人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高二上04课文

[00:05.09]Speaking
[00:07.73]Example:
[00:10.37]I'm interested to read some Romantic¹ poetry about love and friend sip².
[00:16.40]Why are you interested in that kind of poetry?
[00:20.53]Because I think Romantic poetry is about real passion³.
[00:26.10]I see.What kind of poetry would you not like to read?
[00:31.95]I don't want to read English poetry about death and World War One,
[00:37.83]becuase I think it is too sad.
[00:41.98]Reading  ENGLISH POETRY
[00:50.23]Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together.
[00:56.87]More than any other form of literature,poetry plays with sounds,words and grammar.
[01:04.52]That makes poetry difficult to write,but very interesting to read.
[01:11.08]Poetry also calls up all the colours,feelings,
[01:16.36]experiences and curious images of a dream world.
[01:21.50]China has a long history
[01:25.16]during which many of the world's greatest poets were active.
[01:30.33]Poems by Du Fu,Li Bai and Wang Wei among others stand out in the halls of glory⁴.
[01:38.59]When you have read some Chinese poems,
[01:42.64]you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry shares.
[01:49.40]The form is very important:
[01:53.16]the number of lines and the number of characters in each line.
[01:58.41]Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm⁵ and rhyme⁶.
[02:03.87]Despite its short history,there is a lot of good English poetry around.
[02:10.12]The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English
[02:15.68]that is now difficult to understand.
[02:19.83]Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare⁷,
[02:25.08]towards the end of the sixteenth century.
[02:29.84]The seventeenth century was a great time for English poetry.
[02:35.19]Shakespeare is most famous for his plays.
[02:39.87]His sonnets⁹, however,belong to the best English poetry.
[02:45.51]In the next generation of great English poets we meet John Donne.
[02:51.57]Chinese readers admire his works¹⁰ because of his use of surprising images
[02:58.34]that reminds them of the works of poets such as Su Dongpo.
[03:04.01]Before the end of the century,there was another famous writer,John Milton.
[03:10.25]Once published,
[03:13.12]his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line.
[03:19.05]In the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope¹¹
[03:24.30]who wrote the finest poetry in England.
[03:28.56]The next period that produced a great number of fine poets
[03:33.73]was the nineteenth century.
[03:36.89]Greatly loved in China are the English Romantic poets.
[03:42.64]Although they were all born in the eighteenth century,
[03:47.11]they wrote their major works in the early years of the nineteenth century.
[03:52.96]John Keats died at a very young age in 1821;
[03:58.52]while William Wordsworth,who spent much of his time in the English Lake District,
[04:05.37]lived to the age of 80 and died in 1850.
[04:10.23]The nature poems by William Wordsworth,
[04:14.67]George Gordon Byron's Isles¹² of Greece
[04:19.13]and the sonnets and long poems by John Keats have long been favourites.
[04:25.80]The style and atmosphere in their poems
[04:30.24]has often led to comparisons¹³ with poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.
[04:36.61]Finally, modern poets have their special attraction¹⁴
[04:42.07]because they stand closest to us both in the language and images they use.
[04:49.33]Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost¹⁵.
[04:54.66]The introduction¹⁶ of English poetry to China came late.
[04:59.62]Towards the end of the nineteenth century
[05:03.75]Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry.
[05:08.79]The great moment for European literature to come to China
[05:13.94]is between 1910 and the late 1930s
[05:19.90]when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo
[05:25.96]translated both poetry and novels into Chinese.
[05:31.62]More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English.
[05:37.27]Translations can be good,
[05:40.74]but being able to read in English gives you much more choice

[05:46.20]Besides,no matter how well a poem is translated,
[05:51.76]something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
[05:56.81]Reading poetry in English also opens the door to finding¹⁷ new ways
[06:03.36]of expressing yourself in Chinese.
[06:07.33]Finally, poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the West.
[06:14.39]They can help us to understand each other better,or as Mu Dan wrote:
[06:20.55]Quietly,we embrace¹⁸ in a world lit up by words.
[06:26.80]Integrating¹⁹ skills Reading,listening and writing
[06:36.36]SONGS AND POEMS
[06:39.88]Why read,and sometimes even write poetry?
[06:46.23]That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs.
[06:54.09]I sing when I feel good.
[06:58.17]When I sing my favourite songs, I feel even better.
[07:03.81]Sometimes when I am listening to music and to the song words,
[07:09.77]I feel that it was written for me.
[07:13.84]A good song always makes me feel something.
[07:18.49]There are songs that I sing in my head between classes
[07:24.26]and songs that I want to sing when the school bell rings by the end of the day.
[07:30.43]They help me get through the day.
[07:34.50]They are like bright and warm colours in the middle of greys and shades.
[07:41.17]I like songs about love and friendship.
[07:46.52]The extraordinary thing is,
[07:50.47]my feelings are more special when I sing my favourite songs in English.
[07:58.04]I also like reading.
[08:01.49]I used to avoid poetry until an e-pal told me.
[08:07.55]I should recite²⁰ poems and not look up the meaning of the words.
[08:14.21]Poetry uses many difficult words and idioms,
[08:19.80]but the best thing is to just forget about them.
[08:24.76]In the beginning I felt quite strange.
[08:29.91]Now I always lock the door.
[08:34.17]Reading aloud gives you a strange feeling,
[08:39.34]but when you have some practice and fall into the rhythm,
[08:44.59]the rhyme and the sounds of the words,it is really a special experience.
[08:52.32]I started with small poems,but now I think I most like long poems.
[09:00.19]I have different feelings with different poems.
[09:04.76]When I have had a bad day at school,I read Keats and forget everything.
[09:12.20]When I am sad I read Wordsworth by the light of a candle.
[09:18.16]When the poem is finished,I close the book and my sadness is gone.
[09:26.02]1.Listen to the tape and read the following poems in class
[09:33.10]discuss with your classmates what they mean to you.
[09:37.75]Dust of snow.
[09:40.91]The way a crow Shook down on me
[09:45.87]The dust of snow From a hemlock²¹ tree
[09:51.02]Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part.
[09:58.39]of a day I had rued²².
[10:02.33]By Robert Frost
[10:05.39]Right here waiting Oceans apart,day after day,
[10:12.83]And I slowly go insane²³ I hear your voice on the line,
[10:19.96]But it doesn't stop the pain.
[10:23.73]If I see you next to never,How can I say forever.
[10:30.26]Wherever you go,whatever you do.
[10:35.32]I will be right here waiting for you.
[10:40.08]Whatever it takes,or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you.
[10:48.72]By Richard Marx
[10:51.89]Work Book  Unit 4  Integrating skills
[11:02.05]Reading   THE BIRTH OF MODERN POETRY
[11:07.32]When asked about poetry,
[11:10.77]most people will say that a poem is a text that has rhythm and rhyme.
[11:17.15]Famous are the lines by William Blake,
[11:21.51]which have clear rhythm and rhyme:
[11:25.66]Tiger, tiger, burning bright,in the forest of the night.
[11:31.83]Other people will add that poems must have a certain form,
[11:37.10]with a fixed²⁴ number of lines and a fixed rhyme pattern,such as a sonnet⁸.
[11:43.95]With rhyme,most people mean the rhyme of sound of words at the end of the lines.
[11:51.71]It is also true that much of the classical²⁵ poetry that we have looks like that.
[11:59.07]Except for some short songs and poems included in his plays,
[12:05.03]all of Shakespeare's greatest poems are sonnets.
[12:09.99]John Milton was one of the first poets
[12:14.35]who started writing poems without rhyme at the end of the lines

[12:20.52]He wrote other poems too,but he is famous for his long poems without rhyme.
[12:27.47]After Milton,
[12:30.34]almost every poet had a hand at this kind of poetry that was free of rhyme
[12:37.19]Wordsworth and Keats wrote some such poems,
[12:42.46]but that is not what they are famous for.
[12:46.62]This style of poetry became known²⁶ as free verse²⁷.
[12:52.07]It was not until the twentieth century that modern poetry was really developed.
[12:58.63]Modern poets wanted to break with all the traditional forms of poetry.
[13:04.38]One of the characteristics²⁸ of modern poetry
[13:08.95]is that it usually does not have rhyme at the end of a line,
[13:13.99]and it is also often about common topics.
[13:18.85]In China, free verse was known and used much earlier.
[13:24.31]The following poem by Bai Juyi is an example of a poem written in free verse.
[13:32.56]THE UNHAPPY OFFICIAL  By Bai Juyi
[13:38.63]Never tired of study,reading until he could not see;
[13:45.18]holding his pen until his fingers became painful;
[13:50.22]sitting for exams ten times until he passed;
[13:55.58]success has come too late;
[13:59.42]he is now an important official but his hair is already white;
[14:05.30]there is little happiness for him;
[14:08.85]when young,he spent his days being very poor;
[14:14.10]now old and often sick money and fame are of no use to him.
[14:20.66]Living behind the great red gates
[14:24.81]is a youth with the taste of mother's milk still in his mouth;
[14:30.16]not much to look at,with soft skin like a girl's and a gentle face;
[14:36.93]he has never worn²⁹ a soldier's uniform ;
[14:41.29]at twenty he got his father's title and money;
[14:46.57]with the coming of spring,he is always playing outside,
[14:52.63]wearing soft furs and riding upon a fine horse;
[14:57.78]spending mornings with gamblers and drinkers,
[15:02.61]and in the evenings sleeping with the girls in a singsong house;
[15:08.36]he spends his money paying wine bills,
[15:13.03]using:what is left over on pretty girls;
[15:18.07]besides drinking,singing,and hunting with dogs or horses,he knows little else.
[15:25.94]On the hills,wild grasses grow under a great pine tree;
[15:32.31]two living things,one reaching;high and the other happy to stay low,
[15:38.76]from old times it has been this way,
[15:42.84]you are not alone in knowing this sadness.
[15:47.28]Translation: Rewi Alley

1 romantic   

adj.浪漫的，风流的，传奇性的，夸大的，想象的，浪漫派的

参考例句：

• She thinks it will be romantic to be an actress.她认为当个女演员会很浪漫。
• Her husband is very romantic.她丈夫非常浪漫。

2 sip   

v.小口地喝，抿，呷；n.一小口的量

参考例句：

• She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
• Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。

3 passion   

n.热爱，强烈的感情，热情，耶稣的受难

参考例句：

• He had a passion for music.他酷爱音乐。
• In his passion,he tore the letter into pieces.在盛怒之下，他把那封信撕得粉碎。

4 glory   

n.光荣，荣誉；壮丽，辉煌；v.自豪，得意，狂喜

参考例句：

• I was fascinated by the glory of the sunset.落日的壮观把我吸引住了。
• Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom.智者不可夸耀自己智慧。

5 rhythm   

n.韵律；节奏

参考例句：

• He has an ear for the rhythm of Irish speech.他对爱尔兰语的节奏很敏感。
• His poem has a pleasing rhythm.他的诗有和谐的韵律。

6 rhyme   

n.韵，押韵，韵文；vi.押韵，作诗；vt.使押韵，用韵诗表达

参考例句：

• I cannot find a rhyme to " hiccups ".我不能找到和 “hiccups”同韵的词。
• The last two lines of this poem don't rhyme properly.这首诗后两句不怎么压韵。

7 Shakespeare   

n.莎士比亚(16世纪英国剧作家、诗人)

参考例句：

• Shakespeare is a giant among writers.莎士比亚是作家中的巨擘.
• He read Shakespeare to help his English.他阅读莎士比亚的作品以提高自己的英语水平。

8 sonnet   

n.十四行诗

参考例句：

• The composer set a sonnet to music.作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲。
• He wrote a sonnet to his beloved.他写了一首十四行诗，献给他心爱的人。

9 sonnets   

n.十四行诗( sonnet的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Keats' reputation as a great poet rests largely upon the odes and the later sonnets. 作为一个伟大的诗人，济慈的声誉大部分建立在他写的长诗和后期的十四行诗上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He referred to the manuscript circulation of the sonnets. 他谈到了十四行诗手稿的流行情况。 来自辞典例句

10 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

11 pope   

n.（罗马天主教的）教皇

参考例句：

• The Pope is the spiritual leader of many Christians.教皇是众多基督徒的宗教领袖。
• The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。

12 isles   

岛( isle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the geology of the British Isles 不列颠群岛的地质
• The boat left for the isles. 小船驶向那些小岛。

13 comparisons   

比较( comparison的名词复数 )； [修辞学]比喻； [语法学]（形容词或副词的）比较等级； 类似

参考例句：

• I. Comparisons to a Living Creature (i. e., the Sphinx riddle) 1．比作某种生物（如斯芬克司谜） 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
• Make comparisons about the products. 对产品做对比。 来自超越目标英语 第4册

14 attraction   

n.吸引人的事物；吸引；吸引力

参考例句：

• The main attraction of the place is the nightlife.这个地方最具吸引力的是夜生活。
• Amy is always the centre of attraction at parties.艾米总是聚会上的中心人物。

15 frost   

n.霜，冰冻，冷漠；vt.覆着霜，冻结，结霜；vi.受冻，起霜

参考例句：

• A lot of crops were damaged by the frost.这次霜冻，受害的庄稼不少。
• Try to harvest the fruit before the first frost.在第一次霜冻以前要设法把水果收摘完。

16 introduction   

n.(to)介绍；传入，引进；导言，导论，绪论

参考例句：

• The introduction tells you how to use the book.引言告诉你怎样使用这本书。
• A letter of introduction will ensure you an interview.凭一封介绍信准保会接待你。

17 finding   

n.发现，发现物；调查的结果

参考例句：

• The finding makes some sense.该发现具有一定的意义。
• That's an encouraging finding.这是一个鼓舞人心的发现。

18 embrace   

vt.拥抱；包括；包围，环绕；n.拥抱，怀抱

参考例句：

• He held her to him in a warm embrace.他热列地拥抱她。
• The hills embrace the village.山丘环绕着村庄。

19 integrating   

使一体化( integrate的现在分词 )； 使整合； 使完整； 使结合成为整体

参考例句：

• We should carry out the policy of integrating unified planning with the principle of adaptation to local conditions. 我们应该执行计划同因事制宜的原则相结合的政策。
• Talks will now begin about integrating the activities of both companies. 关于合并两家公司业务的谈判现在将会开始。

20 recite   

vt/vi.背诵，朗读，叙述

参考例句：

• He is going to recite a poem.他将要朗诵一首诗。
• He can recite that poem from memory.他能凭记忆背诵那首诗。

21 hemlock   

n.毒胡萝卜，铁杉

参考例句：

• He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock.判处他喝一杯毒汁。
• Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock,with three pines at hand.这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起，旁边还有三株松树。

22 rued   

v.对…感到后悔( rue的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He rued the day they had bought such a large house. 他懊悔他们买了这样大的一所房子。
• She rued the trip with him. 她后悔不该和他去旅行。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

23 insane   

adj.蠢极的，荒唐的，精神错乱的，疯狂的

参考例句：

• Insane people are sometimes dangerous.精神病人有时非常危险。
• The letter made her insane with jealousy.那封信使她妒忌得发疯。

24 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

25 classical   

adj.古典的；古典文学的；正统派的；古典主义的

参考例句：

• This classical poem is hard to understand.这首古诗很费解。
• She listens to classical music for relaxation.她听古典音乐放松。

26 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

27 verse   

n.诗，韵文，诗行

参考例句：

• He is good at verse.他善于作诗。
• His book was in parts written in verse.他的书有许多地方是用韵文写的。

28 characteristics   

n.特性，特征，特色，[数]（对数的）首数( characteristic的名词复数 )；独特性；性质

参考例句：

• the textural characteristics of the rocks 岩石的纹理特征
• Men have ascribed their own characteristics to their gods. 人们认为他们的特性属于诸神。 来自《简明英汉词典》

29 worn   

adj.用旧的，疲倦的；vbl.wear的过去分词

参考例句：

• The child's trousers have worn through at the knees.孩子裤子的膝盖处磨破了。
• My shoes are worn out.我的鞋子穿坏了。