目录

  • 1 第一单元
    • 1.1 课程考核方案
    • 1.2 第二课时
  • 2 第二单元
    • 2.1 Task 1: How the Normans changed the history of Europe
    • 2.2 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
      • 2.2.1 Characters
      • 2.2.2 Plot Summary
      • 2.2.3 The Wife of Baths Prologue
      • 2.2.4 Themes
  • 3 第三单元
    • 3.1 Tercet/Haiku
    • 3.2 ​The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
      • 3.2.1 Medical Chart Completion Assignment
  • 4 第四单元
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 William Shakespeare | Biography
    • 4.3 Expressions from Shakespeare
    • 4.4 Shakespeare Sonnet 18
    • 4.5 Shakespeare Sonnet 116
    • 4.6 Seven Ages of Man
      • 4.6.1 On Feeling Melancholy
      • 4.6.2 Metaphor and Symbol
  • 5 第五单元
    • 5.1 There Is No Escaping Shakespeare
    • 5.2 Hamlet
    • 5.3 Shakespeare Sonnet 130
  • 6 第六单元
    • 6.1 The Flea
    • 6.2 No Man is an Island
    • 6.3 Life Story of John Donne
  • 7 第七单元
    • 7.1 Daniel Defoe
      • 7.1.1 A Journal of the Plague Year
        • 7.1.1.1 Excerpt
  • 8 第八单元
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns
      • 8.2.1 Robert Burns A Red Red Rose
      • 8.2.2 'Auld Lang Syne'
      • 8.2.3 Burn's Supper/Night
    • 8.3 Intertextuality
    • 8.4 World Book and Copyright Day
    • 8.5 Why should you read Charles Dickens
  • 9 第九单元
    • 9.1 She Walks in Beauty
      • 9.1.1 Overview
      • 9.1.2 Themes
    • 9.2 There Was Once
      • 9.2.1 Questions and Discussion
    • 9.3 Antigone
  • 10 第十单元
    • 10.1 My Heart Leaps Up
    • 10.2 William Wordsworth
      • 10.2.1 I wandered lonely as a Cloud
  • 11 第十一单元
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Antithesis/Alliteration/Anaphora
    • 11.3 Edgar Allan Poe
      • 11.3.1 The Tell-tale Heart
      • 11.3.2 Annabel Lee
    • 11.4 The Selfish Giant
    • 11.5 THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE
  • 12 第十二单元
    • 12.1 Geneviève Emy
  • 13 第十三单元
    • 13.1 The Second Coming- by William Butler Yeats
      • 13.1.1 Analysis of William Butler Yeats's -The Second Coming
    • 13.2 Down By the Salley Gardens
      • 13.2.1 Down by the Sally Gardens-Maura O'Connell with Karen Matheson
    • 13.3 The Stolen Child
  • 14 第十四单元
    • 14.1 Kurt Vonnegut
  • 15 第十五单元
    • 15.1 Week 15
    • 15.2 Virginia Woolf-Moments of Being
      • 15.2.1 The Hours
    • 15.3 James Joyce -Ulysses
    • 15.4 William Blake
      • 15.4.1 Genre: illustration/painting
    • 15.5 Infinite Jest
      • 15.5.1 Hamlet
      • 15.5.2 An Excerpt from This Is Water
  • 16 第十六单元
    • 16.1 第一课时
    • 16.2 第二课时
She Walks in Beauty


Here comes a poem She walks in Beauty, which was written by Lord Byron in June 1814. And the soundtrack of Vanity Fair is Sang by Sissel.  A movie was a complete failure, but holy crap, the opening sequence is a stunning work of art. The soprano's voice with clarity is a perfect match, and lyrics with purity as well. I felt every emotion in a couple of scenarios with the peacock,  slender fingers,  a billowing skirt, and water lilies. Gorgeous! I hope you'll like it. 

P.S. how do you translate the topic?

P.P.S. do you like this one?

P.P.P.S. Suppose you were a poet, a composer, a singer, or a painter, and who is the woman in your She Walks in Beauty? 

She Walks in Beauty

George Gordon Byron - 1788-1824


I.


She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.


II.


One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.


III.


And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!


Written June 12, 1814. This poem is in the public domain.