1.Whatispoetry?AliteraryformmarkedwithstanzasWritteninlinesRichimageryGreatartisticappealBeautifulharmonyCompressedcontentAnIntroductiontoEnglishPoetry
2.DefinitionofpoetryPoetryisaliterarygenrethatcommunicatesexperienceinthemostcondensedform.Poetryisamultidimensionallanguage:anintellectualdimension,anemotionald,asensuousd,andanimaginatived.Thesedimensionsworktogethertopassexperiencetothereader.Poetrytriestosaythemostinthefewestpossiblewords.Poetrybeginsindelight,andendsinwisdom.—RobertFrostHewhodrawsnobledelightsfromthesentimentsofpoetryisatruepoet,thoughhehasneverwrittenalineinallhislife.—GeorgeSand
3.Howtoanalyzepoetry?Asidefromthebasicdemandthatpoetrysayssomething,poetryischaracterizedbythefollowingelements:amusicaleffectcreatedbyrhythmandsound;apreciseandfreshimagery;multiplelevelsofinterpretationssuggestedbytheconnotationsofthewordsandbyallusions.
Danti:DivineComedy《神曲》Milton:ParadiseLost《失乐园》3)didacticpoem（说理诗）humorouspoem（幽默诗）burlesque（滑稽诗）parody（模仿诗）2)NarrativePoems（叙事诗）1)LyricalPoems（抒情诗）4.KindsofPoetryA.Intermsofcontent:ode（颂诗）elegy（悼念诗）idyll（田园诗）lovepoem（爱情诗）songs（韵文)ballads（民谣）Epics(史诗)(heroicpoems),DramaticPoems（戏剧诗：usu.indialogue;inblankverse）,Metricaltale(故事诗)，ballads（民谣）
1)MetricalPoems（格律诗）KindsofPoetryB.Intermsofmetre:RegularRhyme;RegularRhythm;DefiniteNumberofLinesFreeVerse（自由诗）：不受格律、音韵的约束不讲求形式上的整齐或有规则，不寻求语言上的平衡、华美或高雅，以充分地、尽情地表达思想为主要目的。IrregularRhymeandRhythm;IrregularNumberofLinesBlankVerse（无韵诗）：不押韵，但有音步和格律的限制;传统的无韵诗的节奏是抑扬格五音步，各节长短不一，因而有“诗段”这个说法。WithoutRhyme;WithRhythm
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