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课件网) Unit 8 Literature Reading Club By the end of this period, students will be able to: understand the romanticism and representatives in poetry. appreciate famous scenes in the classic drama Hamlet. guess the meaning and usage of words in a specific context. Learning objectives Reading Club 1 ROMANTICISM IN POETRY Underline the following sentences on your textbook and try to guess the meaning of the highlighted words. 1. These emotional works celebrated the beauty of nature and true human emotions. 2. Its poems used language and situations from real life,and celebrated nature in a new way. 3. His free,vivid and exaggerated style of poetry is in many ways ... 4. As with Wordsworth and his contemporaries, Li Bai's poems ... Pre-reading Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century in Europe. Romantic emotions were expressed in poems,stories,art and music.These emotional works celebrated the beauty of nature and true human emotions. 浪漫主义 emotion n 情感， 情绪 emotional adj 激起感情的， 有感染力的 celebrate the beauty of ...歌颂……的美 While-reading William Wordsworth (1770-1850)（威廉. 华兹华斯） William Wordsworth was a famous Romantic poet in England.in fact, his name is synonymous with the English Romantic Movement. Wordsworth grew up in one of the most beautiful areas of England, which is called the Lake District. The countryside there is wild, natural and beautiful. Wordsworth’s childhood greatly influenced his later poetry. be synonymous with ...等同于…… synonymous adj 等同于……的 As an adult, Wordsworth worked together with the fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge（塞谬尔·泰勒）. In 1798, they published a book of poetry called Lyrical Ballads. This book announced the beginning of the English Romantic Movement. Its poems used language and situations from real life, and celebrated nature in a new way. The book was a great change from the poetry of the past. 《抒情歌谣集》 V. 发布；出版 V. 宣布 Li Bai(701-762) Romanticism has been a part of human creative expression for centuries all over the world. Li Bai, one of China’s greatest poets, wrote poetry during the Tang Dynasty, around a thousand years before Wordsworth. His free, vivid and exaggerated style of poetry is in many ways an early form of the Romantic Movement in 19th century Europe. As with Wordsworth and his contemporaries, Li Bai's poems were about beautiful natural scenes and the people who touched his heart. exaggeraated adj 夸张的 浪漫主义运动 touch one’s heart 打动某人的心 n. 同代人 As a boy, Li Bai lived in Sichuan with his family. At the age of 25,he began travelling around the country. He made friends with scholars and kept journals. His travels were the basis for his works of more than 2,000 poems, of which approximately 1,800 are still read today. scholar n 有学问的人 keep journals 写日记 be the basis for ...是……的基础 1. What was Romanticism How w ... ...
