英美文学English PoetryTradition and Modernism.pptVIP

I Traditional English Poetry 1 content of poetry 2 elements of poetry 3 metrical features of poetry 4 examples 1 content of poetry(themes) nature, life,death, belief, time, youth, beauty; love, feelings of different kinds ; reason(wisdom); moral lesson/morality, moralizing, affirms established values; meaning fixed, one-dimensional, value orientation clear. 2??elements of poetry: 1) elements peculiar/essential to poetry: meter, rhyme, sound( assonance, consonance, alliteration), form of poetry 2)??elements important to poetry: imagery, symbols, metaphor, simile, diction(connotative) 3) other elements: tone, style, character, setting, point of view, allusion etc. ???3?? metrical features of English poetry(I): 1）meter（格律）: regularized rhythm ; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time 2）rhyme（韵）: repetition at regular intervals in a line or lines of poetry of similar or identical sounds based on a correspondence between the vowels and succeeding consonants or accented syllables; 3 metrical features(II) 3）rhyme scheme（韵律结构） any fixed pattern of rhymes charactering a whole poem or its stanzas 4)?forms of poetry: ballad, heroic couplet, sonnet, blank verse (cf free verse) metrical features(III):foot 5）foot（音步）: the basic metrical or rhythmical unit within a line of poetry. A foot of poetry generally consists of an accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables arranged in a variety of patterns. The four standard feet distinguished in English poetry are: Some patterns of feet (I) a)??iamb(iambic)(抑扬格)，eg to′day b) trochee(trochaic)(扬抑格),eg ′morning c) anapest(anapestic)(抑抑扬格) eg on the ′top Some patterns of feet(II) d)??dactyl(dactylic)(扬抑抑格) eg ′evening e)??spondee(spondaic) and pyrrhic(pyrrhic) iambic tetrameter （抑扬格四音步）or pentameter（五音步） ? (Note: In English usually one-sy