Part A
Directions:
Your friend Mary is ill. Write a letter to her to show your sympathy. The following guide- lines are for your writing:
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Iris" instead. You do not need to write the address. ( 10 points)
No poem should ever be discussed or "analyzed", until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling "interpretation" of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting (背诵) it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it, if there isn’t time for both. I thin
A. discuss it with others.
B. analyze it by oneself.
C. copy it down in a notebook.
D. practise reading it aloud.
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