American Literature(10)

• 報佳音 (Christmas caroling)

•  槲寄生(mistletoe)

According to an old Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss.

• Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day(Sonnet 18)

                                                                        by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee

• Three quatrains plus a concluding couple(Sonnet 18)

• types of meter

Types of Meter Poetry   (點入連結)

• End rhyme=rhym scheme尾韻
• alliteration=頭韻

• "God Save the Queen"

(alternatively "God Save the King" during the reign of a male sovereign)
 is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies.

• "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.