Unit5Poems(Lesson5)

Learningobjectives:Bytheendoftheclass,you’llbeableto1.appreciatepoemsthroughfivekeydimensions;2.followthe“fivesteps”recommendedtocreateyourownpoems.Tounderstandapoem,whataspectsdoweneedtofocuson?

Lead-in：Triptoalandofpoems2Images4Rhetoricaldevices3Rhymingwords1SubjectAroutetounderstandapoemfeelings&

emotionsReading:AppreciatepoemsrepetitionalliterationrepetitionmetaphorrepetitionmetaphorsimileWriteashortessay

ThepoemWindonthehillconsistsoftwentylines.WhenIreadthepoem,Inoticethatthelastwordsofline2andline4rhyme--“knows”and“goes”.Thelastwordsinlines6and8alsorhyme--“can”and“ran”.Similarly,“kite”and“night”rhyme.“Goes”and“knows”rhyme.ThemomentIreadthepoem,IfeelasifIwerethepoet,standingonthetopofthehill.Icannottellwherethewindcomesfromandgoes.ButthemomentIseethekiteblowwiththewind,Iknowthepresenceofwindandwhereitgoes.Butwhereitcomesfromremainsadoubt.Ithinkthepoetistryingtoreflectonwherehecomesfromandwherehewillgo.

Ilearntanewword“string”,whichmeansathinrope.

ThepoemAMatchbyA.C.Swinburneisshortwithmerely8lines.Therearesomerhymingwords:“is”and“closes”,“together”and“weather”,“grief”and“leaf”.Whilereadingthepoem,differentimagesspringupfromthepoem.Forexample,theleafandtheroseloveandsupporteachotherinagreeableandbadweather,inbrownfieldsorflowerfulstreets.Ithinkthepoetistryingtoconveyhisdeterminationinloveandhisbelovedoneinwhatevercircumstances.Ilearnt“close”whichmeansastreetthatisclosedatoneendand“grief”whichistheoppositeofpleasure.

Sonnet18

writtenbyWilliamShakespeareShallIcomparetheetoasummer'sday?Thouartmorelovelyandmoretemperate:RoughwindsdoshakethedarlingbudsofMay,Andsummer'sleasehathalltooshortadate:Sometimetoohottheeyeofheavenshines,Andoftenishisgoldcomplexiondimm'd;Andeveryfairfromfairsometimedeclines,Bychanceornature'schangingcourseuntrimm'dButthyeternalsummershallnotfadeNorlosepossessionofthatfairthouowest;NorshallDeathbragthouwander'stinhisshade,Whenineternallinestotimethougrowest:Solongasmencanbreatheoreyescansee,Solonglivesthisandthisgiveslifetothee.ababcdcdefefggreadbyTomHiddlestonSonnet

我能否將你比作夏天？

你比夏天更美麗溫婉。

狂風將五月的蓓蕾凋殘，

夏日的勾留何其短暫。

休戀那麗日當空，

轉眼會云霧迷蒙。

休嘆那百花飄零，

催折于無常的天命。

唯有你永恒的夏日常新，

你的美貌亦毫發無損。

死神也無緣將你幽禁，

你在我永恒的詩中長存。

只要世間尚有人吟誦我的詩篇，

這詩就將不朽，永葆你的芳顏。

words&phrasestitlewrite&polishpicturethemeWriteapoemchildhoodflowerbirdsgrandmapuppykittybloomingblossomssingingbirdshumminggrandmapuppy&homelesskitty...Memory

Memory

Blossomsinthegardenwereblooming.Birdsinthetreeweresinging.Grandmahummedanoldsonglovingly.WhileIalwayssmiledhappily.SometimesIchasedapuppy,orfedahomelesskitty.Layonthegrassandwatchedtheclouds,Butitwasneverbecauseoftiredness.（授課教師的學生

陳向明作，陳向明朗誦）

SonnetEquablejog-trotoffeelingissubstituted,forviolentupsanddownsofpassion,Ourhopesarerestrainedaswegrowold,Withtimequietingintensionandapprehension.Backtotheolddayswehadlittlehomework,Wechasedeachotherwithtwinklingeyes,Nevereverdidwehatehideandseek,Whichbathedusinlaughterandtears.Memoriesofpastoftenstrikemyheart,Thejoyissomethingfrozeninphoto,Purityofsoulsenclosedinchildhood,Innocenceofsmilesseemtosaytiamo,Hascruelrealityleftburdenuponourmind?Willtherapturesandjoysforeverbeleftbehind?

（授課教師的學生

應越、蘭嘯雨、琚方烜作，李墨芊朗誦）

Createyourpoem.Workingroups,shareandappreciatepoems.Polishthepoemwiththehelpofgroupmembers.words&phrasestitlewrite&polishpicturethemeWrite,share&polishpoems

YesSo-soNoDoyouknowhowtounderstandapoemviadifferentdimensions?

Can