【正文】 py, sal ty Teasi ng, shouti ng, l aughi ng Drying, droopi ng, dreadi ng Fri end and enem y too Week i n, week out Mi ne Endless (F) A fal l en bl ossom (G) Snow havi ng m elted Is ing back to the branch. The whol e vi l age i s bri m ful Look, a butterfl y! Of happy chi l dren. (by Mori take) (by Isa) H ai ku i s a Japanese form of poetry that is m ade up of 17 syl l abl es. It i s not a tradi ti onal form of Engli sh poetry, but i s very popul ar wi th Engl i sh wri ters. It i s easy to wri te and, li ke the ci nquai n, can give a cl ear pi cture and create a special feeli ng using the mi ni mum of words. The two hai ku poem s (F and G ) above are transl ati ons from the Japanese. Di d you know that Engl ish speakers al so enjoy other form s of Asi an poetry – Tang poem s from Chi na i n parti cul ar? A l ot of Tang poetry has been transl ated i nto Engli sh. This Tang poem (H ) i s a transl ati on from the Chi nese. With so many di fferent forms of poetry to choose from , students m ay eventual y want to wri te poem s of thei r own. It i s easier than you m i ght thi nk and certai nl y worth a try. Where she awai ts her husband O n and on the river fl ows. N ever looki ng back, Transform ed i nto stone. Day by day upon the m ountai n top, wind and rain revol ve. Shoul d the travel er return, thi s Stone woul d utter speech. (by Wang Ji an) I’VE SAVED TH E SUMMER I’ve saved the summ er And I give i t al to you To hol d on winter mornings When the snow i s new. I’ve saved som e sunlight If you should ever ned A place away from darkness Where your m ind can feed. And for mysel f I’ve kept your sm il e When you were but nieen, Til l you’re older you’l l not know What brave young smil es can mean. I know no answers To hel p you on your way The answers l ie som ewhere At the botom of the but wi thout the Im pressioni sts, m any of these pai nti ng styl es mi ght not exist. O n the one hand, som e m odern art i s abstract。but wi thout the Im pressi oni sts, many of these pai nti ng styl es mi ght not exi st. O n the one hand, som e m odern art i s abstract。 that i s, the pai nter does not attem pt to pai nt objects as we see them wi th our eyes, but i nstead concentrates on certain quali ti es of the object, using col or, l ine and shape to represent them . O n the other hand, som e pai nti ngs of m odern art are so reali sti c that they l ook li ke photographs. These styl es are so di fferent. Who can predi ct what pai nti ng styl es there wil l be i n the future? TH E BEST OF MANH ATTAN’S ART GALLERIES The Fri ck Col ecti on (5th Avenue and E. 70th Street) Many art l overs woul d rather vi si t this sm al l art gal l ery than any other i n N ew York. H enry Cl ay Fri ck, a rich N ew Yorker, died i n 1919, l eavi ng hi s house, furni ture and art col l ecti on to the Am eri can peopl e. Fri ck had a preference for pertwenti eth century Western painti ngs, and these are wel lrepresented in this excel ent col ecti on. You can al so explore Fri ck’s beautiful hom e and garden whi ch are wel l worth a visi t. Guggenheim Museum (5th Avenue and 88th Street) Thi s museum owns 5,000 superb m odern pai ntings, scul ptures and drawi ngs. These art works are not al l displayed at the sam e time. The exhibi ti on i s always changing. It wi l appeal to those who love Im pressioni st and PostImpressi onist paintings. The Guggenheim Museum buil ding i s also worl dfam ous. When you wal k into the gal lery, you feel as if you were inside a fragile, whi te seashel l. The best way to see the pai nti ngs is to start from the top floor and wal k down to the bottom . There are no stai rs, just a ci rcul ar path. The museum al so has an excel ent restaurant. Metropoli tan Museum of Art (5 th Avenue and 82nd Street) The reputation of this m useum li es in the vari ety of i ts art col lection. Thi s covers m ore than 5,000 years of civil ization from many parts of the worl d, i ncluding America, Europe, Chi na, Egypt, other African countri es and South Am eri ca. The museum displays m ore than just the vi sual deli ghts of art. It introduces you to anci ent ways of l iving. You can vi si t an Egyptian tem pl e, a fragrant Ming garden, a typical room i n an 18th century French house and many other speci al exhibiti ons. Museum of Modern Art ( 53rd Street. Between 5th and 6th Avenues) It i s amazing that so many great works of art from the l ate 19th century to the 21st century are housed in the same m useum. The col lection of Western art i ncl udes paintings by such famous arti sts as Mo, Van Gogh, Pi caso and Matisse. A few words of warning: the admi ssion price is not cheap and the m useum i s often very crowded. Whi tney Museum of Am eri can Art (945 Madi son Avenue, near 75th Street) The Whi tney hol ds an excel l ent col ecti on of contem porary Am eri can pai nti ng and scul pture. There are no perm anent di splays i n thi s m useum and exhi biti ons change al the ti m e. Every two years, the Whi tney hol ds a speci al exhi biti on of new art by l i vi ng arti sts. The m useum al so shows vi deos and fi lm s by contem porary vi deo arti sts. Unit 2 A FEW SIMPLE FORMS OF ENGLISH POEMS There are vari ous reasons why peopl e wri te poetry. Some poem s tel l a story or descri be som ethi ng in a way that wi l gi ve the reader a strong i m pressi on. O thers try to convey certain em oti ons. Poets use m any di fferent form s of poetry to express themsel ves. In thi s text, however, we wil l l ook at a few of the sim pl er form s. Som e of the fi rst poetry a young chil d l earns i n Engli sh i