实践主题Topic：American Poetry

Do some research on American poetry, read other poems compared to these three.

实践目标Objective of the practice

1) To get familiar with the American Poetry.

2) To be able to put the appreciation skill into personal practice.

实践任务Tasks

1) Discuss and make comments on different poets with partners.

2) Talk about different types of American poems compared to these three poems we have learned in this chapter.

实践要求Requirements

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a short paragraph.

Sample

In a Station of the Metro was published in 1913, one year after Pound’s experience in an underground metro station in Paris in 1912. After a rainfall, Pound sensed the heavy and damp air and the sweat and mildew smell in the dark station, as well as the indifference between individuals. All these left him depressed and suffocated. In his eyes, the deathly darkness pervaded the city, the tunnel, the tube, the platform and the people’s spirits.

In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

译文：

在地铁站内

人群中这些面孔幽灵般呈现；

湿漉漉的黑枝条上朵朵花瓣。