Unit 4 Exploring Poetry Welcome to the unit & Reading 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语译林版（2020）选择性必修第一册

Welcome to the unit & Reading Book 4 Unit4 Exploring poetry Have you ever read any English poems? Lead-in I love three things in the world sun , moon , and you  sun for the morning  moon for the night and you forever ---Stray Birds 《飞鸟集》 浮世万千，吾爱有三 日，月，君 日为朝 月为暮 君为朝朝暮暮 Let’s appreciate a video together. Lead-in Poetry is an expression of one’s will. What is kept in the heart is the will, but when expressed in words, it is poetry. —“Preface to The Book of Songs” 诗者，志之所之也。 在心为志，发言为诗。 Lead-in 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 rhyme 押韵 Appreciation Dreams By Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想， For if dreams die 因为梦想若是消亡 Life is a broken-winged bird 生命就像鸟儿折了翅膀 That can never fly. 再也不能飞翔 Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想， For when dreams go 梦想若是消丧 Life is a barren field 生命就像贫瘠的荒野， Frozen only with snow 雪覆冰封，万物不再生长 personification 拟人 metaphor 暗喻 rhyme 押韵 Appreciation repetition 重复 In the second one,Langston Hughes emphasizes the importance of having dreams in one’s life.And he uses some artistic techniques, such as metaphor and personification. Both poems are very descriptive. “A Spring Morning” reveals the poet’s love of spring and his regret of its departure. How do you like the two poems? Welcome to the unit What other poems or poets do you know about? Du Fu: He wrote poems about the beauty of nature and his experiences while traveling. He had a great gift for language. He met Li Bai on his travels and he admired the great poet very much. I know his poem “On Yueyang Tower”, which describes what he saw and how he felt he visited the great tower. Welcome to the unit Welcome to the unit Emily Dickinson: A famous American poet, she wrote poems that are creative and encourage careful thought. I like her poem “ ‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers”， which compared the feeling of hopefulness and expectation to a bird. What other poems or poets do you know about? Pre-reading 1. Why do people read poetry? “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion...” Pre-reading According to the title, what will the passage talk about? “How to read a poem” 2. Do you have any difficulty in reading a poem? Pre-reading What type of text is it? “How to read a poem” A. Narration (记叙文). B. Argumentation（议论文） C. Exposition（说明文）. . Why do people read poems? Poems create vivid pictures and tell stories by using language creatively. Readers enjoy the challenge of trying to understand the poet’s intention in writing a happening during the time when it was written. Readers can look at the poem’s form and literary devices to see what the poet saw. By reading it aloud, they can feel the rhythms and rhymes of the poem as well as the poet’s emotions. Pre-reading Finish the task on P46 while watching. Global reading Finish the task on P46 while watching. Global reading Sound Sense How does it sound? an explorer in an unfamiliar landscape patient fully understand a poem to appreciate it Understanding a poem from TWO aspects metaphor personification literary devices: rhythm节奏 rhyme押韵 Pre-reading 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 How is poetry different from other types of literature? 2. What aspect should you pay special attention to when you read a poem aloud? 3. What characteristics can you find when you analyse its sound? Detailed reading Read para 1 & 2 and the first poem and answer the questions. How is poetry different from other types of literature? More than other types of literature, it usually implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page. What sound qualities should we notice when reading a poem? Detailed reading rhythm repeated words rhyme other special effects Concept of rhyme. Detailed reading 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) Read the poem aloud and feel how they sound. repeated words rhymes What characteristics of its sound can you find after you read it? Firstly, the words “Wind of the western sea” are repeated. Secondly, there are several rhyming words: “low” rhyming with “blow” and “go”, “sea” rhyming with “me”. Detailed reading 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. About the poet Read Para. 3 and the second poem and 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 talking? Who is being talked to? What is being described? Is there a sense of place? Are there other people or objects there? What are the images? What happens when they are put together? start to ___________ that give you a greater _______________ of the poem. dig up clues understanding Detailed reading The caged bird sings    with a fearful trill    of things unknown    but longed for still    and his tune is heard    on the distant hill    for the caged bird    sings of freedom. (From “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou) Read the poem aloud together What images come into your mind when reading it? When I read it, I can see in my mind the image of a bird in a cage, which is desperately singing for freedom. Detailed reading An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was also an educator who served as a professor in the university. About the poet What does the lecturer think of poems that are easy to understand? What should you do when you have difficulty in understanding a poem? According to the lecturer, what is more important in appreciating a poem? What is the function of the poem quoted after Para. 4? Detailed reading Read paras 4-5 and the third poem, and answer the questions. What does the lecturer think of poems that are easy to understand? They are often less interesting than those that constantly reveal deeper and previously unrecognized meanings. What should you do when you have difficulty in understanding a poem? We should set it aside and come back to it later. With our insight into life becoming deeper, we may one day find it not so hard to understand at all. Detailed reading Read paras 4-5 and answer the questions. According to the lecturer, what is more important in appreciating a poem? Poetry reading can make us feel something or let us perceive another level of meaning, which is more important and worth our effort. What is the function of the poem quoted after Para. 4? This poem is not easy to understand and is suitable as an example to support the tip of “be patient when having trouble in understanding a poem”. Detailed reading Read paras 4-5 and answer the questions. Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with snow.    From “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost Read the poem aloud together Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet who was much admired for his description of the rural life of New England, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. His famous poems include: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken. About the poet 1. What is the function of the last paragraph? Detailed reading Read para 6 and answer the question. The last paragraph echoes(v.呼应) the beginning by repeat “poetry is the combination of “sound”and “sense”again, which makes the lecture more coherent.(连贯的). Please choose one of the poems in the lecture transcript and think about the sound and sense of the poem. Please give some other tips on how to read a poem. Post reading Please choose one of the poems in the lecture transcript and think about the sound and sense of the poem. The poem by Maya Angelou describes the image of a caged bird wanting to be free. The lines are short and simple, which makes the message more direct and powerful. The short lines could also imply the sense of being in a small cage with very little space to fly around in. This does not stop the bird from singing though, and by repeating the sound of some words: “trill”, “still”, and “hill” I can imagine the sound that the bird makes it sings its lonely song. “Caged Bird” reminds me of the possibilities we have in life and that we should look past our current limitations. Post reading Please give some other tips on how to read a poem. From my point of understand a poem better, we should also know more about the poet and the background in which the poem was created — the theme of a poem usually has a close relationship with the background in which the poet wrote it. Post reading set aside remote complex contradictory Homework Check 37 Interpreting rewarded constantly dig up Homework Check 38 Forming compound adjectives Compound adjectives are formed with two or more words. Some of them are written together as one word and some are joined by one or more hyphens. You can look them up in the dictionary for the right forms. 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