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Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

Unit 4 A Garden of Poems. Reading. English Poetry. Pre-reading. Do you know any Chinese poets? Can you name some? Can you tell who are the people below?. John Keats (1795 - 1821). Lord Byron (1788 - 1824). William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). John Donne (1572-1631). (A).

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Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

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  1. Unit 4 A Garden of Poems Reading English Poetry

  2. Pre-reading Do you know any Chinese poets? Can you name some? Can you tell who are the people below? John Keats (1795 - 1821) Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) John Donne (1572-1631)

  3. (A) Fast Reading • Modern English came into being from about the end of the ___ century. • A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th • The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers of the poems buy ___ • A. Dufu B. Libai C. Su Dongpo D. Guo Moruo • 3. Byron’s Isles of Greece (1824) is an example of ____ • A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry D. modern poetry • The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning of _____century. • A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th • ____’s poetry reminds Chinese readers of the poems by Du Fu and Li Bai. • A. Shakespeare B. Byron C. John Donne D. Robert Frost (C) (C) (D) (B)

  4. True or False (F) • Poetry is quite difficult to write and boring to read. • The number of lines and characters in each line is quite important for good poems as well as rhythm and rhyme. • William Shakespeare is only famous for his plays. • According to the time, the correct order of the poets should be:Shakespeare,Alexander Pope,John Milton, and John Donne. • Romantic poems and nature poems are two styles of English poems. • We have read English poems since Tang Dynasty. • Translating poems into other languages can not only help people to read more but also understand it without losing any spirit. (T) (F) (F) (T) (F) (F)

  5. Timeline of Great Poets (7) (3) 1700 1800 1900 2000 1600 (4) (2) (1) (5) (8) (6)

  6. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616 )

  7. John Donne (1572 - 1631 )

  8. John Keats (1795 - 1821)

  9. John Milton (1608 - 1674)

  10. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

  11. George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824 )

  12. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

  13. Robert Frost and his son (1874 – 1963)

  14. Su Dongpo (1037-1101)

  15. Wang Wei (701-761) Li Bai (701-762) Du Fu (712-770 )

  16. Guo Moruo (1892-1978) Lu Xun (1881-1936)

  17. Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words

  18. Welcome to the Garden of poems !

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