Yesterday, the front page of this newspaper reported that Jin Naijia, a student of Shanghai School for the Blind, won the first prize of the second "Bing Xin Composition Award" National High School Students' Composition Competition with a poem "Love". Many readers and teachers called, not only praising this award-winning poem, but also opposing the decline of poetry teaching in primary and secondary schools, and opposing the prohibition of writing poetry in Chinese composition in senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination.

Poetry needs to be written with heart.

After reading Jin Naijia's Love, many readers said that Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Cambridge is very meaningful. Indeed, Jin Naijia has been devoted to poetry creation for many years. Although her eyesight is only 0. 1, she insists on reading a lot of famous books with a magnifying glass. When he was a child, his mother read him poems and told him fairy tales every day. After arriving at the school for blind children, influenced by the Chinese teacher's teaching methods, Jin Naijia fell in love with poetry reading and writing. In Xiaojin's memory, his mother took him by plane for the first time, "saw" the sea for the first time and took the maglev train for the first time. He felt it with his heart and recorded it with poetry. While studying in a blind school, Xiaojin also founded a poetry publication with poetry lovers among his classmates. If he is inspired, he will improvise several poems a day.

Reading and appreciating poetry is indispensable.

Peng Shiqiang, a special-grade Chinese teacher attached to the Middle School of Shanghai Normal University, who has always admired poetry teaching, feels that there are very few teenagers who can write poems with heart like Jin Naijia, and even fewer who can write poems with youthful characteristics like love. Teacher Peng said that the current situation of poetry teaching in primary and secondary schools is rather sad. Only because Chinese composition can't write poetry in the entrance examination, so "don't take the exam, don't teach, don't learn, don't read", poetry gradually away from teenagers.

Teacher Peng said that although modern poetry and ancient poetry have been added to the Chinese textbooks of the "second phase curriculum reform", some teachers and students often only pay attention to the mechanical explanation of words and phrases, but ignore the appreciation of poetry. Recently, Mr. Peng conducted a research on the topic of "Reading poetry with sound, emotion and effectiveness" in many middle schools in Xuhui District. "It is not to teach students to write poetry, but to cultivate their literary literacy of loving and appreciating poetry."

It is suggested to write college entrance examination poems.

Some readers called and said that the national unified examination syllabus for college enrollment requires that "you can write articles in common genres such as narratives, argumentations and expositions". Obviously, this "common genre" should include poetry, but writing poetry is basically forbidden in Chinese compositions in college entrance examination and senior high school entrance examination. Wang Guangzu, a senior reviewer of college entrance examination Chinese and a professor of Chinese Department of East China Normal University, said that this may be because the proposer found it difficult to grasp the grading criteria. In fact, although poetry and drama are "common genres", they are not necessarily suitable for exam composition. Huang Yufeng, a special Chinese teacher in Fudan High School, said that it is a pity to ignore poetry in Chinese teaching, which is not conducive to the improvement of students' overall Chinese literacy, and it is also imprudent to exclude poetry from the composition examination.