Teaching objectives
1. Combining reading aloud and close reading; combining semantic analysis of chapters with explanations of natural common sense; training students’ ability to imagine freely;
2 , guide students to love nature and revere life.
3. Independent learning and inquiry, teacher-student interaction.
Important and difficult points in teaching:
The connection between the understanding of passionate love in poetry and the deep love of the motherland
Teaching hours: Two hours
Lesson 1 (Song of Waves)
1. Text Introduction
Introduction to the poet Gibran (1883～1931).
Lebanese poet, essayist, and painter. Born in Bousheli, a mountainous town in northern Lebanon. When he was 12 years old, he went to Boston, USA with his mother. Two years later, he returned to his motherland and studied Arabic, French and painting at the Shikma (Wisdom) School in Beirut. During his studies, he founded the magazine "Truth" with a radical attitude. In 1908, he published the novel "The Rebellious Soul", which angered the authorities. His works were banned and burned, and he was expelled and went to the United States again. Later he went to France to study painting and sculpture at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, and was awarded by the art master Rodin. He returned to Boston in 1911 and moved to New York the following year to live permanently and engage in literary and artistic creation activities until his death.
Gibran mainly wrote novels in his youth. After settling in the United States, he gradually turned to writing prose poems. Almost all of his novels are written in Arabic, including the short story collection "The Prairie Bride" (1905), "The Rebellious Soul" and the novel "Broken Wings" (1911). "Broken Wings" describes the tragic fate of oriental women and their hard struggle with fate, condemns greed, cunning and submission, and praises self-esteem, will and strength. His novels win with the philosophical monologues, dialogues and narrations of the protagonists, especially the passionate outpourings of the oppressed and harmed. His published works in Arabic include the prose "Musical Short Chapters" (1905), the prose poetry collections "Tears and Laughter" (1913), "The Tempest" (1920), the poetry collection "Hymns of Processions" (1918), and "Tips" "Talk with Fun" (1923), "Whispering with the Soul" (1927), etc.
The first work he wrote in English was the collection of essays "The Madman" (1918). After that, Lu Ji published prose poetry collections "Pioneer" (1920), "Prophet" (1923), "Sand and Foam" (1926), "Jesus the Son of Man" (1928), "The Garden of the Prophet" (1931), "The Wanderer" ", etc., as well as the poetic dramas "Gods of the Earth", "Lazarus and His Lover", etc. "The Prophet" is considered his masterpiece. The author discusses love and beauty, life and death, marriage and family, work and happiness, law and freedom, reason and passion, good and evil and religion in the way of a wise man's farewell words. A series of life and social issues, full of metaphors and philosophy, with an oriental flavor. Kahlil Gibran also drew his own illustrations full of romantic sentiment and profound meaning.
Kahlil Gibran believed that the duty of a poet is to sing "the song in the mother's heart". His works mostly take "love" and "beauty" as themes, expressing deep feelings and lofty ideals through bold imagination and symbolic techniques. His thoughts were greatly influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy. His works often reveal a cynical attitude or express some mysterious power. He was the first writer to use prose poetry in the history of modern Arab literature. He also organized and led the famous Arab overseas literary group PEN and made significant contributions to the development of new Arabic literature. His works have been translated into many languages ????around the world and are welcomed by readers from all over the world. The first work of his to be introduced to China was "The Prophet" (translated by Bing Xin, 1931). Since the 1950s, his other works have gradually become known to Chinese readers.
2. Perception of reading aloud
Read the full text aloud, paying attention to the emotion and rhythm.
Combination of collective reading and free reading.
Look for the rhyme of this poem (prose poems do not strictly follow rhyme, and change rhyme between paragraphs):
Stanza 1: person, near (neighbor rhyme), point;
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The second stanza: Chen, Meng, Zhong, Yin, Kiss (mostly neighbor rhymes);
The third stanza: Ao, impatience, heart;
Chapter Section 4: He, next.
3. Perceive the connotation of the text
In this prose poem, the waves are given the image of a romantic flower by the poet. It first appears as the lover of the "coast". In the first four stanzas, the image of a woman in love is laid out, inseparable from her lover in the rhythm of the recurring tide. Next, this feminine image blended into a deeper metaphorical meaning. It became the guardian of a person's world. It's quiet at night, everything is sleeping in sleep, but I stay up all night?, composed of stars, mermaids, rocks and lovers. In the picture, it emits an eternal roar, sometimes singing. Sometimes he sighs?, and the singing of the waves is also the sigh of the waves.
Therefore, we can understand the connotation of the love of the waves in the poem. It is not only the love for the coast, but also the broader love for all things in the world. This broad love Shining with the brilliance of motherhood?
The true meaning of love is to be awake. Because I love this world, even if I am haggard after staying up all night, I must protect this world, its harmony and its harmony. The beauty.
Here, we see the image of the poet himself. The poet should be the guardian of all the beautiful values ??in this world. As written at the end of the poem: This is my life; this is my whole life. work?, here, the image of the waves has been transformed into the poet's own firm voice.
The image of waves in the poem is extremely touching. She is passionately in love with her lover, and her love is deep and passionate. At dawn, she vowed to be loyal to her lover; in the evening, she sang a prayer for love. When the tide rises, she is enthusiastic and hugs her lover tightly; when the tide recedes, she is unable to separate and throws herself at the couple's feet with attachment. Faced with her sincere and passionate love, Coast was extremely grateful. He kissed her and tolerated her "willfulness". But the "reef" connected to the coast did not sympathize with her or understand her. No matter how she flattered, smiled, or poured out her heart to him, she always pretended to be deaf and mute and ignored him. His attitude made Hailang feel sad and distressed. In the silent night, everything on earth was sleeping soundly surrounded by the God of Sleep, but she was the only one who tossed and turned, unable to sleep peacefully. However, her love affair has not diminished, nor has her faith in love been shaken. She is determined to spend the years like this as long as she has her breath left, showing her infinite loyalty. The attitude of the waves towards the coast is also a reflection of the poet's deep love for the motherland.
In addition to having human characteristics and being able to express the poet's emotions well, waves also have the characteristics of waves. Such as her "willfulness", never being able to calm her mind, her emotional changes in the morning and dusk, her inconsistent behavior when the tide rises and falls, etc.
IV. Question Exploration
? Wow! Staying up all night makes me feel haggard. Even though I am full of love, the true meaning of love is sobriety. ?The use of connectives here seems to be unconventional?
That is indeed the case. This is where prose poetry differs from lyrical prose. Here, use "however" or "however" to replace "even if", which is semantically clearer and grammatically more standard. However, ?even if?, at least has a clear emphasis in Chinese. Used here, the meaning of the text is tightened, so the effect not only obtains a certain turning point, but also makes this paragraph richer and more powerful at the semantic level. Connected with the end of the poem, it highlights an image of the poet that is similar to our familiar image of "never regretting despite nine deaths".
5. Assign homework: Complete school-based homework.
The second lesson (Song of Rain)
1. Read and reflect repeatedly
2. Reflect on the text
The meaning of this prose poem Mostly, the image of rain is that of a devotee and messenger. It nourishes all things and at the same time connects distant things (?messenger of love?). What is worth noting is the flexible use of personification techniques in the poem: on the one hand, the personification of rain, starting from the third stanza "I cry", which triggers a series of related images?
< p> Flowers, grass, clouds, fields, etc. are personified accordingly. On the one hand, the image of rain is also changing from time to time, or the angle of personification is different, or it is subtly converted from personification to objectification, such as verse 6: I rise from the lake. Starting from the beginning, soaring and traveling on the wings of ether, it seems to have acquired the image of a bird. In addition, in addition to the specific objects in nature, some abstract things are often personified, such as the second verse: Early morning. The morning when the daughter is sleeping, and the death in the fifth stanza: "The arms of the silent God of Death", can be said to be applied to the invisible.The sense of space in the article is still broad and vast, with heaven and earth, thunder and lightning, clouds and rain, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas everywhere. However, due to the extensive use of anthropomorphic means, the world in the article has become a "human realm". However, it wasn't until the appearance of "Glass on the Window" and "Sensitive Heart" in the seventh section that the human world was truly introduced.
It turns out that all things have animism only because of the existence of human beings, or to be more precise, because of the existence of spiritual people. With their gaze, all things can show their human mood. Their listening and the beating of raindrops constitute a kind of music.
It is also because of the existence of people that rain has acquired a new identity as a messenger? In the gurgling rain, our sensitive hearts are often led to touch those memories that are often far away from us. , dreams, a profound spiritual world.
In nature, rain means a cycle, just as love means a cycle in the human world. It nourishes life, transmits the energy of life, and makes it endless. The world in Gibran's prose poems is always in motion. Sighs, tears and smiles are just aspects of the movement process of the human world, and nature is a moving mirror of the human world.
3. Question Exploration
1. What kinds of images does the author use to describe rain in a short space?
Silver thread, pearl, conveying emotion The messenger, the sigh of the sea, the tears of the sky, the smile of the fields.
2. What are the characteristics of the image of rain? What does the author sing about through rain?
Rain is a devotee and messenger, praising selfless love and dedication.
3. What do you understand? The same is true for human life: it begins under the iron hoof of domineering matter and ends in the arms of the calm death? What does this sentence mean?
(Open question, free to understand)
4. Why? I? Cry, but the mountains and rivers are rejoicing? Answer according to the meaning of the third paragraph.
When it rains, the river water rises, which can water the fields, flowers and plants.
5. Summarize the content of paragraphs 1-4 in one sentence.
The rain moistens the earth.
6. Explain the meaning of "kiss" and "hug" in the sixth paragraph.
Refers to rain watering flowers, plants and trees.
7. What technique does this prose poem use? What feelings does the poet express?
It uses personification to express the poet’s love and affection for nature and life. Praise from devotees.
4. Read the text again and explain the homework
5. Assign homework: complete the lesson exercises
6. Reflection on teaching: