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课件网) Unit 4 Exploring Literature Welcome to the Unit Lead in What do you think of the saying Do you agree with it Give example to support your ideas. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ——— Ezra Pound Lead in Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century; his contributions to modernist poetry were enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and modernist poets; developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe; and contributed to important literary movements such as Imagism and Vorticism. Lead in What does literature mean Writings that are valued as works of art, such as novels, plays, poetry. Read the excerpts of literature Classics can stand the test of time. Read the excerpts below from two famous works of literature and discuss the following questions. to continue to be important, respected, etc., for a long period of time. Read the excerpts of literature My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. --David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, Parallelism: the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc. Read the excerpts of literature You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it. -- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros What does the words in red refer to on earth Read the Excerpts Which of the excerpts makes you feel like reading on Why Think about: The themes, characters and writing techniques of the experts… Thank You
