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选修六 Unit 2 Poems (4)
高二年级 英语
Lesson 4 How to write a poem
Writing
Oral task
Your class is making a poem collection for the school art fair.
Each student in your class has to contribute a poem.
Talk to your friend about it, with the expressions about plans and intentions.
Read the two poems from our textbook, and answer the following questions.
1. Who is the poem written to?
2. What does each poem talk about?
3. Is it about a real situation or an imagined situation?
4. What images come into your mind?
5. How does the poem make you feel?
Reading for writing
I’VE SAVED THE SUMMER
I’ve saved the summer
And I give it all to you
To hold on winter mornings
When the snow is new.
I’ve saved some sunlight
If you should ever need
A place away from darkness
Where your mind can feed.
Poem A
I’VE SAVED THE SUMMER
And for myself I’ve kept your smile
When you were but nineteen,
Till you’re older you’ll not know
What brave young smiles can mean.
Poem A
I’VE SAVED THE SUMMER
I know no answers
To help you on your way
The answers lie somewhere
At the bottom of the day.
But If you’ve a need for love
I’ll give you all l own
It might help you down the road
Till you’ve found your own.
(by Rod Mckuen)
Poem A
If you were the only girl in the world
and I were the only boy!
Nothing else would matter in the world today
we could go on loving in the same old way!
A garden of Eden just made for two
with nothing to mar our joy
Poem B
I would say such wonderful things to you
there would be such wonderful things to do
If you were the only girl in the world
and I were the only boy!
(by Clifford Grey)
Poem B
Keys
1. Who is the poem written to?
Poem A is written to a young adult child from a parent’s perspective.
Reading for writing
I’VE SAVED THE SUMMER
And for myself I’ve kept your smile
When you were but nineteen,
Till you're older you’ll not know
What brave young smiles can mean.
Poem A
Keys
1. Who is the poem written to?
Reading for writing
Poem B is written to a girl whom the boy is deeply in love with.
If you were the only girl in the world
and I were the only boy!
Nothing else would matter in the world today
we could go on loving in the same old way!
A garden of Eden Just made for two
with nothing to mar our joy
Poem B
Keys
2. What does each poem talk about?
Poem A is about the selfless love a parent can give to a child.
Poem B is about love between a young man and a young woman.
Reading for writing
Keys
3. Is it about a real situation or an imagined situation?
Poem A: ‘But If you’ve a need for love I’ll give you all l own.’
Poem B: ‘If you were the only girl in the world and I were the only boy!’
A real situation
An imagined situation
Reading for writing
be — were
Keys
4. What images come into your mind?
Poem A: hot summer days, cold winter mornings, sunlight, smile…
Poem B: A young man and a young woman holding hands, strolling in a beautiful garden.
Reading for writing
Keys
5. How does the poem make you feel?
Poem A: touched by the unconditional love from the parent
Poem B: a little bit sad, or a feeling of melancholy
Reading for writing
5-question writing model
Your class is making a poem collection for the school art fair.
Each student in your class has to contribute a poem.
You are going to write a poem under the title “If I …”, and you can write about either a real situation or an imagined situation.
Writing task
Brainstorming
1. What do you write about?
My friend Mike Shaw
Really knows how to draw
But his awful paintings
Have caused many faintings
An anecdote of a friend
Your own life and opinions
Theme
1. What do you write about?
Having a pet dog
Funniest TV talk show
Someone you have a crush on
A love-hate relationship with your cell phone
Theme
…
2. How you are going to write about “having a pet dog” for…?
a) your parents
b) your friend who wants to have a pet
If you have a pet dog, you will regret
For not having it sooner.
If I have a pet dog, I would do all the housework for a whole year.
Subject
Real situations:
If I have a pet dog tomorrow…
If I go to Peking university…
If I become a rock star…
Imagined situations:
If I had a pet dog which could speak…
If I had a million dollars …
If I were invisible…
3. Are you going to write about a real situation or an imagined situation?
Situation
If … am/is/are/do…
If … were/did…
If I become a rock star
I will make the list of all chemical elements rock and roll
So when my chemistry teacher is teaching
She will go like ‘Hey, you, come and meet some precious metal’
3. Are you going to write about a real situation or an imagined situation?
Situation
If I were invisible
I would be able to see the things unseen
Like the wind that sweeps rain to us
Or the faith that believers so much praise
that they neither can see nor touch
3. Are you going to write about a real situation or an imagined situation?
Situation
4. What emotions do you want to bring into your poem?
Touching love from the parents
An inspiring story of your role model
Some serious words about environmental protection
A funny little thing happened at the supermarket
…
Emotions
5. Put down as many concrete words as possible.
If I had a million dollars…
villa; private plane; crown; sun…
Images
Describe with five scenes
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
Of happy children.
(by Issa)
Images
First autumn morning:
The mirror I stare into
Shows my father’s face.
(by Kijo Murakami)
Haiku (A Japanese form of poetry with 17 syllables)
Tune: Sunny Sand—Autumn Thoughts
Over old trees wreathed with rotten vines fly evening crows; Under a small bridge near a cottage a stream flows;
On ancient road in the west wind a lean horse goes. Westward declines the sun;
Far, far from home is the heartbroken one.
Images
(by Ma Zhiyuan)
(translation by: Xu Yuanchong)
…
I know no answers
To help you on your way
The answers lie somewhere
At the bottom of the day.
…
I've saved some sunlight
If you should ever need
A place away from darkness
Where your mind can feed.
Rhyme
Poetic devices (1)
A
B
C
B
A
B
C
B
The coolness of the night
Refreshes my skin
The stars shine so bright
Causing me to grin
I saw a fish-pond all on fire,
I saw a house bow to a squire,
I saw a person twelve-feet high
I saw a cottage in the sky.
Put into practice (1)
A
A
B
B
A
B
A
B
If you were the only girl in the world
and I were the only boy!
Nothing else would matter in the world today
…
there would be such wonderful things to do
If you were the only girl in the world
and I were the only boy!
Repetition
Poetic devices (2)
If you supply the fantasy and I’ll supply the act
You supply the opinion and I’ll supply the fact
You supply the quip and I’ll supply the smile
You supply the road and I’ll supply that extra mile
Put into practice (2)
You supply the day and I’ll supply the night
You supply the wings and I’ll supply the flight
If I have a pet dog, I will be happy.
Metaphor
If I have a pet dog, my heart will be full of sunshine.
Poetic devices (3)
Simile
If I have a pet dog, I’ll be happy as a sunflower.
3. Books are , with which you will never feel alone.
4. Happiness is , which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp.
1. Knowledge is like , illuminating the voyage of life.
2. Trust is like : once broken, it can never be mended.
Metaphor 3, 4
Put into practice (3)
Simile 1, 2
a light house
a mirror
a butterfly
companions
Time to write
If I were a star
I would keep floating in a lonely night
Only accompanied by black and gloomy sky
I may meet with abandoned aircrafts
And they may sing me a Chinese lullaby
(by Amber)
Students’ works (1)
I can be gentle
and I can also be fierce
It depends on your deeds
So if you want me to treat you friendly
Then first
treat me with respect
(by Phoebe)
Students’ works (2)
What if I could turn back time,
Would I choose to still meet you?
Perhaps life would be in a different rhyme,
But I’d prefer to still be your ‘boo’.
Appreciation (1)
What if I were given a chance to forget the past?
Will taking it makes me happy?
Perhaps it would be a great thing at last,
But I’d rather keep you in my memory.
Appreciation (1)
What if I could control everything,
Will life be much easier?
It would be easy to get rid of this feeling,
But I would still choose to love you, sincere.
Appreciation (1)
What if I could reign over the world?
Naah… Having all would be a mess.
But what if, I would ask you to be mine?
That would be the best.
Baby, would you respond a sweet ‘yes?’
(by Robert Allan Fernandez)
Appreciation (1)
If I should have a daughter,
instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B, because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.
Appreciation (2)
And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands, so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, ‘Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.’
Appreciation (2)
And she’s going to learn that this life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
(by Sarah Kay)
Appreciation (2)
Summary
Poetic devices
Rhyme
Repetition
Metaphor
Simile
1. Polish your poem
Read your poem out loud by yourself or to your friends, and try to get some feedbacks and revise.
2. Write another poem
Use the mind map to gather ideas and write another poem.
Homework
Homework
1. Who is the poem written for?
2. What does the poem talk about?
3. Is it about a or an imagined situation?
4. What images come into your mind?
5. How does the poem make you feel?
6. What poetic devices does it use?
7. Which part do you like and what needs to be improved?
Thank you