Literature and English Teaching Class Workshop

Gao JianCollege of English Language and Literature, SISU

Principles of the workshop

Literature orientatedRelevance to the textbookThe highlight of perspectivesThe share of your golden

experience

Contents

Section One: the importance of quotations Section Two: the openness of poetry Section Three: the awareness of cultural

comparison Section Four: the essentials of classics

Section One: the importance of quotations

Why are quotations important?How to choose quotations?How to make full use of the

quotations?

Case Study: College life

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. ---------Emerson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.--------Yeats

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. --------Gallileo

Case Study: College life 1 ） A university is what a college becomes when the

faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi 2 ） What we become depends on what we read after

all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle

3 ） The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. Oscar Wilde

4 ） Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll

5 ） A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt

Case Study: Parents and Children To understand your parents’ love you must raise

children yourself.-------Chinese Proverb As long as you have the blessing of your parents, it

does not matter even if you live in the mountains. ------Greek Proverb

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -----Mark Twain

Case Study: Parents and Children

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde

  Your children are not your children. They are

the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. Kahlil Gibran

Section Two: the openness of poetry

The power of poetryThe length of poetryThe subject of poetry

Section Two: The Sick of Rose

O Rose, thou art sick! 

The invisible worm 

That flies in the night, 

In the howling storm, 

Has found out thy bed 

Of crimson joy: 

And his dark secret love 

Does thy life destroy. 

All Nature is But Art, unknown to thee By Alexander Pope

 

All Nature is But Art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And Spite of pride ， in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear: whatever is, is right.

Section Three: awareness of cultural diversity

One Word is Too Often Profaned by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother; And pity from thee more dear Than that from another.

• I can give not what men call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not, - The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

Section Three: 中国人的爱情观

       夜雨寄北

君问归期未有期，巴山夜雨涨秋池。何当共剪西窗烛，却话巴山夜雨时。

                    月夜  

     今夜鄜州月，闺中只独看。    遥怜小儿女，未解忆长安。    香雾云鬟湿，清辉玉臂寒。     何时倚虚幌，双照泪痕干。

A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love  Percy Bysshe Shelley• A widow bird sate mourning for her Love

Upon a wintry bough;The frozen wind crept on above,The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,No flower upon the ground,And little motion in the airExcept the mill-wheel's sound.

诗中有画，画中有诗

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy EveningRobert Frost• Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.

• My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.

• He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.

•

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope

1   Happy the man, whose wish and care 2      A few paternal acres bound, 3   Content to breathe his native air, 4         In his own ground.

5   Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, 6   Whose flocks supply him with attire, 7   Whose trees in summer yield him shade,

8         In winter fire.

• 9   Blest, who can unconcern'dly find, 10      Hours, days and years slide soft away,

11   In health of body, peace of mind, 12         Quiet by day,

13   Sound sleep by night; study and ease, 14      Together mixt; sweet recreation; 15   And innocence which most does please, 16         With meditation.

17   Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, 18      Thus unlamented let me die, 19   Steal from the world, and not a stone 20         Tell where I lie

归田园居 陶渊明

少无适俗韵，性本爱丘山。误落尘网中，一去三十年。羁鸟恋旧林，池鱼思故渊。开荒南野际，守拙归园田。方宅十馀亩，草屋八九间。榆柳荫后檐，桃李罗堂前。暧暧远人村，依依墟里烟。狗吠深巷中，鸡鸣桑树巅。户庭无尘杂，虚室有馀闲。久在樊笼里，复得返自然。

Section Four: why classics?

◎ 阅读活动的三个层次一般层次 → 认知性阅读：       What does it mean? 较高层次 → 评判性阅读：      How does it mean (what it means)?更高层次 → 鉴赏性阅读：       How does the text acquire its meaning? Why is it valued as it is? 鉴赏性阅读是评判性阅读的延伸与拓展

Section Four: Case Studies

The Importance of One’s Own Language. John Locke

The definition of A Gentleman John Henry Newman

Companionship of Books Samuel Smiles

Beauty

Knowledge and Progress

My Days Henry David Thoreau

Thank you for your participation.