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Unit 5 POEMS
Reading and Thinking
In this class, you will
1. learn the characteristics of English poetry.
2. explore the characteristics of different forms of poems
and learn to appreciate these poems.
3. analyze and appreciate the poem The Road Not Taken.
Learning Objectives
What images come to your mind when you are listening
2. What should we pay attention to
while appreciating a poem
Forest, woods, trees, roads...
Rhyme, emotion, theme...
Listen to a poem and answer:
A Few Simple Forms of English Poems
1. How many parts can the passage be divided into
2. How many types of English poems are mentioned
Part 1(1)
Part 2(2-5)
Part 3(6)
The topic of the passage.
Different forms of poetry and their characteristics.
Encouragement for readers to write poems.
Five. Nursery rhyme, List poem, Cinquain, Haiku, Tang poem.
Read the article and answer:
Read the article and answer:
What are the important points mentioned in Paragraph 1
The reasons for composing poetry
The characteristics
economical use of words
descriptive and vivid language
integrated imagery
literary devices
arrangement of words
lines
rhymes
rhythm
Read Part 2 and summarize the characteristics of each form
Different forms Characteristics
Nursery rhyme
List poems
Cinquain
Haiku
Tang poem
concrete but creative language
list of things, people, ideas or descriptions of a particular theme
17 syllables
simple forms
structured
flexible line length
repeated phrases for patterns and rhythm
five lines
three lines containing 5,7 and 5 syllables
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word,
Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.
If that mockingbird won’t sing,
Papa’s gonna buy you a diamond ring.
If that diamond ring turns to brass,
Papa’s gonna buy you a looking glass.
If that looking-glass gets broke,
Papa’s gonna buy you a billy goat.
...
rhyming words
repetition
rhythm
Read and appreciate Nursery rhyme
The language is ___________but _____________
They _________, have strong _________and much ___________
They may not make sense and even seem ______________, but are _____ to learn and recite.
Nursery rhyme
concrete
imaginative
rhyme
rhythm
repetition
contradictory
easy
Hundreds of stars in the deep blue sky,
Hundreds of shells on the shore together,
Hundresds of birds that go singing by,
Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather,
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the world over.
rhyming words
repetition
Read and appreciate List poems
Life can be good,
Life can be bad,
Life is mostly cheerful
but sometimes sad
Life can be dreams,
Life can be great thoughts
Life can mean a person
Sitting in court.
Does it have three Rs
rhyme,rhythm,repetition
Read and appreciate List poems
List poems
Have a _________ line length and __________ phrases which give both a pattern and a _________ to the poem.
Some _______ while others don’t.
flexible
repeated
rhythm
rhyme
Brother
Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting, laughing
Friend and enemy too
Mine
Brothers get along well
with each other.
Read and appreciate Cinquain
What images and mood does the Cinquain convey
Brother
Beautiful ,athletic
Teasing, shouting ,laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
a name (subject of the poem)
two adjs ( describe the subject)
three verbs (describe actions)
four words (opinions or feelings)
one word to repeat the subject
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
5
7
5
17 syllables
metaphor
The beauty of nature.
Read and appreciate Haiku
Where she awaits her husband,
On and on the river flows.
Never looking back,
Transformed into stone.
Dad by day upon the mountain top,
wind and rain revolve.
Should the journey return,
this stone would utter speech.
parallel sentence
inverted sentence
loneliness, love, sorrow...
Read and appreciate Tang Poem
Extended reading
Extended reading
The Road Not Taken
Rhyming words
Figure of speech
Imagery
Theme & Emotion
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
end rhyme
(尾韵)
a
b
a
a
b
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
alliteration
(头韵)
internal rhyme
(间韵/腹韵)
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travlled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The choice in life.
Theme & Emotion
We have to refer to the background information.
Robert Frost is one of the greatest American poets. However, he faced much grief in his life, losing his father, mother and sister at early ages. He had six children, but only two survived him.
Frost wrote the poem after a trait of his friend, who would express regret about the path they hadn’t taken. Frost mocked him for it and wrote the poem as somewhat of a joke.
Theme & Emotion
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travlled by,
And that has made all the difference.
He sighed for not being able to choose both roads.
Although he was hesitant, he still chose the one less travlled by.
Life choice is inevitable. and one cannot waste one’s life worrying about having not taken another path. People should make the best decision based on what they know and then take the path wholeheartedly without looking back or wasting time regretting what life might have been.
Theme & Emotion
Reflecting and summarizing
Bring you joy and fun;
Enlighten you in the deep heart;
Appreciate the beautiful things in life;
Use a new perspective to observe the world;
Teach you to listen to your inner voice;
Inspire you to sing for the beauty of life;
Forget the unhappy things;
Understand the importance of human bonds;
Love to express your emotions in the poems.
Poems are
beautiful!
Home work:
Read and review the poems in the article.
Reread and appreciate The Road Not Taken.
3. Find out and appreciate more English poems of
different forms .
Thank you!
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