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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
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Comments on the Definitions 1.Poetry as Moral Instruction 2. Poetry as Self-expression 3. Poetry as Contemplation 4. Poetry as Literary Exercise
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
： Western Definitions
poetry is a record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds --Shelley blood, imagination, intellect running together --Yeats poetry is saying one thing and meaning another -- Frost
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Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit Dumb As old medallions to the thumb Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏 :Requirements
and Assessment
1. Class attendance accounts for 20% 2. Involvement in class activity 5% 3. Poetry chanting 5% 4. Final Exam 70%
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
：Teaching Program
Week 1 What is Poetry?--A Study of Chinese and English Definitions of Poetry Week 2 Beauty of Sound and Rhyme in Chinese and English Poetry Week 3 Narrativeness and Lyricalness--Two Different Traditions of Chinese and English Poetry Week4 Directness and Indirectness--Two Different Versifications of Chinese and English Poetry
诗艺 诗应该可触摸，而一声不吭， 如同一只球状的水果 沉默 似旧勋章任由拇指把握 寂静，如窗台被衣袖磨平的石 栏杆，长满青苔 诗应该不用文字 如鸟的飞翔展翅 诗应该任由时间流逝而不动 好似月亮在空中攀登 渐渐离去，如月亮把被黑夜缠 绕的树解放一枝一丫次第沐浴 着月光
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves, Memory by memory the mind— A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs A poem should be equal to: Not true For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea A poem should not mean But be.
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
： Exபைடு நூலகம்lanation
The Didactic View: Poetry as Moral Instruction 1.poetry as a means to influence personal morality 2.poetry as a reflection of people’s feelings towards the government and an exposure of the social evils 3.Poetry should be “ya” that is “elegant or refined ”, especially in themes, ”no evil thought”
remember specific definitions of Chinese and western scholars
know the differences & similarities in understanding poetry
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Teaching Program Chinese Definitions Western Definitions
The poem articulates what is on the mind intently; song makes language last long. 诗言志,歌咏言《尚书》 Poetry is where the heart’s wishes go, what lies in the heart is “wish”, when expressed in words, it is “poetry” 诗者，志之所之也，在心为志，发言为声。《诗 大序》 Poetry is “to sing what is in the heart”. 诗者，吟咏情性也.《诗大序》
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF WESTERN AND CHINESE POETRY
Unit 1
What is Poetry?
Objectives:
After the unit, the students are supposed to be able to
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understand what poetry is
Examining time: April 23 2015 (Thursday) Place: Room1334 , The first Teaching Building Patterns: Five essay questions
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
： Chinese Definitions
Ars Poetica
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Poetry is a great thing for everyone to understand. It lets you live in the world with new spectacles.
Poetry enables us to know what it feels like to be alive in the world. Only poetry in the broad sense of the word can help us to answer such questions and help us , thus , to an understanding of ourselves and of our own values.
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
： Explanation
The Technical View: Poetry as Literary Exercise 1.Advocation of imitation of earlier poets and mastery of the technique of versification 2.What makes poetry different from prose is that it possesses regulated sounds and can be recited
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中英诗歌比较与欣赏
： Western Definitions
Poetry is kind of saying ,the way of the saying and the nature of the said Poetry is concerned with the massiveness, the multidimensional quality, of experience. Poetry is a response to, and an evaluation of , our experience of the objective, bustling world and of our ideas about it, --Cleanth Brooks
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
：Teaching Program
Week5 Image of Chinese Poetry Week 6 English Image Poetry Week 7 Comparison and Appreciation of English Versions from Classical Chinese Poetry (CCP) Week8 Final Exam
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中英诗歌 比较 与欣赏
： Explanation