Part One Entrée to English Poetry Ⅰ.What Is Poetry Ⅱ.The Function of Poetry Ⅲ.Major Types of Poetry 1.Narrative Poetry 2.Lyric Poetry 3.Dramatic Poetry Ⅳ.Elements of Poetry 1.Rhyme 2.Metre 3.Foot 4.Metrical Pattern 5.Stanza 6.Image 7.Symbol 8.Figures of Speech 9.Speaker and Tone 10.Diction 11.Subjeet Matter and Theme Ⅴ.How to Read a Poem 1.Read a Poem More Than Once 2.Keep a Dictionary Nearby and Use It 3.Read So As to Hear the Sounds of the Words in Your Mind 4.Pay Full Attention to What the Poem Is Saying 5.Practice Reading Poems Aloud Part Two British Poetry 1.Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34 Sonnet 75 2.Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 3.William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Sonnet 18 Sonnet 73 To Be,or Not to Be——That Is the Question All the World Is a Stage 4.Ben Jonson Song:To Celia 5.John Donne A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning The Flea from Holy Sonnets 6.Robert Herrick To the Virgins.to Make Much of Time 7.George Herbert Virtue Easter Wings 8.John Milton Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint