Unit 2 Poems Talk something about Chinese poems诗言志.pptVIP

Trees (a haiku poem) Green every spring Bright orange in autumn Bare in winter Coming Home ( a Tang poem) I left home young and not till old do I come back, My accent is unchanged, my hair no longer black. The children don’t know me,whom I meet on the way Where do you come from,revered sir?they smile and say. Using language on P15 Part 3 A parent (father/mother) speaking to a young adult child ( son or daughter). Reasons:Many of the phrases imply that the speaker is an older person.For example, I’ve saved the summer and I’ve saved some sunlight .When the speaker says till you are older…he/she is implying that he/she is much older than the young person( that is, till you are older like me).. The parent also says that although he /she is older , he/ she does not answer the answers to life’s questions (I know no answers to help you on your way / if you have a need for love, I’ll give you all I own.) We know the son is an adult because the speaker refers to the time when you were but nineteen * Unit 2 Poems Talk something about Chinese poems 杜甫 春望 It shows people’s miserable life because of war. 王昌龄 从军行 It shows the determination to defend the motherland. 岳飞 满江红 It expresses the writer’s love for the country as well as the worry about defeating the enemies. As we know, poems are mostly written to show people’s emotions.. In Chinese , we have 诗言志，诗言情，诗歌合为事而作. That is, people write poems for different reasons, then we have different kind of poems.Next go over quickly the poems in the reading part. And then tick the correct box/boxes for each question on P9 Poetry is a great form of literature.There are different kinds of rules for poems, so the forms of poems are quite different from country to country. The passage in Reading will tell us something about forms of English poems. Now read the text on P 10 and find out information to complete the following form. Features Forms Nursery rhymes List poems Cinquain Haik