• Suggestions on Reading Poetry 1. Read slowly and deliberately, read aloud. 2. Identify speaker, subject, situation, tone. 3. Pay attention to special language phenom.. 4. Consider the form and how its structure shapes its thought and emotion. 5. Test poem against your own experience. 6. Identify social, cultural and moral values. Your own values influence your evaluation.
• Two features: • a thirsting curiosity for the classical
literature. • the humanism means the new feeling
of admiration for human beauty and human achievement.
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Lecture 1 William Shakespeare
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616) (1) Historical Background
• A. Queen Elizabeth I: a powerful England with the fast development of capitalism.
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• C. Shakespeare lived in such a period and also such a period made him the most famous and most important English writer.
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Enjoying Poetry
Or: 1. Voice: Speaker and Tone 2. Image 3. Figurative Language 4. Symbol and Allegory 5. Syntax 6. Sound Effect 7. Form 8. Theme
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• The Definition of Poetry • Types of Poetry
1. the narrative: Epic, Romance, Ballad民谣 2. the lyric: Elegy, Epigram, Sonnet悼念/讽刺 • Elements of Poetry 1. Images & Imagery（意象群） 2. Figures of Speech: Simile & Metaphor, Symbol,
Selected Readings in English and American Literature
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Literature
• Literature n. • 1. The body of written works of a language, period, or
culture. • 2. Imaginative or creative writing, especially of
recognized artistic value: "Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" • 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. • 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature. • 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject. • 6. Music. All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.
• (2) Life and Works (Introduction of the great writer’s life)
• A. His complete works: 37 plays 2 narrative poems 154 sonnets
• B. mainly famous for his great plays, especially the outstanding “Four Great Tragedies”. ——Hamlet （哈姆雷特） ——King Lear（李尔王） ——Othello （奥赛罗） ——Macbeth （麦克白）
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• B. Renaissance:
an intellectual movement sprung first in Iy and gradually spread all over Europe.
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Allegory, Personification, Hyperbole, Metonymy, Allusion, Paradox寓言/拟人/夸张/借代/典故/矛盾 3. Sound of Poetry: Rhyme, Rhythm & Meter 4. Forms of Poetry: Rhyming Forms, Blank Verse & Free Verse押韵诗/无韵诗/自由诗 5. Theme—the main idea