A Comparative Study Of Li Bai And Du Fu's Poetry Teaching

Ancient Poetry is the very precious treasure in classical literature of China.Learning ancient poetry can help a lot in calculating students’ language accomplishment,aesthetic taste and comprehensive ability.Among numerous ancient poets,boasting the strong inventive ability and the exclusive artistic style,Li Bai and Du Fu are called “Poetic Genius” and “Poem Saint” respectively.The enormous pedagogic value can be found in the huge amount of poems of theirs selected in the Chinese textbook.As we all know,as the representative of romanticism and realism respectively,the masterpieces of Li Bai and Du Fu have a lot of differences,which,however,have not been noticed by most of teachers who teach Chinese.Compared with using distinctive teaching methods,they usually teach the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu in the same manner.In this case,the students cannot find the unique beauty of their poems,and have little interest in learning them.Considering their important status in ancient poetry and the problem occurred in the poem teaching,from the perspective of comparison,this thesis compares both the problems occurred in poem teaching of Li Bai and Du Fu.This thesis consists of five parts,including the introduction,three chapters and the conclusion,in which the second and third chapter enjoy great significance.The first chapter makes a brief introduction of the pedagogic value and the current teaching situation of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu,the value of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu has been clarified in the perspectives of language accomplishment,aesthetic taste and comprehensive ability.Meanwhile,the current teaching situation has been investigated via self-made questionnaire,and the teaching and learning problem has been diagnosed from the result analysis.The second chapter compares the classification and artistic style of Li Bai and Du Fu in Chinese textbook published by People’s Education,and how many poems and what kind of style of the two poets are selected in this textbook.The third chapter introduces the teaching strategies of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu,which is the most important chapter in the thesis.This chapter is divided into two parts: the comparison of the Reading Aloud Teaching Method and of the Poem Appreciation Method in teaching the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu.What’s more,the latter is further divided into three parts,namely,the comparative teaching of the artistic style of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu,the comparative teaching of poetry writing background of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu,the appreciation teaching of language style of the poems made by Li Bai and Du Fu.The main research method in this chapter is comparative method by enlightening numerous samples to make specific analysis.