【背景】
诗歌是一种主情的文学体裁，它以抒情的方式，高度凝练，集中地反映社会生活，用丰富的想象、富有节奏感、韵律美的语言和分行排列的形式来抒发思想情感。诗歌是有节奏、有韵律并富有感情色彩的一种语言艺术形式，也是世界上最古老、最基本的文学形式。
诗歌起源于上古的社会生活，因劳动生产、两性相恋、原始宗教等而产生的.一种有韵律、富有感情色彩的语言形式。《尚书·虞书》：“诗言志，歌咏言，声依永，律和声。”《礼记·乐记》：“诗，言其志也；歌，咏其声也；舞，动其容也；三者本于心，然后乐器从之。”早期，诗、歌与乐、舞是合为一体的。诗即歌词，在实际表演中总是配合音乐、舞蹈而歌唱，后来诗、歌、乐、舞各自发展，独立成体，诗与歌统称诗歌。
【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"?
词汇讲解：
1. poetry (n.) 诗
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于写短篇小说，但是你知道么，他也写诗词？
2. festival (n.) 节庆
At this year's international food festival, I tried a lot of dishes that I'd never had before.
在今年的国际食品节上，我吃到了很多以前没吃过的菜。
3. headache (n.) 头痛
I didn't get much sleep last night, so I've had a headache all day long.
我昨晚没睡好，所以今天一直头疼。
4. incomprehensible (adj.) 难懂的；无法理解的
Lisa didn't know anything about the stock market, so most of what her friends were discussing was incomprehensible to her.
丽莎不是很懂股票，所以她听不懂朋友们对她说的事。
5. to rhyme (v.) 押韵
Sandi Landy's friends often teased her because her name rhymed.
Sandi Landy经常被自己的朋友取笑，因为她的名字押韵。
6. flowery language 瑰丽的词藻
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:还不错，比我想的好，本来还担心修饰语用的太多，不过老师还是给了我一个高分。
7. love sonnet十四行情诗
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：你觉得我应该怎么向自己喜欢的女孩表白呢？
B:写一首14行情诗吧，再背给她听。
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:这个数学题太难了
B:别担心，只要我们一起想，肯定可以想出来的。
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