Seven days of English poetry

Seven days of English poetry

Day 1.

Search for some information in Wikipedia, answer the questions and do some tasks in written form:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry

http://www.questia.com/library/literature/poetry/british-poetry

1.             Which periods of English( British) poetry could you name?

2.            Name the earliestknown English poem.

3.              Whowas the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen byhis contemporaries as a successor to the great   tradition of Virgiland Dante?

4.            Who was the mostsignificant English poet of Early Renaissance poetry who was among the firstpoets to write sonnets in English

5.          What are the examples of the influence of classicism on Elizabethan poetry? Name the author

6.            Name some poetsof the Romantic Movement. (some more information http://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/poets.html)

7.            Which poem oftenvoted Britain's favourite poem?

8.           Which poet afterthe publication of The Waste Land, became a major figure andinfluence on other English poets?

                                                            Well  done!

Day 2.    Poets' Corner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poets%27_Corner

  Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given toa section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of thegood number of  poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.The first person to be interred in Poets' Corner wasGeoffreyChaucer in 1556. Over the centuries, atradition hasgrownup of interring or memorialising people there inrecognition of their contributionto British culture. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the honour isawarded to writers.

The task:     Name some more poets associated with Poets �Corner.

We hope you have done it correctly!

Day 3.   Let us  start to get acquainted with some  English poets

                  William Shakespeare   (1564 - 1616)
For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figurewith regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for informationon the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.

Some more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soawshst.htm

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/index.html

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-facts.htm

 http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/

Answer the questions:

1.              Where  and when was William Shakespeare born?

2.             What kind of education did he get?

3.            Who was his wife?

4.             How many children did they have?

5.             What theater is connected with the name of Shakespeare?

6.             How many  new words did he invent?

 The  task:  Do the  tests   on-line:

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/quizzes/shakespeare/shakespeare.htm

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-quiz/0201.htm

Congratulations!You�ve done a lot!

Day 4.  Listen to some of Shakespeare's sonnets, and other works

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s&feature=related

Shakespeare's Sonnets Audio book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2KeALDmztQ&list=LPUiUSlb0hB9M&index=2&feature=plcp

Shakespeare's words and expressions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgZxAIiO04&feature=related

Act 1 - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UY5HUbvWb0&feature=related

The task: Find s and write down some of Shakespeare's sonnets translated into Russian

Day 5.

RobertBurns (25 January1759 -  21 July 1796)

(also known as RabbieBurns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robdenof Solway Firth, theBard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard)was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widelyregarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He isthe best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, althoughmuch of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible toan audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in thesehis political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romanticmovement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism,and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

http://www.robertburns.org/

Listen and try to read in the same manner

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns - Poetry Reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJiJ_lND8kI&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJGaRb3WCT4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOyD2Pnp7o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AItlCyEX9nc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCZduGdax8&feature=related

Day 6.

The Romantic Movement in English literature

The main poets ofthis movement were William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel TaylorColeridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron,and JohnKeats. The birth of English Romanticism isoften dated to the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge's LyricalBallads.

William Blake (1757 -  1827)

 http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_blake/biography

https://sites.google.com/site/kgjeans/home

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

http://www.gailgastfield.com/Blake.html

Listen and try to read in the same manner

William Blake's "The Tyger" Short Lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMwNvzRKX64&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rbk8L_UFw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCVumXD2q8&feature=related

WilliamWordsworth  (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_wordsworth/poems

Listen and try to read in the same manner

Daffodils -William Wordsworth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShsSLVhJ8M&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWY2mEhkjUI&feature=fvwrel

Lord Byron  (22 January 1788 -19 April 1824)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lord_byron/biography

http://englishhistory.net/byron.html

http://englishhistory.net/byron/moorebyron.html

Listen and try to read in the same manner

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVVU5wJrEF4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYlgr4xN0o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43EAM5flh8o&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFnNnse10Q&feature=related

Day 7.

Christina  Rossetti    (5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894)

She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children�spoems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market,herlove poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol Inthe Bleak Midwinter. Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as thegreatest female poet in English up to her own time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/716 

Remember ( a poem by Christina Rossetti )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRh2ebJYvs

An Echo by Christina Rossetti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3yS_8k130&feature=related

Rudyard  Kipling  (1865 - 1936)

He was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chieflyremembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his talesfor children. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature  in 1907. Hewas born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken byhis family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for hisworks of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection ofstories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"),Just So Stories (1902)(1894), Kim(1901) (a tale of adventure), andhis poems, including"Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890),"The White Man'sBurden" (1899) and "If�" (1910). He is regarded as a major"innovator in the art of the short story".   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm

Listen and try to read in the same manner

"If" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry reading)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK4HDCIr_E8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5txHlSOUI&feature=related

The task:  Learn  the most favourite poem by heart and try to recite it

Do the project work "My favourite English poet" ( 3-4 slides including some  biography, a portrait of your favorite poet and 2-3 poems with illustrations)