grow on the high branches of trees, and laughingly sway in the air,
and dance on the new leaves, would you recognize me, mother?
And if you call out, "Where are you, my son?"
I laughed in secret, but not a word.
I will quietly open my petals and watch you work.
When you bathe, with your wet hair on your shoulders, and walk through the shade of the golden flowers
to the little courtyard where you say your prayers, you will smell the flowers,
without realizing that the scent comes from me.
When you have lunch, you sit by the window and read the Ramayana.
When the shadow of the tree fell on your hair and knees,
I was going to cast my tiny shadow on your pages,
right where you were reading.
But would you guess that this is your child's little shadow?
When you take the lamp to the cowshed at dusk,
I shall suddenly fall to the ground again,
and become your child again, begging you to tell me stories.
"Where have you been, you bad boy?"
"I won't tell you, mom."
That's what you and I had to say then.
The Golden Flower is short but rich in meaning. It expresses the love of family and the beauty and holiness of human nature.
If I became a golden flower, for fun, growing on the high branches of the tree, laughing and swaying in the air, and dancing among the new leaves, mom, would you recognize me?
The first paragraph is a hypothetical, "If I became a golden flower", which gives rise to imagination - a magical child "hide and seek" with his mother.
If you call out, "Where are you, child?" I secretly laughed there, but did not say a word.
This paragraph to a mischievous child's tone, in a child's unique way to show the feelings of the mother, constituting a picture of children playing, why "I" so happy, so naive, so lively, so lovely? Because I am bathed in my mother's love.
[Edit Paragraph]Overall grasp
This prose poem, let us feel the mother and child love, feel the love of mother and child, that kind of intimacy, that kind of intimacy. Why is the child so happy, so innocent, so lively, so lovely? Because he is bathed in mother's love. Love is the exchange. The child receives the mother's love, but also thinks of how to return the mother's love. He thinks of becoming a golden flower, so that his mother can smell the fragrance of the flower, so that she can read books without hurting her eyes. From the child's love for his mother, one can think of the mother's love for her child.
[Edit]Problem Study
1. Why does the author imagine the child as a golden flower?
We in China like to compare children with flowers, and so does India. Rabindranath Tagore imagined the child as a golden flower, the most beautiful flower on the most beautiful sacred tree, praising the child for its loveliness. That golden color is reflecting the glory of a mother's love. People love flowers, flowers also benefit people, can symbolize the child's desire to return the love of the mother. Tagore's imagination is really novel and wonderful.
2. Why does the child want to become a golden flower, and again and again do not let his mother know?
The child's wish can be understood by looking at what he does for his mother. The child always wants to do something for his mother, to become a golden flower, can watch his mother work, can let his mother smell the fragrance of the flowers, can be projected on the mother reading read. The child understands that the mother's love is selfless, and the return of the mother's love should also be selfless, he does not want his mother to praise, but to live a more cozy life. So he is just pampered, that is, hidden from his mother.
3. Why does the mom meet and say "you bad boy"?
Above, the mom called out, "Son, where are you?" You can imagine, missing the child, how anxious mom, this panic must be increasing with each passing day, and once seen, surprised and happy, natural tsk blame the child.
[Edit Paragraph]Teaching Design
(A) literacy and writing
Stash (nì) hide: not let people know.
Pray (dǎo) to pray: to pray to God for blessings.
衍(yǎn)
(2) The Golden Flower
1. Read aloud.
2. Talk about the overall feeling.
3. Content discussion.
(1) Why did the author imagine the child as a golden flower?
(2) Why does the child want to become a golden flower? Why did he keep it a secret from his mother?
(3) When the mother sees the child, why does she say, "You bad boy"? What was the tone?
(4) Read aloud with feeling and memorize
[edit paragraph]Related Information
I. Introduction of the Author
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian writer, poet and social activist. He was born in a landlord's family. He studied in England and founded the International University in Santinigaon in 1921. He wrote in Bengali and was a prolific writer throughout his life. His early works include the collection of poems "Twilight Songs", "Morning Songs", and the plays "The Abbot", "The King and the Queen", etc. From 1903, he published the full-length novels "Little Sandy", "Shipwrecked" and "Gora", the plays "Moghidottara", "Post Office" and "Red Oleander", the collection of poems "Gitanjali", "New Moon", "Gardener's Collection", "The Collection of Flycatchers", as well as many short and medium-sized novels. Expressing sympathy for the miserable life of the lower classes and the painful situation of women under British colonial rule, they condemn feudalism and the caste system, depict the arbitrariness of the imperialists and bureaucrats, and at the same time reflect the resistance of bourgeois democratic ideas to orthodox Hinduism. The poems are fresh and national in tone, but with a mystical and sentimental flavor. He also specialized in composition and painting. The song composed, "The Will of the People", was made the national anthem of India in 1950. His compositions had a great influence on the development of Indian literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. (From the Dictionary, 1999 revised edition)
Second, the twofold interpretation of the Golden Flower (Liu Zhenfu)
The Golden Flower is short in length and rich in meaning, and is a masterpiece in Tagore's collection of prose poems, the Crescent Moon Collection. Written in a hypothetical - "if I became a golden flower" (first line), which gives rise to imagination - a magical child and his mother "Hide-and-seek" constitutes an intriguing picture of family love and the beauty and holiness of human nature. Such a picture can be viewed from a variety of perspectives, speculating on different meanings.
At first glance, we see a picture of children playing in front of us. The center of the picture is "I" - a clever and lovely child. "On a whim, I turn into a golden flower and play with my mother three times in one day. The first time I played with my mother was when she was praying, quietly opening the petals of the flower to emit fragrance; the second time I played with my mother was when she was reading the Ramayana, casting my shadow on the pages of the book she was reading; and the third time I played with my mother was when she was going to the cowshed with a lamp and suddenly jumped in front of her to regain my original form. "I am "missing" for a day, but I am always with my mother. "I" was innocent and childish, but hid his own secret, only his mother did not know, and finally his mother asked "where have you been", he said "I will not tell you", this is a triumphant and kindly This is the successful and well-intentioned "lie". In the end, he said "I won't tell you", which was a deliberate and good-natured "lie". When we look at it carefully, the strange behavior of "I" is a deep-seated attachment to my mother: the aroma is a secret expression of attachment to my mother; casting shadows on the pages of the book that my mother reads is to shade her from the sun, and it is also a secret expression of attachment to my mother. In short, I am expressing my feelings for my mother in a way unique to children.
Although the work is short, it has a complete plot, and the plot development has waves. Characters in the development of the plot in the development of its character: "I" is naive, lively, witty "sly", but also innate goodness; mother is quiet, pious, but also goodness, love. Kindness and goodwill are the main theme of the mother and son's character, while "my" "treachery" and mother's "deception" are "discordant" with the main theme. "to produce some subtle changes, creating a strong interest.
Reading so far, we have appreciated the rich, interesting poetic flavor of the poem. However, if Tagore's creation of poetic meaning is limited to this, it is not Tagore; Tagore is higher than ordinary poets, it is in the ordinary poet's feeling and thinking stops where he can also move forward to the depths of the further, into the realm of the wonderful understanding of the realm, into the realm of the "into the God". "Poetry and into God, to the end, to the end, scorn to add" (Yan Yu, "Canglang Poetry"). If we look deeper and farther into the Golden Flower, we will have more surprising discoveries.
What we see in front of us is another picture of the manifestation of the gods. The center of the picture is still "I" - a lively and lovely elf. This little elf has an omnipotent divinity. When it moves its mind, it turns into a golden flower; the golden flower is blooming on the sacred tree in India, and the poet's chanting of this flower originally contains devotion to God and creates a religious atmosphere. (In addition, the mother, a devoutly religious person, maintains a calm and serene disposition, which also brings some religious atmosphere to the poem.) The elf can go up and down, sway at will, dance at will, blossom at will, and emit fragrance at will. At the end of the day, with a single movement of the mind, it becomes human again. It has unlimited freedom in what it does, and is not comparable to a mortal body on earth. Of course, it does not only have God's ability, but also has God's character--that is, the goodness and love as mentioned above. This kind of goodness and love is also mysterious and sublime since it comes from a small deity - a small deity from the heavenly world of high winds and dust. Interpreted from this perspective, we can more y understand the theme of the poem, as well as the poet's thoughts and feelings, which is to glorify God. It turns out that the poet proclaims a love rich in religious significance - the noblest and purest love. Religious feelings elevate the feelings of the poem, and religious thoughts elevate the theme of the poem.
The meaning of this latter picture is more worthy of attention. Generally people can only realistically write about children's playfulness and intimacy with their mothers; only Tagore can write about the deeds and psychology of the personified deity, and write as lightly, skillfully, and naturally as if it were flowing in the clouds. He writes the mystery and the implication of Oriental poetry and Oriental culture. In this respect, his poems are also very different from Western poems. Western poetry, despite the history of religious thought, religious feelings, but after entering the modern world, this kind of thought and feeling has been gradually diluted, estranged, have not seen which famous poet like Tagore this obsessive belief in God, and to praise God as a theme of poetry. Because Tagore lived in a country where Buddhism is the state religion, he is a poet cultivated by the Eastern culture. Throughout the prose poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, you can feel everywhere a strong, mysterious religious atmosphere. Often appear in the poem of the gods "half a claw", although not named, but "you", "he", "she" and other indicative pronouns are usually Although they do not name the deities, indicative pronouns such as "you", "he", "she", etc. usually express or imply the deities being honored. Therefore, it can be said that the glorification of God is the basic mother-theme of Tagore's poetic creation and the deep theme of The Golden Flower.
Of course, we can read the poem only in terms of mundane, mundane themes, but that would be superficial and not quite in keeping with the original expectations of Tagore's poetry; if we read it with the help of religious sentiments, religious thoughts (though we are not promoting religion through it), the meaning of the work will become profound, and we will be able to capture the poet's feelings and ideas.
I will quietly open my petals and watch you work.
The look of concentration is an expression of love for mom.
When you bathe, with your wet hair draped over both shoulders, and walk through the shade of the golden flowers to the little courtyard where you say your prayers, you will smell the flowers without realizing that the fragrance comes from me.
When you have had your lunch and are sitting by the window reading the Ramayana, and the shadow of that tree falls on your hair and lap, I shall cast my little shadow on your pages, right where you are reading.
But would you guess that this is your child's tiny shadow?
The use of two "when you" in these three paragraphs shows that the child receives his mother's love and thinks about how to return it. He wants his mother to smell the fragrance of the flowers, so that she can read without hurting her eyes. The image of the child being mischievous and understanding is shown.
When you took the lamp at dusk and went to the cowshed, I suddenly fell to the ground again and became your child again, begging you to tell me stories.
"Where have you been, you bad boy?"
How anxious the mother is when she does not see her child, and once she does, she is so surprised and happy that she naturally blames the child. This sentence shows the mother's surprise.
"I won't tell you, mom." This is what you and I would have said at that time.
The child is pouting, happy that he can do something nice for his mom, and has to keep it a secret from her, leaving her baffled. This line shows the child's pampered, mischievous look.
This prose poem, let us feel the mother and child love, feel the love of mother and child, so a kind of intimacy, so a kind of intimacy. "I am innocent, lively, witty, "tricky", and innate goodness; mother is quiet, pious, but also kind, loving. Love is communication, from the child's love for the mother, you can think of the mother's love for the child.
"Golden Flower" is undoubtedly another work full of bold and novel imagination, the poet borrowed the "golden flower" this anomaly, the child's heart expressed as if it were real.
Usually when people write about the child's innocence and naughtiness, they can only think of writing about how cute he is, how naughty he is, how he is in front of his mother, or intentionally doing disobedience to attract more attention and love from his mother.
Tagore's imagination is often unexpected, he chose the "golden flower" as a metaphor to deal with this common theme. Most of the great writers have this talent, good at people in the commonplace things in the dig out of the marvel of the different.
A child wants to be naughty with his mother. Instead of doing it any other way, he's going to turn into a golden flower on a branch of a tree, jumping and swaying with a smile, looking down on all his mother's work, and making sure she can't find him.
The child who turned into a golden flower did not want to be idle for a moment, and tried to make trouble and amusement for his mother by all means. He wanted to let his mother smell the flowers, but did not know that the aroma is from the body of her child; he wanted to cast the shadow of his own golden flower on the pages of the book that his mother was reading, dancing and jumping happily with his mother's point of view wandering, but did not let his mother guess that this is her own child's shadow. At dusk, the child, who had played enough, came down from the tree and landed in front of his mother, pestering her for a story. And when his mother scolded him for where he had run off to, the child replied mysteriously and proudly:
"I won't tell you, Mom."
He was trying desperately to keep the joy of his mischievous success under wraps for miles!
There is nothing lovelier than the world of children. There is no one who is more sensitive to the child's heart than Rabindranath Tagore. This is the brilliance of a great poet.