Poetry is ecstatic wisdom. Gibran
I wrote this article because of a sentence from my cousin.
That day, my cousin and I went to eat chicken soup and rice noodles. The boss selling rice noodles attracted me at once, because he was so special that he didn't look like a rice seller, but rather like an artist. A middle-aged man, white and clean, with a small ponytail, makes rice noodles in that state, which feels like creating art.
"He used to be an artist." I said to my cousin.
"It's possible." Cousin said: "If a person is influenced by art, even if he sells rice noodles, he can sell them differently, because his artistic taste will not dissipate."
My cousin's words echoed in my heart for a long time.
I think, when facing the sunflower, a person who has never seen Van Gogh's Sunflower feels different from a person who has seen Van Gogh's Sunflower. This is the power of art.
Now let's go back to the question of why children read poetry. This question is actually two questions: What kind of children's poems do children like? What benefits can reading poetry bring to children?
1. What kind of children's poems do children like?
I believe that most parents and teachers have had this experience. When you read poems to your children, they are usually not interested. They will say, why don't you read me a story? I like listening to stories. Why is this happening? Children's poetry exists as a branch of children's literature, which means it has its own value. Parents, teachers and children's poetry creators all hope that children can read poetry, but in fact, children's enthusiasm for reading poetry is not very high.
So, should adults think about what kind of poetry can attract children? Only by attracting children first and making them fall in love with reading poetry can children experience the fun of reading poetry and benefit from it.
There is no one in this world who doesn't like stories. People love stories by nature. _ _ propaganda doctrine is also in the form of stories, so the Bible can be read as a story of right and wrong. Buddhism preaches Buddhism in the form of stories, so even people who don't believe in Buddhism like to read short stories full of Zen. In front of the story, people naturally lost all resistance.
Then, before thinking about what kind of poetry can attract children, we might as well think about why children like to listen to stories. It is said that when God created man, he buried his curiosity in his heart. Children like to listen to stories precisely because the strange world in the stories satisfies their curiosity. Although Perot's fairy tales in France and Grimm's fairy tales in Germany are not specially written for children, they are deeply loved by children because of their magical stories (strangeness not found in real life). It can be seen that strangeness is an important factor to attract children to read. Warren wrote in Understanding Poetry that a poem is like a little drama. What is drama? It is a strange flower, rooted in the soil of life and blooming. Even the most common daily things should be viewed from a new perspective, instead of simply copying life scenes and simply expressing life feelings. This is strangeness. Coleridge, an English poet, once said that his goal in writing poetry was to endow everyday things with magic.
Is it because our children's poems lack strangeness that children are not interested in reading them?
Let's read the following two poems first:
Dandelion dream song
I am a little dandelion.
I come from the arms of Mother Earth.
The one that took off
A dream with wings
On my wings
And the light of the sun
The brilliance of the moon and stars.
And rivers, lakes and forests.
Silently look forward to that deep feeling.
I am a banana.
I like planting.
Growing up is always so lively.
One by one, a string
Hanging together to form a yellow glove.
I'm still dressed in green.
People are in a hurry to take it off.
I travel in cool and comfortable cabins and carriages.
When you met me,
I have put on a golden coat.
People don't always like bananas.
If someone unfortunately steps on my coat,
He's bound to slip.
Shout loudly in the mouth
The same theme is "What is it?" The first poem is well written. Images of the earth, the sun, the moon, stars, rivers and lakes appear in the poem. The poet gives dandelion a sense of beauty from a personal perspective, and what is passed on to children is more about the poet's own feelings. The second song is about bananas. The poet adopted a child's perspective. Bananas grow on trees, are picked and transported to all parts of the country for sale, and the skins of bananas are eaten and thrown away. This is the complete life course of bananas. There are no beautiful words or abstract spiritual symbols in the poem. They are the most vivid language, but they are full of movement, as if watching a short cartoon.
There is no doubt that children almost instinctively like the second poem. Because the second poem gives new fun and magic to everyday things.
As Paul wrote in Books, Children and Adults, children need writers who are interested in things themselves. For children, the daily life they are most familiar with is what they are interested in, but this does not mean that it is enough to describe daily life or describe life after psychotherapy. Children like poems that can give magic to things they are interested in.
2. What benefits can reading poetry bring to children?
Let's imagine such a scene first. Facing the sparkling West Lake, a child who has read Su Shi's Drinking Rain after Chu Qing and a child who has not read Su Shi's Drinking Rain after Chu Qing have different feelings in his heart and the language flashed in his mind. A child who has read it will have a magical power to sew poetry and life together. "The water is bright and sunny, the mountains and the sky are rainy" will unconsciously blend into her spiritual temperament; Children who haven't read it may just say excitedly, "Ah, the West Lake is so beautiful!" " "
If poetry can educate people, what poetry can give children is the world outlook. The world outlook here refers to what kind of eyes children should look at the world they live in.
Parents and teachers who want their children to read poetry do not expect their children to learn to write poetry and become poets by reading poetry, but hope that their children can have a poetic world and gain a new way and angle to look at the world.
English poetess Enoch? Fagin once wrote What is Poetry.
What is poetry?
What is poetry? Who knows?
Roses are not poems, but the fragrance of roses is poems;
The sky is not a poem, the skylight is a poem;
Flies are not poems, but the bright flashes on flies are poems;
The sea is not poetry, but the breath of the sea is poetry;
I'm not a poem, which makes me
Poetry is the language of seeing, hearing and perceiving some meanings that prose can't express.
But what is poetry? Who knows?
Poetess uses language to explore what poetry is. "The fragrance of roses, the skylight, the brightness of flies and the breath of the sea" is exactly what the poet wants to give his readers. Poetry gives people not only a real world, but also a real feeling of people facing this world.
Facing the sea, people who read poetry can hear the "breath of the sea".
Looking up at the sky, people who read poetry can see the eternal "skylight".
Author: Hong
WeChat official account: kite reading and writing.
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