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课件网) Unit 4 Exploring poetry Welcome to the unit & Reading (I) Thinking & talking Why do people read poems By reading it aloud, readers can feel the rhythms and rhymes of the poem as well as the poet’s emotions. They can cultivate people's taste. They can let readers understand the poet’s intention through vivid images They can make readers see what the poet saw and feel what the poet felt through the poem’s form and literary devices Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. 画是无言的诗，诗是有声的画。 What aspects of a poem do you pay attention to when appreciating it sound & sense A Spring Morning By Meng Haoran This spring morning in bed I’m lying, Not to awake till birds are crying. After one night of wind and showers, How many are the fallen flowers! Translated by Xu Yuanchong Reading and appreciating Dreams By Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow Reading and appreciating metaphor personification literary devices: rhythm节奏 rhyme押韵 Do you really know how to read a poem How to read a poem (1)_____ Homework checking (A1: Structure of the passage) Poetry (2)_____ Follow your ears and ask “(3)_____” Approach the poem as (4)_____. Be (5)_____. Remember that it is not necessary to (6)_____. Sound Sense How does it sound an explorer in an unfamiliar lanscape patient fully understand a poem to appreciate it How is poetry different from other types of literature according to para.1 It usually implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page. Explore the beauty of sound 1. What aspects should you pay special attention to when you read a poem aloud 2. Can you find out the aspects above in the following poem Detailed Reading-- read Para. 2 and the first poem to answer ： The aspects of rhythm, repeated words, rhymes and other special effects. Follow your ears and read the poem aloud! Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea. Over the rolling waters go; Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me, While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps. (From “Sweet and Low” by Alfred Tennyson) About the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) More than any other Victorian-era writer, Tennyson has seemed the representative of his age. In his own day he was said to be—with Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Gladstone—one of the three most famous living persons, a reputation no other poet writing in English has ever had. Explore the beauty of sense Detailed Reading: read Para. 3 and the second poem to finish the chart. Approach the poem as if you were an _____ in an unfamiliar_____ As you approach the poem, you should ask: As you explore the poem, you should ask: As you slowly explore your surroundings, you will explorer landscape Who is talki ... ...
