高二英语教案：Unit 2Poems

The next period that produced a great number of fine poets was the nineteenth century.Greatly loved in China are the English Romantic poets.John Keats died at a very young age in 1821，while William Wordsworth，who spent much of his time in his English Lake District，lived to the age of the 80 and died in 1850.The nature poems by William Wordsworth，George Gordon Byron's Isles of Greece and the sonnets and long poems by John Keats have long been favorites.The style in their poems has often led to comparisons with poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.

Finally，modern poets have their special attraction because they stand closest to us both in the language and images they use.Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost.

More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English.Translation can be good，but being able to read English gives you much choice.Besides，no matter how well a poet is translated，something of the spirit of the original work is lost.Reading poetry in English also opens the door to finding new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese.

Ⅱ.What is free verse?

Free verse is a modern form of poetry which does not follow any specific rhyme or metrical scheme，although it does not completely abandon the basic poetic precepts of heightened language and songs.Free verse poetry is said to have been popularized by such notable poets as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson during the late 19th century，although earlier poets like the mystic William Blake were beginning to pull away from the restrictions of the formal poetry of their day.Whitman's signature collection，Leaves of Grass，is almost entirely composed of free verse poetry.Dickinson，however，still wrote much of her poetry according to the metrics and rhyme of a favored hymn composer.

The free verse style of poetry soon became popular with rebellious young poets such as the Frenchman Artur Rimbaud(阿图尔·兰波)，who wrote many of his best free verse poems before the age of 18.Other poets embraced free verse poetry as a way to express raw emotions or unbridled passion not generally found in the formal poetry of their time.Whitman himself referred to this artistic awakening as the great YAWP，a call for all artists to break free of social conventions and live life to its fullest.

Free verse poetry continued to evolve throughout the 20th century，beginning with poets such as Carl Sandburg(卡尔·桑博格)and Robert Frost(罗伯特·弗罗斯特)，both of whom were equally comfortable with formal and free verse poetry.Perhaps the most admired free verse poet was the expatriate Ezra Pound，who became a mentor to many of the 20th century's most famous authors and poets.

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