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课件网) Unit 8 Literature Lesson 2 Poetry Warming-up What’s your favourite poem, either in English or Chinese Read it aloud and say why you like it. Lead-in poetic language alliteration onomatopoeia simile metaphor imagery allusion What typical language features do you often find in poems exaggeration Pre-listening Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (1879-1963) Read the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. Try to work out the missing words. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village _____; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. While-listening Listen to the poem and check the answers. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some _____. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the _____. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I _____. though year mistake sleep While-listening Work in groups and try to explain the meaning of the poem in your own words. While-listening Why did the writer stop by the woods He wanted to watch the snow falling in the woods. 2 Why did the horse give the harness bells a shake The horse was unsure why they had stopped without a barn nearby. 3 Why couldn’t the writer stay longer in the woods He needed to keep going on his journey and he had more miles left to travel. Listen to the poem and answer the questions. Post-listening The repetition in the last lines shows how sad the speaker feels. He cannot stop and must continue on his long journey. Work in groups and discuss what the effect of the repetition is in the last lines of the poem. And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. The rhythm is iambic tetrameter. Post-listening How many syllables are there in each line What’s the rhythm Read the poem carefully and answer the questions. There are 8 syllables in each line. 抑扬格四音步 Post-listening The iambic nature of these lines is what makes the poem sounds like a song. Stressed syllables are in bold. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. 雪夜林畔小驻 马儿摇响身上的串铃， 问我这地方该不该停； 此外只有轻风拂雪片， 再也听不见其他声音。 森林又暗又深真可羡， 但是我已经有约在先， 还要赶多少路才安眠， 还要赶多少路才安眠。 余光中 The Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine, And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line, Along the margin of a bay; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their he ... ...
