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Ai Qing's I Love This Land is a masterpiece of modern new poetry, with sincere, deep and strong feelings, which awakens our memory of the vicissitudes of the nation for a hundred years. When we turn words into sounds and convey our infinite affection for the motherland with recitation, that love will touch everyone's heart. The following is the author's reading design for this poem.
First of all, set the tone and sort out the context
"Touching people, don't worry about love first." Love is the foundation of all artistic touches. Zhang Song once said: "Attitude and emotion are the core of reading foundation, the essence of reading recreation, the life of reading spoken language and the soul of reading skills." So the first step of our design is to determine the emotional tone of the work.
The work was written at the beginning of 1938 Anti-Japanese War. At the critical moment of national decline and national peril, the author wrote this passionate poem-"I love this land" with deep love for the motherland and gnashing hatred for the invaders. Land will always be our hometown. It nurtures us and gives us strength and dreams. In the poem, the author incarnates as a bird and sings his persistent love for this land with passionate songs. The deep emotional tone requires the whole poem to be recited in a slightly slow and deep voice, and some poems are slightly gentle and upward.
Then we should follow the poet's emotional tone and analyze the level of poetry richness under this tone. The whole poem is naturally divided into two parts.
In the first part of the eight sentences, the poet turned into Wu. Even though his voice was hoarse, he still had to sing "the land hit by storms", "the river of grief and indignation" and "the extremely gentle dawn". Even after his death, "even his feathers rotted in the ground". This part can be divided into three levels. First of all, in the first two sentences, the author chooses the image of a bird with a hoarse throat to convey the responsibility entrusted to the poet by the times and the inner singing of the poet. Move in the middle. Then the next four sentences begin with "singing". These four poems are juxtaposed and are the specific content of singing. Seven or eight sentences further sublimated the poet's persistent feelings for the land.
The second part has only two sentences, but it is the poetic eye of the whole poem. The poet expressed his deep and strong love for the land in his question and answer. The last ellipsis, as if the infinite passion surging in the heart, aroused people's * * *.
Second, priorities, cadence
On the basis of grasping the tone and context of the whole poem, this paper designs the specific skills of the whole poem.
The first is to determine the speed of speech. Deep patriotic feelings determine that the whole poem speaks a little slowly, but the last three sentences of "singing" are eulogies to the suffering motherland and unyielding people, and they appear as the object of "singing" at the same time, which is compound sentence, so when reading, you should be impassioned, speak faster and do it in one go. Although the sentence "Dawn" is also the object of "singing", its meaning is obviously different from the first three sentences, and it is a yearning for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The style should be soft, so the speech speed is a little slow. The emotional expression of the last two sentences reaches a climax, and the speech speed can be slightly faster.
Secondly, the division of rhythm. There is a natural pause between poems, the longest pause between two poems, and a short pause according to emotions in the poem, as follows: If/I am/a blackbird, I will also/sing with a hoarse throat: this land that has been hit by the storm/is always surging/our sorrow/river. It's always windy/annoying/windy. Why/my eyes/often contain tears? Because/I love this land deeply/ ...
The first two verses of poetry have the longest pause time, and the three parts of the first verse should also show obvious pause. At the same time, we should also consider the way to stop, that is, stop and stop. At the end of each poem, if you stop for a long time, you will run out of breath and the sound will stop conveniently. In the middle of the poem, the pause was stopped by Yang, and the pause time was slightly shorter. Although the voice stops and the breath is not exhausted, the voice rises or opens slightly before the pause. For example, in the first sentence, "if" and "I am" are pauses, and "a bird" is a pause.
We should also consider the handling of light and heavy sounds. The following words should be emphasized in the poem: If I were a bird, I would also sing with a hoarse throat: this land has been attacked by a storm, and this river of sadness and indignation will surge over us forever, with the endless angry wind and the incomparable gentle dawn from the forest ...-Then I died, and even my feathers rotted in the land. Why do I often cry? Because I love this land deeply. ...
The use of these accents can cause phonetic changes, highlight the theme and convey the emotion of poetry more accurately. However, pressure can't be understood as simple pressure. Here are some specific explanations. Generally speaking, stress is to increase the volume, stress stress, such as birds, hoarseness, land, rivers, wind, why and tears, is to read these words with a strong breath, increase the volume and make them stand out loudly. But words such as "forever", "endless" and "unparalleled" should be appropriately extended. The words "tenderness", "dawn" and "depth" should be lightly emphasized, resulting in a deep, soft and memorable feeling. The specific performance is to suppress the vocal cords, use strong breath to make the breath louder than the sound, and read the words that need to be stressed softly and forcefully.
Third, the expression is sincere and the posture is free.
When reading aloud, it is helpful to express the reader's feelings with appropriate body language. The reciter must first mobilize his inner feelings, and then reflect them on his expression, especially his eyes, in order to achieve a sound and emotion. Before reading, you can think about the evil of Japan's invasion of China and arouse your love for the motherland and the land. Inner sincerity is in the middle, and outer sincerity is in the outside. When the reciter's heart is filled with sincerity, his eyes will naturally become deep. At first, you might as well look directly at the audience. With the deepening of emotions, eyes will become more and more fierce. When reading the penultimate sentence, you can look around the audience a little, form an echo of questions and answers, and make the reading more infectious.
The use of gestures is also important. At the beginning of reading aloud, your hands can naturally droop, and with the gradual intensity of your emotions, you can naturally wave with one hand, up or down, or open or close, to match the content of the poem. There are no rules here, just be comfortable. At the end of the day, you might as well open your hands and go out naturally to express your infinite affection for the land.
The above is the reading design of the poem "I love this land", and some places can still be handled flexibly according to the reader's understanding of the poem and personal aspirations. But the premise of all skills is sincere emotion, as Rodin said: "Art is emotion." Only by truly understanding the poet's love for the land and his deep feelings of being born in Sri Lanka, singing in Sri Lanka, being buried in Sri Lanka and dying in Sri Lanka can skills be internalized into touching artistic charm.
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The above are some suggestions and skills for reciting this poem, hoping to help your friends.
I think the key issue is to know the skills of reciting, and then organize the whole class to assign reciting.