【正文】 s masterpiece, written in the form of a conversation between More and a returned sailor. The name Utopia es from two Greek 。 poet. Spenser’s fame in English literature is chiefly based upon his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. In 1579, he wrote The Shepherd’s Calendar, a pastoral poem in twelve books, one for each month of the year. Writing Features of “ The Faerie Queene” a. The long poem is written in the form of allegory. It has sweet melody and its lines are very musical. b. Spenser invented a new verse form for this poem. The verse form has been called Spenserian Stanza since his day. Each stanza has nine lines, each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter form, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is abab bcbc c. Proses in the Renaissance Period 1). Thomas More (14771535) Thomas More39。 。 教學(xué)方法： 教師講授、戲劇表演、學(xué)生報(bào)告及課堂討論相結(jié)合。 教學(xué)重點(diǎn)： 1. 文藝復(fù)興及人文思想對(duì)英國(guó)文學(xué)的影響； 2. 文藝復(fù)興時(shí)期英國(guó)文學(xué)的總體特征，詩歌、戲劇及散文的發(fā)展?fàn)顩r； 3. 莎士比亞的主要作品及創(chuàng)作特點(diǎn)，《哈姆雷特》、《威尼斯商人》及十四行詩分析。 longer words contain one stressed syllable and two or more unstressed syllables. Unstressed syllables are marked with a curve “︶ ” and stressed, with a dash “ — ” . . above suffer around standing terrible disaster political procession In a line of poetry, when the stressed and unstressed syllables of all the words are arranged in a definite order, the line will rise and fall in a musical way. And this musical flow, or the rise and fall of language in poetry, is called “rhythm”. . My heart is like a singing bird. II. foot(音步 ) ? 1. definition: foot is the unit of rhythm and contains two or three syllables, one of which is stressed. ? 2. 4 kinds of foot: ? A. iambus(︶ — ): consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. . Appear, besides , attack , supply. ? B. Trochee(— ︶ ): consists of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. . holy, upper, failing ? C. anapaest(︶︶ — ):consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. . reappear, indistinct, inplete, on the hill ? D. dactyl(— ︶︶ ): consists of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. . messenger, merrily , property , accident III. meter(格律 ) ? 1. The meter of a line of poetry is determined by the kind of foot used and by the number of feet in a line. The longest poetical line contains 8 feet. ? Monometer 單音步詩行 , dimeter 二音步詩行 , trimeter 三音步詩行 , tetrameter 四音步詩行 , pentameter 五音步詩行 , hexameter 六音步詩行 , heptameter 七音步詩行 , octameter八音步詩行 （八步格） . ? A line of five iambic feet is an iambic pentameter line. ? A line of six dactylic feet is a dactylic hexameter line. ? . but every eye was fixed on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore ? Rime is a repetition of the same sound at the end of two or more lines. ? . day, may。s intention in bringing together a great variety of people and narrative materials to unite the diversity of the tales by allotting them to a diversity of tellers engaged in a mon endeavor, to set the tone for the storytelling, to make clear the plan for the tales, to motivate the telling of several of tales and to introduce the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage. Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, the pilgrims are a microcosm of 14thcentury English society. 3. The Tales ? A. There are all together 24 tales with the Knight‘ s tale at the beginning, the Parson’ s tale at the end, and the Clerk‘ s tale and others stretching in between. These tales represent nearly every variety of medieval stories at its best, which can be divided into different groups such as Romance, Fabliau （諷刺性寓言詩） , Saints’ Legends（到的沖高的人的傳奇） , Homilies（說教） , Moralities, Devotions and Marriage. ? B: story telling: 4. A Brief Analysis of the first stanza ? first eleven lines are a chant of wele to the Spring with its harmonious marriage between heaven and earth which mellows vegetations, pricks birds and stirs the heart of man with a renewing power of nature. Thus, the pilgrimage is treated as an event in the calendar of nature, an aspect of the general springtime surge of human energy which wakens man39。s work consists of three parts: The General Prologue, 24 tales, two of which left unfinished and separate prologues to each tale with links, ments, quarrels, etc. in between. ? Chaucer originally planned to have a group of 30 pilgrims with each to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and another two on the way back. So the total stories of the collection would be 120, some 20 stories more than Boccaccio39。s tale begins with the mysterious birth of Arthur and ends with his equally mysterious death. Ⅳ . William Langland ? 1. Introduction ? William Langland was born in the western midland of the country, living from about 1330 to about 1400. In 1362, he began his famous poem Piers the Plowman , which had been repeatedly revised, and of which three texts have been left to us. It was written in the old alliterative verse: each line contained three alliterated words, two of which were placed in the first half, and the third in the second half. ? 2. Piers the Plowman The poem describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed. ? It is written in the form of a dream vision. ? The poem is also an allegory which uses symbolism to relate truth. ? The poet uses indignant satire in his description of social abuses caused by the corruption prevailing among the ruling classes, ecclesiastical and secular. ? The poem is written in alliteration. Geoffrey Chaucer Ⅰ . Life ? Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London around 1340. ? At the age of 17, he served as a page to Elizabeth . ? At the age of 19, he served with the English army in France and married to Philippa was at the age of 26. ? Between the year of 1372 and 1378 ,