Внеклассное занятие: Романтизм в английской литературе: творчество английских поэтов-романтиков, представителей «Озёрной школы». (для учащихся 9-11 классов).
Дата проведения: 29.03. 2015г.
Тема внеклассного занятия: Романтизм в английской литературе: творчество английских поэтов-романтиков, представителей «Озёрной школы» (Уильям Вордсворт, Семюэль Тейлор Кольридж.)
Цели урока:
Учебная: знакомство с понятием “романтизм” в литературе, знакомство с английскими поэтами-романтиками, представителями «Озёрной школы», с особенностью поэтики романтической литературы.
Воспитательная: воспитывать эстетический вкус, поддерживать
интерес к изучению предмета и культуры страны изучаемого языка, формировать толерантность и уважение к представителям других народов и культур.
Развивающая: совершенствовать общеучебные умения и навыки, формировать фонематический слух и произносительные навыки, развивать память, навыки анализа и синтеза, развитие чувства эстетики, совершенствовать навык выступления перед аудиторией и умение грамотно излагать свои мысли.
Оснащение:
мультимедийный проектор
Ход урока:
Сообщение темы и цели занятия.
Английская литература начала XIX столетия. Краткая характеристика романтизма. Рассказ об «Озёрном крае».
Английские писатели-романтики, представители «Озёрной школы»: Уильям Вордсворт, Сэмюель Кольридж.
а) Краткая биография Уильяма Вордсворта (просмотр фильма), беседа по фильму.
Темы поэзии Вордсворта:
- стихотворения о природе: «Кукушка», «Нарциссы», «Бабочка», чтение стихотворений.
- стихотворения о человеческой жизни: «Одинокая жница»,
«Созданьем зыбкой красоты…», «Нас манит суеты избитый
путь…», чтение стихотворений, краткий анализ стихотворений.
б) Сэмюель Кольридж, основные моменты его творчества (просмотр фильма), беседа по фильму.
Кольридж и Вордсворт – сборник «Лирические баллады».
Тематика стихотворений Кольриджа:
- стихотворения-беседы: «Ответ на вопрос ребёнка»,
«Полуночный мороз», чтение стихотворений.
- демонические стихотворения: «Кубла Хан», чтение
cтихотворения, краткий анализ стихотворений Кольриджа.
Подведение итогов. «Что такое романтизм?» (просмотр фильма). Беседа по фильму. Выставление оценок.
Good Morning! Today we’re going to talk about Romanticism, which is known as artistic, literary, and intellectual movement ruled from the late 18th century and through the 19th century. This movement can be regarded as a result of two great historical events: The Industrial Revolution in England and The French Bourgeois revolution of 1789 which had a great influence on the cultural life of the country.
In this Romantic Age the individual person was valued over the society, imagination was valued over logic and the natural was valued over the artificial.
Some of them were revolutionary: they denied the existing order, called upon the people to struggle for a better future, shared the people’s desire for liberty and objected to colonial oppression. They supported the national liberation wars on the continent against feudal reaction. Such writers were George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly and John Keats.
Others had welcomed the French Revolution at first and slogan of liberty, fraternity and equality but later abandoned their revolutionary ideas.
This Romantic Movement is represented in Britain by poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge later called (Lakists) Lake School of Poets. Lake School was called after the Lakeland (or the Lake District) in northern England where these poets spent much of their time and whose beauties they described in their poems.
Many people say that The Lake District is the most beautiful place in England. Its mountains, valleys, and lakes have inspired generations of poets, writers and painters. The Lake District attracts many thousands of people every year, yet it’s peaceful and quiet and you can easily find yourself alone among outstanding natural beauty. There are 16 lakes and about 100 mountains in the Lake District, including the highest mountain in England, Scaffel Pike, and the largest Lake Windermere.
In 1951, the Lake District was made a national park to protect it for future generations, so there is a special control over the area to make sure that its beauty is not spoiled.
And now back to our Lake poets. So William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the two most important romantic poets. We’ll start with William Wordsworth. Let’s learn some facts from his biography.
Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798.
Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
The most characteristic themes of Wordsworth’s poetry were the defense of the common country people, their feelings and beliefs, the beauty of nature. Wordsworth’s poetry which on the first glace might be viewed as the simple nature poetry has a great great deal of strength going on beneath that apparently simple nature exterior.
Let’s listen to some poems about nature.
The first one is “To the Cuckoo”, and this one will be performed by….
The next poem is Wordsworth’s famous “Daffodils”. The poem will be recited by…….
The third poem about nature is “To a butterfly” is going to be recited by…….
And now poems about the life of common country people, their feelings and beliefs:
“The Solitary Reaper” will be performed by……..
2. Our next poem is “She was a Phantom of Delight” and this one will be read by…... - This beautiful poem, published in 1807 was written about William Wordsworth's wife Mary Hutchinson, whom he married in 1802. They were good friends and knew each other since their school days.
3.The last poem about people is “The World is too much with us” will be recited by……. In this poem the speaker accuses the modern age of having lost its connection to nature and to everything.
And one more poem by Wordsworth “My heart leaps up” is an ideal example of his strength and of his philosophy. “The Child is Father of the Man” – the line which relates most to his poetry.
Wordsworth thought that young people were in contact with something. When they saw those beautiful things in Nature: a rainbow, a forest, a deer, a butterfly, whatever, they made this contact with the Universal, with Humanity and he holds this feeling just for a moment and then it is gone, everything faints. It is as children we come to the world and as children have this great connection to the Universe and as we get older we loose that connection. Wordsworth thought it was up to poets in this case to maintain the connection to remain open to the Universe, to Nature, to feel our connection with the Universal and the Iternal.
By piety for nature we live – it is the heart of Wordsworth.
I hope you’ve enjoyed and will enjoy if you read more Wordsworth’s poetry. It is very powerful if you look at it carefully.
And now Samuel Taylor Coleridge the second most important romantic poet we are going to talk about. Let’s learn some facts from his biography.
Wordsworth created simple poems about common people in ordinary settings. Coleridge on the other hand explored exotic and supernatural things.
Coleridge believed that a strong, active imagination could become a vehicle for transcending (going above) unpleasant circumstances. Many of his poems are powered exclusively by imaginative flights, wherein the speaker temporarily abandons his immediate surroundings, exchanging them for an entirely new and completely fabricated experience.
Both Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that everyday language and speech rhythms would help broaden poetry’s audience to include the middle and lower classes. Many of his poems openly address a single figure—the speaker’s wife, son, friend, and so on—who listens silently to the simple, straightforward language of the speaker.
Let’s listen to some of his conversational poems.
“An answer to a child’s question” will be recited by…….
Our next poem is his famous “A Frost at Midnight” will be performed by …….. and……….
Here, the speaker sits quietly by a fire, musing on his life, while his infant son sleeps nearby. He recalls his boarding school days, during which he would both daydream and lull himself to sleep by remembering his home far away from the city, and he tells his son that he shall never be removed from nature, the way the speaker once was. Unlike the speaker, the son shall experience the seasons and shall learn about God by discovering the beauty and bounty of the natural world. The son shall be given the opportunity to develop a relationship with God and with nature, an opportunity denied to both the speaker and Coleridge himself. For Coleridge, nature had the capacity to teach joy, love, freedom, and piety, crucial characteristics for a worthy, developed individual.
And now Coleridge’s Demonic Poem “Kubla Khan” will be performed by…….
Like the other romantics, Coleridge worshiped nature and believed that poetry should describe the beauty of the natural world. Nature for him is strange, impulsive and mysterious. Nearly all of Coleridge’s poems express a respect for and delight in natural beauty. For Coleridge, nature has the capacity to teach joy, love, freedom, and piety, crucial characteristics for a worthy, developed individual.
To sum it all up let’s try to understand: What is romanticism? Do you consider yourself to be romantic? What do you define as romantic? Let’s see the reel.
Philosophically, Romanticism is a crusade to glorify man’s existence; psychologically it is experienced simply as a desire to make life more interesting – Ann Rand.
Romanticism is not just a style of art… Romanticism is a style of life…
And now our lesson on Romanticism has come to an end. Next time we are going to talk about critical realism: Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot are at our next Tuesday class. Let me thank everybody for participation. (Their good job!) I hope everybody has enjoyed Wordsworth and Coleridge’s poetry. My special thanks to K.Z. for being a computer operator and making such an outstanding presentation.
Счастье жизни состоит из мельчайших кусочков – маленьких, быстро забывающихся знаков внимания, как, например, поцелуй или улыбка, добрый взгляд или искренние пожелания. (Кольридж)
Постигайте суть вещей, пусть природа будет вашим учителем. (Вордсворт)
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