(共17张PPT)
Unit 5 Poems
选择性必修3
Reading for Writing
1. Read a poem and write a short essay about it.
2. Write your own poem.
Enjoy more poems
P56 . 1. Before you read, discuss how to understand a poem with your partner. Make a list of questions that the readers should consider while reading poems. The following points may help you.
Subject
Images
Tone
Rhythm and sounds
Feelings and emotions
Rhetorical devices
Read the poems below and then complete the table on P57.
WIND ON THE HILL
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
n. 细绳;线;一串
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
A. A. Milne
DREAM
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.
Langston Hughes
adj. 贫瘠的;不结果实的
A MATCH
If love were what the rose is,
And I were the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Brown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or grey grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
A. C. Swinburne
n. 悲伤;悲痛;伤心事
Wind on the Hill Dream A Match
Subject
Images
Rhyming words
Rhetorical devices修辞手法
wind
dream
love
Where the wind comes from and goes
Hold fast to dreams
If love were what the rose is
knows, goes, can, ran
personification拟人
die, fly,
go, snow
metaphor暗喻
leaf, grief
metaphor暗喻
Choose one of the poems and write a short essay about it. The following example may help you.
The poem Dream by Langston Hughes is very short with only 8 lines. When I read the poem aloud I can hear that the ends of the second and fourth sentences rhyme — “die” and “fly”. The last word from the sixth and eighth sentences also rhyme— “go” and “snow”. These rhyming words sound nice and make the poem pleasing to read.
When I close my eyes, I can see different images from the poem. For example, I can see two hands being held. I can see a bird flying in the sky. I can see a field and I can imagine what it looks like with lots of snow. I start to feel cold when I read these lines!
I learnt a new phrase, “hold fast”, which means to hold onto something. “Barren” is also a new word to me, which means empty.
I think the poet is giving us advice. He wants us to keep dreaming, because life is much better when we dream and have something to look forward to.
【1】画线部分为"感官动词+宾语+宾补"结构,being held为过去分词的进行式作宾补,表示正在进行的被动动作。
【2】画线部分为"感官动词+宾语+宾补"结构,现在分词短语在此作宾补,表示正在进行的主动动作。
How to write a short essay about a poem
如何写诗歌赏析类文章
写法一: 通过对全诗的整体分析,表达自己的观点 写法二:
就诗歌最突出的方面进行分析,表达自己的见解。
写作指导
本单元要求学生根据自己所熟悉的古诗,用英语写出其大意,并说明诗中所蕴含的作者的思想。写作步骤一般是“三段式”,具体为:
第一段:简要介绍诗歌的作者及内容。
第二段:详细论述诗歌的主题。
第三段:启迪与感想。
常用表达
(一)开头常用句式——介绍诗歌及作者
Here is a poem entitled “...” by...,which enjoys great popularity among readers.
(二)主体常用句式
1.Young as we are,we come to realize that as long as we try,nothing is impossible.
2.She often encourages me to face everything,sad or happy.
3.Remember,the best love is to love others unconditionally rather than make demands on them.
(三)结尾常用句式
1.I’m deeply moved by the above poem reminding us of the importance of trying to seize every chance to do what we should do before it’s too late in our life.
2.We should call on people all over the world to change our living ways before all hopes have gone.
写 作 训 练
请根据唐朝诗人李绅的《悯农》,用英语写出这首诗的大意,并说明诗中所蕴含的作者的思想,以便向你的外国朋友解释。
Sympathy on the Farmers
At noon,farmers are weeding,
Down the field,sweat is dropping.
Who knows rice on a dish,
Every grain is full of moiling
注意:
1.不得照抄短诗原文;
2.必须结合短诗的内容,发挥想象,适当展开;
3.短文不能写成诗歌形式;
4.词数100左右。