 Poems for Further Reading169

Bei Dao: A Bouquet 169

Christina Rossetti: from Goblin Market 170

William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 172

W H Auden: Their Lonely Betters 174

Sylvia Plath: Mirror 176

Sylvia Plath: Metaphors 178

Part 5 Writing About Poetry 180

Unit Three Themes in Poetry

Part 1 Theme and Meaning 182

1 Determining a Poem’s Theme 182

Adrienne Rich: A Woman Mourned by Daughters 183

James Shirley: Death the Leveler 185

Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia 187

John Donne: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star 189

William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 193

2 Pathways to Meaning—Four Types of Irony 194

Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est 195

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 199

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art 201

Part 2 Symbol and Allegory 204

1 Symbolism 204

Anonymous: Psalm 23 205

William Blake: The Sick Rose 206

Robert Frost: For Once, Then, Something 208

2 Allegory 209

Christina Rossetti: Uphill 210

George Herbert: Virtue 211

Part 3 Allusion and Myth 213

1 Allusion 213

William Meredith: Dreams of Suicide 213

Eduardo Langagne: Discoveries 215

2 Myth 217

Countee Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel 217

Marilyn Hacker: Mythology 218

Part 4 Poems for Further Reading221

Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences 221

Paul Verlaine: Moonlight 224

Guillaume Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge 225

Edith Sdergran: Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones 228

William Blake: Ah, Sunfl ower 229

William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming 230

William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan 233

Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar 236

Part 5 Writing About Poetry 240

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Unit Four Forms of Poetry (I)

Part 1 Types of Poetry 242

1 Narrative Poetry 242

2 Lyric Poetry 243

John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn 244

Philip Larkin: Aubade 249

Elizabeth Alexander: Praise Song for the Day 253

John Ashbery: Vetiver 257

Ben Jonson: On My First Son 260

Part 2 Rhythm and Meter262

1 Metrical Patterns 262

Emily Dickinson: I Like to See It Lap the Miles— 264

Emily Brontё: The Night Is Darkening Round Me 266

Edward Lear: Calico Pie 268

2 Caesura and Line Breaks 271

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 272

John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 275

Theodore Roethke: My Papa’s Waltz 280

Part 3 Closed Form (I)283

1 Blank Verse 283

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses 284

2 The Couplet 289

Alexander Pope: from Epistle II of An Essay on Man 290

3 The Tercet 293

Matsuo Bashō: Haiku 293

Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 295

4 The Quatrain 300

Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 301

5 The Ballad Stanza 303

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Anonymous: Bonny Barbara Allan 303

6 The Common Measure307

Donald Hall: My Son, My Executioner 307

Part 4 Poems for Further Reading310

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To the Moon 310

Friedrich Hlderlin: The Neckar 313

Heinrich Heine: The Lorelei 316

Horace: To Licinius 318

Ben Jonson: To Heaven 321

William Butler Yeats: When You Are Old 323

Gabriela Mistral: Richness 325

Part 5 Writing About Poetry 327

Unit Five Forms of Poetry (II)

Part 1 Closed Form (II)330

1 Rhyme Royal 330

Theodore Roethke: I Knew a Woman 330

2 Ottava Rima 333

William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium 334

3 The Spenserian Stanza 337

George Gordon, Lord Byron: Apostrophe to the Ocean 338

4 The Sestina 342

Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina 342

5 The Villanelle 345

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 345

Part 2 Closed Form (III): The Sonnet 348

1 The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet 348

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Petrarch: Sonnet 90 (Laura) 349

2 The English or Shakespearean Sonnet 352

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 352

3 The Spenserian Sonnet 356

Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 30 356

Part 3 Open Form 359

1 Open Form and Poetic License 359

Leslie Marmon Silko: Prayer to the Pacifi c 362

2 Conventional Techniques in the Open Form Poem 365

Dudley Randall: A Poet Is Not a Jukebox 366

3 Walt Whitman’s Long-lasting Influence 370

Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself 371

Nazik al-Mala’ika: Love Song for Words 376

4 Prose Poetry 378

Shuntarō Tanikawa: A Personal Opinion About Gray 379

5 Visual Poetry 381

E E Cummings: Buffalo Bill’s 383

George Herbert: Easter Wings 385

Part 4 Poems for Further Reading387

Giacomo Leopardi: The Infi nite 387

Dino Campana: Genoa Woman 388

Salvatore Quasimodo: Only if Love Should Pierce You 390

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon 391

Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox 393

Marianne Moore: Poetry 396

Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California 398

Jaime Torres Bodet: The Window 401

Part 5 Writing About Poetry 403

Bibliography 404

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