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人教版（2019）选择性必修第三册Unit 5 Section IV
How Did Poetry Begin?
Poems can make you feel emotions, like anger or sadness, depending on the words and how they are put together. That is the 1 of poetry.
Poetry 2 even before humans knew how to read and write, dating back to around 3000 BCE. Some of the earliest poetry was
3 or sung, and was used as a way to record and pass down historical and religious stories and cultural traditions from one generation to the next. Since writing was not practised then, certain sounds and rhymes were used to make these stories 4 and therefore, memorable.
There are 5 three types of ancient poetry. The first was an epic(史诗) or long narrative(叙事的) poetry usually about a 6
event. The second type was lyric(抒情的) poetry or poetry that 7
personal feelings. Finally there was drama or stories written in verse and usually 8 like Greek tragedies and Shakespeare's plays.
The invention of the printing press(印刷机) in the 15th century brought poetry to the common people. This was followed by several major literary periods, during which poetry 9 dramatic changes. They started with Europe's Renaissance period from the 14th to the 16th century, which first helped poetry and poets like Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh become popular.
The Romantic period saw 10 poems that expressed a poet's joys, hopes, and sorrows in a conversational tone. Then came the Victorian era, which saw the 11 of structured poems and the birth of modern "12 verse" poetry. American poet Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is 13 to be the first example of free verse poetry.
Modern poetry is a 14 of all of these styles. We still see rhymes in children's poems and in the popular African-American styles of hip hop and rap music, which are a 15 of rhymed poetry put to a musical beat.
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