Part One Entrée to English Poetry
Ⅰ.What Is Poetry
Ⅱ.The Function of Poetry
Ⅲ.Major Types of Poetry
1.Narrative Poetry
2.Lyric Poetry
3.Dramatic Poetry
Ⅳ.Elements of Poetry
1.Rhyme
2.Metre
3.Foot
4.Metrical Pattern
5.Stanza
6.Image
7.Symbol
8.Figures of Speech
9.Speaker and Tone
10.Diction
11.Subjeet Matter and Theme
Ⅴ.How to Read a Poem
1.Read a Poem More Than Once
2.Keep a Dictionary Nearby and Use It
3.Read So As to Hear the Sounds of the Words in Your Mind
4.Pay Full Attention to What the Poem Is Saying
5.Practice Reading Poems Aloud
Part Two British Poetry
1.Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 34
Sonnet 75
2.Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
3.William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 73
To Be,or Not to Be——That Is the Question
All the World Is a Stage
4.Ben Jonson
Song:To Celia
5.John Donne
A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning
The Flea
from Holy Sonnets
6.Robert Herrick
To the Virgins.to Make Much of Time
7.George Herbert
Virtue
Easter Wings
8.John Milton
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint