文档介绍：《英语诗歌欣赏》
Evaluation and Appreciation of English Poetry
“The literature that is written in some kind of verse form.
-----a reader’s definition
“the best words in the best order.”
-----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“not the assertion that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.”
-----. Eliot
Literature that is not prose
musical effect created by rhythm and sounds
precise and fresh imagery
levels of interpretation by the connotation of closer words and by allusions
Ⅰ.The Musical Effect of Poetry
Poetry has its roots in song.
epics, ballads, traveling bards, minstrels
Musical effects are mainly created by rhythm.
Foot----a group of syllables forming a metrical unit, a unit of rhythm.
Meter---the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables used in poem.
伐木丁丁,鸟鸣嘤嘤。
——四言诗
欲穷千里目,更上一层楼。
——五言诗
春风又绿江南岸。
——七言诗
monometer(单音步) pentameter(五音步)
dimeter (双音步) hexameter (六音步)
trimeter(三音步) heptameter (七音步)
tetrameter (四音步) octameter (八音步)
︱雪压︱冬云︱白絮︱飞︱
1 2 3 4
——tetrameter
Twinkle twinkle little star
——tetrameter
阴平、阳平、上声、去声
—/ ∨\
↘↙↘↙
平仄
老夫喜作黄昏颂,满目青山夕照明。
仄平仄仄平平仄,仄仄平平仄仄平。
平仄互协
“音乐的和有趣的思想结合”
——爱伦·坡
“欲调曼声,必谐三声“(平、上、去)
高低疾徐抑扬顿挫
——汉语四声调的特色
阴平声轻,阳平声重,上声后而举,去声清而远
stressed---accent 重音—扬
unstressed---ented 轻音—抑
five metric patterns (音律)