Nostalgia Teaching Design
Taiwanese writer Yu Guangzhong is a poet who has been away from the mainland for more than 30 years. His "Nostalgia" uses a unique perspective and plain language to express affectionately. It expresses the author's deep homesickness for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of relatives. His works have a profound imprint of the times. Below is the nostalgia teaching design I compiled. Let’s take a look.
Textbook Analysis
Taiwanese writer Yu Guangzhong is a poet who has been away from mainland China for more than 30 years. His "Nostalgia" uses a unique perspective and plain language. The language affectionately expresses the author's deep homesickness for the reunification of the motherland and the reunion of family members. His works have a profound imprint of the times.
The last four stanzas of the poem are prefaced by changes in time and space throughout the text. The poet extracts four intentions from the vast time and space: stamps, ship tickets, tombs, and straits, forming four metaphors. The sentence transforms the vague and abstract nostalgia and melancholy into a concrete and tangible image. When I left home when I was young, I could only express my longing for my hometown and my family with a sincere letter; when I was newly married, parting was sad, and I could only use "a narrow boat ticket" to build a magpie bridge to make the parting easier. It turned into a reunion; later, my mother passed away, and "a short grave" separated me from my mother forever in two worlds. Nowadays, the saddest "nostalgia" is actually this "shallow strait". Decades of artificial separation have made "I am on this side and the mainland is on the other side". What an unforgettable longing! (This poem was written in 1972, when the mainland was almost isolated from Taiwan)
The poem makes full use of metaphors, contrasts, repetitions, contrasts and other rhetorical techniques. Implicitly and euphemistically, the feeling of missing the motherland is expressed vividly, deeply and naturally. The belief in the return of hope and the reunification of the motherland is mixed with the persistent nostalgia, which further deepens the artistic appeal of the poem.
In terms of form, this poem embodies the structural beauty and musical beauty of poetry. "Nostalgia" has four stanzas, each with four lines and each stanza is balanced and symmetrical. The poet paid attention to the mutual changes between long sentences and short sentences, which have different beauty. The beauty of the music is mainly reflected in the beautiful melody that goes back and forth, chanting and sighing three times, coupled with the use of refrains, the low melody is tactful, weeping and complaining, and it is touching.
The whole poem is like a soft and sad "homesickness song". It is also an affectionate and beautiful love song for the motherland and relatives, with a strong lyrical meaning. The artistic conception created by the poem is melancholy and distant; the language used is novel and simple; the feelings expressed are strong and deep.
Teaching purposes
1. Learn the author’s clever way of writing metaphors and images.
2. Learn how the author uses concrete images to express abstract concepts.
3. Improve students’ ability to appreciate poetry and experience the author’s strong feelings of homesickness and country.
4. Inspire students to love the motherland and long for reunification.
Important and difficult points in teaching
1. Understand the way "Nostalgia" expresses feelings through novel and vivid metaphors.
2. Pay attention to the sublimation of the poet’s thoughts and feelings and the clever use of various rhetorical techniques.
Ability training points
1. Collect poems, lyrics, songs or modern prose that express homesickness, and experience homesickness.
2. Imitate the metaphorical sentence pattern in the poem "Nostalgia" and use the form of metaphor to describe a thing and express an emotion.
Teaching ideas
1. Use homesick songs to introduce, create situations and create atmosphere.
2. Guide and connect the poems, lyrics, music or prose that you have learned, and experience people’s homesickness since ancient times.
3. Guide students to appreciate the artistic conception of the poem and understand the intention and meaning of the author's novel metaphors.
4. Guide students to learn to read poems aloud, divide poems into pauses, mark stress, grasp intonation, and read with music to understand the author's emotions.
5. Guide students to connect with their actual feelings, imagine that they are a wanderer who has lived in Taiwan for a long time, and experience the author’s homesickness and melancholy of the country, as well as the love of roots of overseas Chinese.
6. Expand your reading of "Four Rhymes of Nostalgia" by Yu Guangzhong and the essay "Going to Taipei to Watch the Rain in Winter". Further understand the fervent hope of overseas Chinese for the reunification of the motherland.
7. Speak or write a few lines of "poetry" imitating poetry and use metaphors to express your feelings.
Teaching methods
Situational teaching method, discussion and conversation method
Learning method design
Reading, association, imagination; expressing opinions in connection with reality; Comparative reading; imitating poetry.
Teaching process
1. Play homesick songs before class and create situations (multimedia pictures)
Introduction: Students, the annual New Year’s Day is coming. At this time, how would a wanderer living overseas feel? (student answer) Who can express it in a poem?
"I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my family even more during the holidays." (Wang Wei)
"Wandering homesickness" is an eternal topic in Chinese poetry. So, please review the works you have studied or read and tell us about the poems, lyrics, and songs that describe homesickness. . (Students express their own opinions)
Relevant works:
1. Ma Zhiyuan’s music: "The Pure Sky·Autumn Thoughts" "Withered vines and old trees, dim crows,... The sunset is heartbreaking. "People are at the end of the world"
2. Li Yu's poems "Yu Meiren", "Asking you how much sorrow you can have is just like a river of spring water flowing eastward" "Meeting Happily" "Continuous cutting, the reason is still chaotic , is the sorrow of separation, not the ordinary feeling in my heart."
3. Su Dongpo's "Shui Melody Songtou: When will the bright moon come" "People have joys and sorrows, separation and reunion, the moon waxes and wanes" "I hope people will last forever, "Thousands of miles away ***Chanjuan"
4. He Zhizhang's "Book of Returning to Hometown" When a young boy leaves home and his elder brother comes back, his local pronunciation remains unchanged but his hair on his temples fades. Children don't recognize each other when they see each other. They laugh and ask where the guests are from. ?
5. Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts" "Looking up at the bright moon, bowing down to think of my hometown"
6. Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" "Where is the hometown at sunset?" ?The Yanbo River makes people sad."
Yes! The indelible lovesickness and the lingering nostalgia affect the hearts of so many wanderers! How many heroic young men have turned their heads gray in one night! How romantic! Handsome Zhang Xueliang, who has been trapped in Taiwan for decades, how many times have he been sad about separation, died in a foreign country, and struggled to realize his dream of reunion? For many years, due to historical reasons, the people of Taiwan have been separated from the mainland and have suffered from lovesickness, so they have a strong sense of homesickness. A depth of understanding unparalleled by any other era. His nostalgia poems are also brilliant. Today, let's enjoy "Nostalgia" by the famous Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong.
2. Introduction to the author and understanding of the writing background (slideshow)
Yu Guangzhong: Born in Nanjing in 1928, his ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian, and he now lives in Taiwan. A contemporary poet and poetry critic, he was admitted to the Foreign Languages ??Department of Xiamen University in 1946. Published his first poem in 1948, and went to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army the following year. In October 1953, he participated in the poetry magazine "Genesis" and devoted himself to the creation of modern poetry. His main poems are "Nostalgia", "White Jade Bitter Melon", "Waiting for You in the Rain", and poetry collections include "Linghe" and "Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong". His poems draw on the spirit of both Chinese classical literature and foreign modern literature, with novel and flexible creative techniques, unique metaphors, detailed descriptions, lingering lyricism, and subtle and meaningful meaning. His nostalgia poems are unique, with a profound sense of history and nationality, and profound meaning.
This poem was written in 1972. At that time, mainland China and Taiwan had no contact with each other and were almost isolated. (Encourage students to ask the elders and history teachers for advice or consult information to understand the situation at that time)
3. Read the text aloud and gain overall perception
1. The whole class reads aloud freely and carefully Understand the connotation of poetry and discuss reading skills.
Think and discuss the following questions: (slide)
⑴What kind of thoughts does this poem express? What tone should be used to read it? (Students’ experience, discussion)
This poem expresses the author's unforgettable homesickness and should be read in a deep, sad tone.
⑵ How to grasp the rhythm and stress of each poem? (Students discuss, read, and experience)
2. Training reading:
⑴ Designate one person Students try to read, and other students listen carefully and pay attention to the relevant issues just emphasized.
⑵ Read together, men and women read separately, teachers and students read in pairs, and understand the artistic conception and connotation of the poem through repeated readings.
4. Appreciation of the whole poem
The teacher read the whole poem to the music and asked the students to understand the author's thoughts and feelings.
1. Thinking and discussion: (slideshow)
⑴What is the order throughout the poem?
The whole poem uses changes in time and space as clues. Personal experiences are used throughout the poem.
⑵ What images are used in this poem to express nostalgia? What rhetorical techniques are used in the poem? What is the effect? ??What is the profound meaning?
The poet uses the uncaptured abstract The description of nostalgia as "stamps", "ship tickets", "graves" and "straits" gives nostalgia a sustenance, becomes concrete and tangible, and the image is vivid and touching.
When I was a child, I went out to study. The "little stamp" allowed me to use letters from home to convey the author's longing for my mother and my hometown. When I grew up, I went out to make a living. In addition to my longing for my mother, , and I miss my lover even more. The "narrow ticket" allows me to travel between the mainland and Taiwan, and relieves my endless worries. Later, "a short grave separated me from my mother forever, and we never had the opportunity to see each other again forever. Perhaps, when my mother was dying, she was still looking forward to reunion with tears in her eyes! Now, "a shallow strait" has separated many flesh and blood compatriots. The two places are separated, and I miss them day and night! The poet blends his personal joys and sorrows with the great love of the motherland and the love of the nation, and his emotions are touching and melancholy.
It implies a strong desire to reunite relatives and reunify the motherland.
The whole poem uses novel metaphors to extract four images from the complicated worldly affairs and the vast distance of time and space. In addition, the rhetorical techniques of contrast, repetition, and contrast are also used to describe the wanderer's homesickness in a concrete and tangible way, like crying and complaining, and moving with sadness. The first three stanzas are like surging waves, and the last stanza suddenly merges into a nine-level wave of the whole poem. The emotional tide rushes out and reaches its climax. As the poet said: "The vertical one is the sense of history, the horizontal one is the sense of region, and the intersection of vertical and horizontal forms the sense of reality at the crossroads." The variations of the poet's nostalgia poems in the new era and special geographical conditions are unlike any in the past. The times are incomparable in breadth and depth.
⑶ Extended discussion:
Nostalgia is solemn. Why do the poems say "small stamps", "narrow tickets", "short graves", " "Shallow Strait"?
The author reflects on his words and uses an understatement to concentrate the nostalgia on a small and light object, which reflects the intensity of nostalgia. Entrusting objects to express feelings and express endless nostalgia. It's subtle and euphemistic, yet deeply sad.
⑷What kind of thoughts and feelings does the whole poem express? How do you feel? (Each person expresses his own opinion)
It expresses the author’s strong desire to reunite his relatives and reunify the motherland.
2. Extend the discussion: (slides) (students express their opinions)
⑴ If you had relatives in Taiwan at that time, how would you feel?
⑵ If you were a Taiwanese compatriot, how would you feel when faced with the recovery of Hong Kong and the return of Macao?
⑶ What do you think of the current situation in our country?
5. Expansion exercises
1. Comparative reading: student work "Nostalgia" (self-made slides)
2. Expansion reading about Yu Guangzhong's poems "The Elegy of the Zhouzi", "Nostalgia Four" Rhyme" (Part 2)
6. Assignment (slideshow)
1. Recite and write this poem silently.
2. Write a short poem based on the technique of expressing feelings in this poem, using "maternal love" as the theme, using imagination and clever metaphors.
3. Extended reading:
⑴ Yu Guangzhong’s "Four Rhymes of Nostalgia" to understand the poet’s emotions.
⑵ Read the prose, "Going to Taipei to Watch the Rain in Winter" to experience the mood of overseas travelers.
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