談談如何輕鬆學詩歌英語
【背景】
詩歌是一種主情的文學體裁，它以抒情的方式，高度凝練，集中地反映社會生活，用豐富的想象、富有節奏感、韻律美的語言和分行排列的形式來抒發思想情感。詩歌是有節奏、有韻律並富有感情色彩的一種語言藝術形式，也是世界上最古老、最基本的文學形式。
詩歌起源於上古的社會生活，因勞動生產、兩性相戀、原始宗教等而產生的一種有韻律、富有感情色彩的語言形式。《尚書·虞書》：“詩言志，歌詠言，聲依永，律和聲。”《禮記·樂記》：“詩，言其志也；歌，詠其聲也；舞，動其容也；三者本於心，然後樂器從之。”早期，詩、歌與樂、舞是合為一體的。詩即歌詞，在實際表演中總是配合音樂、舞蹈而歌唱，後來詩、歌、樂、舞各自發展，獨立成體，詩與歌統稱詩歌。
【原文】
Amanda: Hi, Mike. What are you reading?
Mike: Oh, these are just some books I picked up at a local poetry festival that took place a couple of weeks ago. Even though a lot of what the featured poets read wasn't in English, it was still neat to see that there are so many people who appreciate poetry in Taiwan.
Amanda: I didn't know you were such a poetry lover, Mike. Personally, I've always found that stuff a little bit boring and hard to understand. All that flowery language gives me a headache! I'd rather read a nice long novel any day.
Mike: I'll admit that poetry's an acquired taste. But once you learn more about it, you'll find that poems aren't all flowery and incomprehensible－they don't even have to rhyme! One of my favorite poets is Billy Collins, who writes really funny, clever poems in simple everyday English.
Amanda: I'll have to look him up. Say, have you ever written any poetry of your own? Some love sonnets, perhaps?
Mike: No love sonnets, but I did try to write some poems a long time ago. They were all really bad. Once I spent three hours trying to come up with a word that rhymes with "panda"!
Amanda: Silly Mike! How could you not think of "Amanda"?
詞彙講解：
1. poetry (n.) 詩
Most people have heard of Ernest Hemingway 's short stories, but did you know that he wrote poetry as well?
很多人都知道海明威善於寫短篇小說，但是你知道麼，他也寫詩詞？
2. festival (n.) 節慶
At this year's international food festival, I tried a lot of dishes that I'd never had before.
在今年的`國際食品節上，我吃到了很多以前沒吃過的菜。
3. headache (n.) 頭痛
I didn't get much sleep last night, so I've had a headache all day long.
我昨晚沒睡好，所以今天一直頭疼。
4. incomprehensible (adj.) 難懂的；無法理解的
Lisa didn't know anything about the stock market, so most of what her friends were discussing was incomprehensible to her.
麗莎不是很懂股票，所以她聽不懂朋友們對她說的事。
5. to rhyme (v.) 押韻
Sandi Landy's friends often teased her because her name rhymed.
Sandi Landy經常被自己的朋友取笑，因為她的名字押韻。
6. flowery language 瑰麗的詞藻
A: How did you do on your essay ?
B: Better than I expected. I was afraid I'd used too much flowery language, but my teacher still gave me a good grade.
A:你的作文得了多少分？
B:還不錯，比我想的好，本來還擔心修飾語用的太多，不過老師還是給了我一個高分。
7. love sonnet十四行情詩
A: Can you think of a good way to impress the girl I like?
B: Maybe you should memorize a few love sonnets and recite them to her.
A：你覺得我應該怎麼向自己喜歡的女孩表白呢？
B:寫一首14行情詩吧，再背給她聽。
8. to come up with 想出…
A: This math problem is so hard!
B: Relax. I'm sure if we work on it together we'll be able to come up with the correct answer
A:這個數學題太難了
B:別擔心，只要我們一起想，肯定可以想出來的。