This is a blog for our literature study!
You can find some reading materials here!(As well as the key
points in my ppt!)
You can enjoy some interesting pictures here!
You can express your ideas here!
You can raise all kinds of questions and get various answers
here!
You can discuss with your classmates and new friends here!(And
ME :p)
You can indulge yourselves in literature here!
Just participate and say sth.! Surely, you will get a
lot。。。。。。
p.s. When you come and leave your footprints, do remember to
write down your name or student number......Bonus will be
ready
Sonnet
18
vSHALL I compare thee
to a summer's day?
1) Shakespeare is one of the founders of realism in world
literature. Living in the historical period of the transition from
feudalism to capitalism, he faithfully and vividly reflects the
major social contradiction of his time.
-- “to hold as it were,
the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her
own image, and the very age and body of the time”
2) His drama becomes a monument of the English Renaissance.
Shakespeare was skilled in many poetic forms: the sonnet,
the couplet, and the blank verse. He was especially at home with
the blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameters).
3) Shakespeare was a great master of the English language. He used
about 16,000 words. Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the
English Bible are the two great treasuries of the English
language.
4) The popularity of Shakespeare is a worldwide phenomenon. His
name has been known