Contents vi 英语诗歌赏析教程 A Course in English Poetry: Reading, Reacting, Writing 7 Figures of Speech 52 Fawziyya Abu Khalid: Butterfl ies 53 Nazik Al-Mala’ika: Elegy for a Woman of No Importance 56 8 Structure 59 Pablo Neruda: To the Foot from Its Child 59 9 Theme 64 Emily Dickinson: Crumbling Is Not an Instant’s Act 65 Part 3 Understanding Poetry 68 1 Qualifying a Group of Lines as Poetry68 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 68 Louis Zukofsky: I Walk in the Old Street 70 2 Active Reading Strategies73 3 The Experience of Poetry 74 Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays 74 4 The Interpretation of Poetry 76 Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 78 5 The Evaluation of Poetry 81 Judith Wright: Rainforest 83 Part 4 Poems for Further Reading86 Alexander Pushkin: If by Life You Were Deceived 86 Fedor Tyutchev: Silentium! 86 Sergei Yesenin: Scarlet Light of Sunset 88 Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen 89 William Wordsworth: To a Butterfl y 91 Léopold Sédar Senghor: Night of Sine 95 Fernando Pessoa: In the Terrible Night 97 Barbara Barnard: Disguises 100 Part 5 Writing About Poetry 102 vii Contents Unit Two Diction in Poetry Part 1 Word Choice and Word Order 104 1 Poetic Diction 104 2 Denotative and Connotative Meanings 104 Judith Ortiz Cofer: My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory 105 3 Levels of Diction 107 Margaret Atwood: The City Planners 108 Wanda Coleman: Sears Life 111 4 Word Choice 113 Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 114 5 Word Order 117 E E Cummings: Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 119 Part 2 Voice: Speaker and Tone 123 1 The Speaker in the Poem 123 Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? 123 William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper 124 William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow 126 Langston Hughes: Negro 129 2 The Tone of the Poem 131 Robert Frost: Fire and Ice 132 Ruth Fainlight: Flower Feet 133 Stephen Crane: War Is Kind 135 Part 3 Imagery and Figures of Speech 137 1 Imagery: Descriptive Language 137 John Keats: from The Eve of St Agnes 137 Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro 139 William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 141 Andrew Marvell: The Defi nition of Love 143 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark House 146 Suzanne Berger: The Meal 148 viii 英语诗歌赏析教程 A Course in English Poetry: Reading, Reacting, Writing 2 Imagery: Figurative Language 149 George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty 150 Langston Hughes: Harlem 153 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Constantly Risking Absurdity 154 Marge Piercy: The Secretary Chant 158 Thosmas Campion: There Is a Garden in Her Face 159 Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose 161 Linda Hogan: from The Truth Is 163 Carl Sandburg: Chicago 166 Part 4 Poems for Further Reading169 Bei Dao: A Bouquet 169 Christina Rossetti: from Goblin Market 170 William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 172 W H Auden: Their Lonely Betters 174 Sylvia Plath: Mirror 176 Sylvia Plath: Metaphors 178 Part 5 Writing About Poetry 180 Unit Three Themes in Poetry Part 1 Theme and Meaning 182 1 Determining a Poem’s Theme 182 Adrienne Rich: A Woman Mourned by Daughters 183 James Shirley: Death the Leveler 185 Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia 187 John Donne: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star 189 William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 193 2 Pathways to Meaning—Four Types of Irony 194 Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est 195 ix Contents Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 199 Elizabeth Bishop: One Art 201 Part 2 Symbol and Allegory 204 1 Symbolism 204 Anonymous: Psalm 23 205 William Blake: The Sick Rose 206 Robert Frost: For Once, Then, Something 208 2 Allegory 209 Christina Rossetti: Uphill 210 George Herbert: Virtue 211 Part 3 Allusion and Myth 213 1 Allusion 213 William Meredith: Dreams of Suicide 213 Eduardo Langagne: Discoveries 215 2 Myth 217 Countee Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel 217 Marilyn Hacker: Mythology 218 Part 4 Poems for Further Reading221 Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences 221 Paul Verlaine: Moonlight 224 Guillaume Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge 225 Edith S?dergran: Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones 228 William Blake: Ah, Sunfl ower 229 William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming 230 William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan 233 Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar 236 Part 5 Writing About Poetry 240 x 英语诗歌赏析教程 A Course in English Poetry: Reading, Reacting, Writing Unit Four Forms of Poetry (I) Part 1 Types of Poetry 242 1 Narrative Poetry 242 2 Lyric Poetry 243 John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn 244 Philip Larkin: Aubade 249 Elizabeth Alexander: Praise Song for the Day 253 John Ashbery: Vetiver 257 Ben Jonson: On My First Son 260 Part 2 Rhythm and Meter262 1 Metrical Patterns 262 Emily Dickinson: I Like to See It Lap the Miles— 264 Emily Brontё: The Night Is Darkening Round Me 266 Edward Lear: Calico Pie 268 2 Caesura and Line Breaks 271 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 272 John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 275 Theodore Roethke: My Papa’s Waltz 280 Part 3 Closed Form (I)283 1 Blank Verse 283 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses 284 2 The Couplet 289 Alexander Pope: from Epistle II of An Essay on Man 290 3 The Tercet 293 Matsuo Bashō: Haiku 293 Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 295 4 The Quatrain 300 Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 301 5 The Ballad Stanza 303 xi Contents Anonymous: Bonny Barbara Allan 303 6 The Common Measure307 Donald Hall: My Son, My Executioner 307 Part 4 Poems for Further Reading310 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To the Moon 310 Friedrich H?lderlin: The Neckar 313 Heinrich Heine: The Lorelei 316 Horace: To Licinius 318 Ben Jonson: To Heaven 321 William Butler Yeats: When You Are Old 323 Gabriela Mistral: Richness 325 Part 5 Writing About Poetry 327 Unit Five Forms of Poetry (II) Part 1 Closed Form (II)330 1 Rhyme Royal 330 Theodore Roethke: I Knew a Woman 330 2 Ottava Rima 333 William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium 334 3 The Spenserian Stanza 337 George Gordon, Lord Byron: Apostrophe to the Ocean 338 4 The Sestina 342 Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina 342 5 The Villanelle 345 Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 345 Part 2 Closed Form (III): The Sonnet 348 1 The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet 348 xii 英语诗歌赏析教程 A Course in English Poetry: Reading, Reacting, Writing Petrarch: Sonnet 90 (Laura) 349 2 The English or Shakespearean Sonnet 352 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 352 3 The Spenserian Sonnet 356 Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 30 356 Part 3 Open Form 359 1 Open Form and Poetic License 359 Leslie Marmon Silko: Prayer to the Pacifi c 362 2 Conventional Techniques in the Open Form Poem 365 Dudley Randall: A Poet Is Not a Jukebox 366 3 Walt Whitman’s Long-lasting Influence 370 Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself 371 Nazik al-Mala’ika: Love Song for Words 376 4 Prose Poetry 378 Shuntarō Tanikawa: A Personal Opinion About Gray 379 5 Visual Poetry 381 E E Cummings: Buffalo Bill’s 383 George Herbert: Easter Wings 385 Part 4 Poems for Further Reading387 Giacomo Leopardi: The Infi nite 387 Dino Campana: Genoa Woman 388 Salvatore Quasimodo: Only if Love Should Pierce You 390 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon 391 Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox 393 Marianne Moore: Poetry 396 Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California 398 Jaime Torres Bodet: The Window 401 Part 5 Writing About Poetry 403 Bibliography 404
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