Sonnet18
Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair some-time declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Rhyme scheme:the Shakespearean or English sonnet:abab cdcd efef gg
莎士比亚体十四行诗：Shakespearean sonnet
威廉~莎士比亚：William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
这首诗的格律是抑扬五音步，每行有是个音节，从是个结尾的双偶句来看，其韵式为abab cdcd efef gg.每行的结尾都构成押韵。
该诗表达了人文主义主题思想：爱征服一切，美常驻人间。
莎士比亚的诗歌歌颂和肯定了人的价值和力量，表扬和赞颂了人高贵的尊严和理性用深刻的语言阐释了人文主义的思想。
文艺复兴：
What are the feature of the Renaissance in England?
①．English culture was revitalize not so much directly by the classics as by contemporary Europeans under the influence of the classics
②．England as an insular country followed a course of social and political history which was to a great extend independent of the course of history else where inn Europe
③．Owing to the great genius of the 14th century poet chawer ,the native literature was sufficiently vigorous and experienced in assimilating for foreign influences without being subjected by them.
④.English Renaissance literature is primarily artistic,rather than philosophical and scholarly
⑤.the Renaissance coincided with the reformation in English
Despite of different views,Shakespeare dramatic career is generally divided into 4period,what are they?
1.the first period:1590-1594 apprenticeship
2.:1595-1600.his mature period,mainly a period of …great comedies”and mature historical plays
3.1601-1607:mainly the period of “great tragedies”and “dark comedies”
4.1608-1612:a period of romantic drama
The Canterbury Tales:was a collection of short stories arranged on a framework
Why was Chaucer great:
①father of English poetry
②.the first great poet who wrote in English③.the first important realistic writer in English literature
④the messenger of Renaissance
诗歌常识：
Heroic couplet:a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic抑扬格的pentameter五音步诗行and rhyme in pairs。
Couplet：偶句在连续诗中作押韵格式 a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse.simplest rhyme scheme（rhyme scheme：
Stanza：诗节：is one of the parts into which a poem is divided
Meter:the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Iamb 抑扬格:a metrical(有韵律的）foot consisting of two syllables,a short one followed by a long one.
Alliteration:押头韵单词开头辅音相同eg：safe and sound，night and knife
Some mammals are clammy
Assonance 押腹韵the rain is spain stays mainly in the plain
Rhyme paper:行末韵
1.perfect rhyme完全韵（以重读元音为中心，后同前不同）
eg：lake-fake（T) late-fake（F) sober-october(F) main-remain(F)dimmed-untrimmed(T) garfiled-yield(F)own-grown(T) blow-grow(T)
Imperfect rhyme不完全韵（看起来押韵）
在乔叟之前有epic史诗（Beowulf），popular ballads.民谣（robin hood ）romance骑士传奇（第一部以英文完成的骑士传奇：亚瑟王之死。
骑士传奇代表：sir grawain and the green knight ）
How to read English poems:
1.rhyme, rhythm and meter
2.Content and theme
nguage and writing skills
没有中国的印刷术就没有文艺复兴。
