大学英语英国文学lecture1 English Poetry.ppt

2) Spenserian Sonnet Edmund Spenser For loe my love doth in her selfe containe b All this world’s riches that may farre be found. c If saphyres, loe her eyes be saphyres plaine: b If rubies, loe her lips be rubies sound; c 3 quatrains + a couplet If pearls, her teeth be pearls both pure and round; c If yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; d If gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; c If silver, her fair hands are silver sheene. d But that which fairest is, but few behold: e Her mind, adorned with vertues manifold. e Ye tradefull merchants, that with weary toyle a Do seeke nost pretious things to make your gain, b And both the Indians of their treasures spoile, a For loe my love doth in her selfe containe b 3) Shakespearian Sonnet Shakespear Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; d And every fair from fair sometime declines , c By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d. d 3 quatrains + a couplet But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, f Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, e When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. f So long as man can breathe or eyes can see, g So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, a And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. b 1. What is po