A Spring Morning
This spring morning in bed I'm (lie),
Not to a wake till the birds are crying.
After one night of wind and showers,
many are the fallen flowers!
(Translated by Xu Yuanchong)
This poem was writtenMeng Haoran (689~740), who (live) during the Tang Dynasty.
It might be one of the most famous (poem) about spring in China. People like (read) it when they wake up on a spring morning.
Meng didn't directly say how much he loved spring. Instead, he wrote about the details (细节) ofseason: the bids, wind, rain showers and (fall) flowers. His descriptions (描述) of these things showed (we) the joy he felt during springtime.
Meng chose to write about the sounds of spring. These sounds allow readers (picture) spring using their own imagination.
Walt Whitman was a famous American poet (诗人). He was born1May31, 1819, in Long Island. There were nine2in his family, and he wasthe second.3he was four years old, his family movedto Brooklyn because his family was too poor. His childhood was restless (不安宁的) and unhappy.4the age of 11, he left school. Then hebegan to5a job to help his family. As a youngman, Whitman6a school teacher, a printer and anewspaper reporter. He was7years old when he published his firstbook of poetry (诗集) in 1855. He8itLeaves of Grass. It9only twelve poems. The new form of hispoetry10many people. Whitman was poor and weakduring the last years of his life. He died in 1892.
