Unit2PoemsIWarmingUpReadingPre-reading课件（人教选修6）.pptVIP

Uint 2;Do you like poems？Do you know how to enjoy the beauty of poetry? Please read the following passage to get the answer.;NK runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine I have been eating poetry ... American poet Mark Strand wrote these words about 50 years ago.Now budding (萌芽的) Chinese poets have been coming together to “eat poetry” with the same happiness as Strand.; Nearly 200 people took part in the first National Poetry Congress for High School Students, held at Suzhou No.10 High School in Jiangsu.Adults and teenagers from the country’s 25 high schools gathered together.They recited their works, exchanged thoughts and wrote poems on the spot.; “I’ve never felt so close to poetry before，” said Gao Can from the High School Affiliated to Xi’an Jiaotong University.The 16-year-old said that, in her experience, creating poems is not as difficult as people think.“Anything you want to say could make a poem, just keep your eyes open and try，” she said.; It seems that Liu Yujia from the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University has done just that.In the poem I Have a Dream, Liu makes sharp observations of history and current social phenomena with all the freshness and energy of a teenage mind：; “The math genius we are so proud of doesn’t know how to use an abacus /The music prodigy (神童) we produced doesn’t know jiao, zhi, gong, shang (角，徵，宫，商，我国古代音阶中的四个音)，” read some of Liu’s lines.The poem expresses Liu’s dream of carrying on Chinese traditional culture. Wang Zhongpei from Suzhou No. 10 High School said he fears that poetry is disappearing from campuses today.; “Some say writing or reading poems is useless since it doesn’t help in exams，” he said.“I want to argue that getting close to poems is a way of releasing pressure and of being ourselves.This can help us grow up happily.Isn’t being happy more important than exams？” Liu Yuanzhao, the scho