Understanding Poems: Reciting, Inspiring Imaginations, and Awaking to Cultural Implications——Exploration on the Teaching of Chinese Classic Poems

Classic poetry belongs in the literary canon of the Chinese nation, embedded in which is the of its mood, thought, language, and culture reflected. To bring the out to students, teachers, while teaching these poems, need to instruct students about how to recite them. The recitation of classic poetry, because of the unconventional gracefullness and beautiful mood conveyed by its language, is different from that of other genres of writing. To grasp the essence of poems entails imagination, emotional experience, and cultural awareness while reciting. Therefore, to understand a poem better involves the following steps: first, to inspire imagination concentrating on the images employed while reciting; second, to recite poems of different subject matters so that their cuhural implications can be understood naturally. Following the steps, students can swim in the ocean of poems, grasp the sentiment, love, and beauty contained and resultantly achieve humane elevation.