课程简介（中英文）

课程名称（2 学分）诗歌与人生（Aspects of Life in Poetry）

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任课教师：唐根金

课程目标：
本课程希望实现的目标是，通过具体的作品解析和课堂讨论，再结合学生以往的文学经验或体验，
使其在阅读和感悟中充分体会到诗歌的魅力。具体而言，即希望帮助学生对英语诗歌形成一个较为全面的
认识，能够感受到英语诗歌所包含的语言、历史和文化等丰富内涵，并能够学会尝试从诗歌出发，观照自
己的人生，开启经典传承和人文关怀的新篇章。

课程内容：
1.导言：诗歌之于我们的重要性
2.诗歌与人生
3.诗歌与爱情
4.诗歌与政治
5.诗歌与战争
6.诗歌与死亡
7.诗歌与女性
8.诗歌与自然
9.诗歌与城市
10. 小结

教材或讲义或主要参考书：自编讲义
主要参考书如下：
1. Columbia History of American Poetry ， Jay Parini, Columbia University Press, Foreign
Language Teaching and Research Press 2005；
2. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, Fifth Edition, Kirszner & Mandell, Peking
University Press, 2006
3. Selected Readings in British and American Poetry, Tang Genjin, Shanghai University
Press, 2014;
4. The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction, M. L. Rosenthal, Foreign Language Teaching
and Research Press, 2004

Course Name: Aspects of Life in Poetry (2 Credit Points)

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Instructor(s): Tang Genjin

Objectives:
This course is designed to cater for the general education program of the university. Its ultimate goal is to help
with the enhancement of our students’ overall development, including the development of their intellectual
powers, of their aesthetic values, and of their global views. To serve this purpose, students will be assigned
numerous effective reading, discussion, and writing tasks. These in-class and out-class activities will be largely
conducted by the students themselves, under the guidance of the teacher, of course. Students, who will be divided
into small groups, and assigned research topics respectively, will be required to do a lot of research work. In the
meantime, perusal reading of the original texts is much emphasized in the course of the lectures. Students, after
taking this course, are expected to not only acquaint themselves with the basic principles of poetry, prosody and
poetry-reading-related strategies, but also foster the ability to derive intellectual and cultural inspirational forces
from poetry, and thus becoming more able and capable as the young of the new century.

Contents:
Lecture I. Introduction: poetry and its place in modern life
Lecture II. Poetry as a way of life
Lecture III. Love in poetry
Lecture IV. Politics in poetry
Lecture V. War in poetry
Lecture VI. Death in poetry
Lecture VII. Poetry and women
Lecture VIII. Nature in poetry
Lecture IX. Urban life in poetry
Lecture X. Summary

Prerequisites:
Students who take this course are expected to have already built for themselves a relatively sound knowledge base
of the English language and literature. They may have completed courses like Advanced English, Survey of the
U.S.A and Great Britain, History of British and American Literature, Readings in British and American
literature, Introduction to Western Civilization, Critical Approaches to Cultural Understanding, Cross-
cultural Communication, and etc.