step 5 further-understanding

　　t: this lesson, we’ve learnt much of english poetry, it’s an exciting experience. here is a question for you: the writer talks about the translation of poems in the last paragraph. think this question;

　　task 1

　　q: if a poem is translated into another language, is it still the same poem? what are some differences?

　　a: something of the spirit of the original works is lost (including rhythm, rhyme, figures of speech of the poem, etc.).

　　七步詩(shī).)

　　task 2

　　t: the poet mu dan wrote a short poem, “quietly, we embrace in a world lit up by words.”.

　　q: can you use your own words to explain it?

　　a: when people from one country read the poems from another, they will be struck by what is inside the poem, so they will understand each other and become good friends.

　　step 6 enjoyment

　　t: you have understood the magic that poetry brings, that’s great! there, we can use a image to describe the special role that poems and literature act as, “poems and literature can be bridges.” can you give other images to express the same idea? who’d like to have a try?

　　a: 1.poems and literature can be ties that bring the east and the west together.

　　2. poems and literature can be fine wine enjoyed by the east and the west.

　　t: we say, poems can be fine wine enjoyed by the east and the west. that means not matter you are a english or chinese, you can find amusement in poem. but how to enjoy a english poem? we need to know several simple principle, do you want to know what principles they are? (yes!) well, let’s see a clip of video.

　　(after the end of the video, show the next slide)

　　t: when enjoy an english poem, you should: 1. use your heart and emotion.2. imagine you are exactly in the dream world of that poem.

　　then i saw the congo creeping through the black,

　　cutting through the forest with a golden track.

　　step 7 discussion

　　t: it’s really amusing! at the end of this lesson, let’s have a discussion.

　　are poems good for our life? what can we get from poems?

　　1. poems bring passion (激情) to our life.    2. poems help us to understand life, virtues, beauty and romance…    3. poems make us know, we are here,we can make our life and the world more colorful!

　　step 8 homework

　　1. read the text again to get a better understanding.

　　2. read and translate several good english poems.

　　3. get some information about famous poets on internet if possible.

　　website

　　www.shakespeare.com

　　www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne

　　www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton

　　www.island-of-freedom.com/pope.htm

　　www.john- keats.com

　　www.visitcumbria.com/wilword.htm

　　www.online-literature.com/byron

　　www.robertfrost.org

　　reference for teaching

　　on the sea

　　john keats

　　it keeps eternal whisperings around

　　desolate shores, and with its mighty swell

　　gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell

　　of hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.

　　often 'tis in such gentle temper found,

　　that scarcely will the very smallest shell

　　be mov'd for days from where it sometime fell,

　　when last the winds of heaven were unbound.

　　oh ye! who have your eye-balls vex'd and tir'd,

　　feast them upon the wideness of the sea;

　　oh ye! who have your eye-balls vex'd and tir'd,

　　feast them upon the wideness of the sea;

　　oh ye! whose ears are dinn'd with uproar rude,

　　or fed too much with cloying melody -

　　sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood

　　until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd!

　　a soldier

　　robert frost