学术英语(人文)Unit-4

Unit4AppreciationofPoetry学术英语人文AcademicEnglishforHumanitiesUnit4AppreciationofPoetryUnit4AppreciationofPoetryUnit4AppreciationofPoetry•Lead-in•TextA•TextB•TextC•AcademicLanguageandDiscourse•Listening•Speaking•WritingUnitContentsUnit4AppreciationofPoetry•Lead-in–Lead-inactivities–SupplementaryinformationUnit4AppreciationofPoetryUnit4AppreciationofPoetryDiscussion:Whatdoyouthinkarethetypicalfeaturesofapoem?Lead-inActivitiesUnit4AppreciationofPoetry–Classroomactivities–Supplementaryinformation–SuggestedanswerkeyUnit4AppreciationofPoetry•TextAWhatIsPoetry?Unit4AppreciationofPoetryWhatIsPoetry?TextAClassroomactivities1.GiveabriefintroductiontoJohnKeats.2.Readaloudthepoem“OdetoaNightingale”andworkinpairstodiscussthequestionsintheLead-inTask.3.DoTask1andTask2/CriticalReadingandThinking.4.Summarizetheessentialfeaturesof“authenticpoetry”accordingtoTextA.Unit4AppreciationofPoetryJohnKeatsTextASupplementaryinformationJohnKeatswasaBritishRomanticpoetandaleadingfigureintheRomanticMovement.(Tobecontinued)WhatIsPoetry?Unit4AppreciationofPoetryJohnKeatsTextASupplementaryinformationHispoemsaremarkedbyvividimagery,sensuousappeal,andanattempttoexpressaphilosophythroughclassicallegend.In1819,JohnKeatscomposedsixodesinashortperiodoftimethathavebecomesomeofhismostfamousworks.Thefirstfivepoemswerewrittenduringthespring,“OdeonaGrecianUrn”,“OdeonIndolence”,“OdeonMelancholy”,“OdetoaNightingale”,and“OdetoPsyche”.“ToAutumn”wascomposedinautumn.During1820Keatssufferedfromincreasinglyserioussymptomsoftuberculosis.Hediedofthediseaseon23February1821.Hisreputationgrewafterhisdeath.WhatIsPoetry?Unit4AppreciationofPoetryTask1/OverviewP68TextASuggestedanswerkeySuggestedanswer:Subtitle1:Poetryrecordsintensepersonalexperienceofaninventedspeakerratherthanthatofthepoethimself.Subtitle2:Apoemisintouchwithmoregeneralhumanexperience.Subtitle3:Readingforthemessageisanunproductiveandmisleadingapproachtopoetry.Unit4AppreciationofPoetryTask2/PointsfordiscussionP68TextASuggestedanswerkeySuggestedanswertoQ1:ManyreadershavesoughttoexplainthepoembyreferringtoKeats’biography.However,theauthorsofTextAwantthereadertopayattentiontothepoemitselfratherthantrytoassociateitwiththeinnerexperienceandlifeofKeats.Unit4AppreciationofPoetryTask2/PointsfordiscussionP68TextASuggestedanswerkeySuggestedanswertoQ2:Poemsmaynotresemblereallifeineverydetail,buttheygiveinsightintosomethingverygeneral,forexample,humannatureandgeneralprinciplesinhumanexperience.Unit4AppreciationofPoetryTask2/PointsfordiscussionP68TextASuggestedanswerkeySuggestedanswertoQ3:Poemsmayconveycertainmessage.ButtheauthorsofTextAwanttostressthatpayingtoomuchattentiontotheunderlyingmessagecanbeunproductiveandmisleading,becausesendingamessageisbynomeansthemajorfunctionofapoemandamessagecouldhavebeenconveyedinamuchmorestraightforwardway.Apoemhasitsintrinsicbeautyandattractions.Unit4AppreciationofPoetry–Classroomactivities–Supplementaryinformation–SuggestedanswerkeyUnit4AppreciationofPoetry•TextBImages:SimileandMetaphorUnit4AppreciationofPoetryImages:SimileandMetaphorTextBClassroomactivities1.TextBAnalysis1)GiveabriefintroductiontoWilliamWordsworth.2)Readaloudthepoem“Iwanderedlonelyasacloud”andtalkaboutyourimpressionofthepoem.3)DefinethetermssimileandmetaphorandthendiscussthequestionsinTask2/CriticalReadingandThinking/TextB.Unit4AppreciationofPoetryTextBClassroomactivities2.ResearchingWorkinpairstosharewhatyouhaveachievedwiththetaskinResearching/TextB.Usethesentencepatternsonthenextpageinyourdiscussion:Images:SimileandMetaphorUnit4AppreciationofPoetryTextBSupplementaryinformation•Compare…to…•Thecomparisonseemstodowith…•…isdefinitelylikenedto…•Thewordnormallyappliesto…,buthereitappliesto…•Compareitselfto…•…seemstoparallel…•…pickup/strengthentheearliercomparisonImages:SimileandMetaphorUnit4AppreciationofPoetryWilliamWordsworthTextBSupplementaryinformationWilliamWordsworth(1770-1850)wasafamousBritishpoet.HisLyricalBallads(1798),writtenwithSamuelTaylorColeridge,helpedlaunchtheEnglishRomanticMovement.HiscontributiontotheMovementwasthreefold.First,inhispoemsandessays,heexpressedanewattitudetowardnature--theorganicrelationbetweenmanandthenaturalworld.Second,forWordsworth,writingapoemcouldbeaprocessofexploringoneselfandunderstandinghumannature(includinghisownnature).Third,heplacedpoetryatthecentreofhumanexperience.Images:SimileandMetaphorUnit4AppreciationofPoetryImageryTextBSupplementaryinformationImageryreferstothepicturesevokedinapoem,whichweperceivewithourmind'seyes,ears,nose,tongue,skin.Imagerycanmakethemeaningofapoemstrongerandclearer.Inordertobuildupimages,thepoetoftenmakesuseofpoeticlanguage,wordsofsound,colorandtouch,figuresofspeech,anddetailsappealingtothereader’ssenses.Images:SimileandMetaphorUnit4AppreciationofPoetrySimileandmetaphorTextBSupplementaryinformationAsimileisafigureofspeechthatdirectlycomparestwodifferentthings,usuallybyemployingthewordslikeoras.Similesarewidelyusedinliteraturefortheirexpressivenature.Ametaphorisafigureofspeechinwhichawordorphrasethatordinarilydesignatesonethingisusedtode