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M8 U1 Project
Reciting a poem
Lead in
A tranquil Night
translated by Xu Yuanchong
Before my bed a pool of light,
I wonder if it’s frost aground.
Looking up, I find the moon bright,
Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.
rhyme
imagery
Good mornig, class. Let's first appreciate some Chinese poems and identify its styles. Let's read it.
Light rhymes with bright. Aground rhymes with drowned. These are called rhymes. Moonlight triggers his homesickness. Here moon is a imagery.
Who wrote it? LiBai. One of the most famous romantic poets in ancient China.
William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Tagore
Li Bai; Wang Wei, Li Shangyin,Xu Zhimo
WHAT romantic poets are you familiar with?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate?
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may.
Based on your experience, which theme
is often explored by Romantic poets?
Love, Freedom, Nature, BEAUTY
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