阅读经典文学应不应该被强制英文辩论.docx

When we dip into the rich variety of novels, poems, and plays which constitute English Literature we are reading works which have lasted for generations, or centuries, and they have lasted because they are good. These works say something worth saying, and say it withartistrystrong enough to survive while lesser works drop into obscurity.Literature is part of our culturalheritagewhich is freely available to everyone, and which can enrich our lives in all kinds of ways. Once we have broken the barrier that makes studying literature seem daunting, we find the works can be entertaining, beautiful, funny, tragic. They convey profundity of thought, richness of emotion, insight into character. They take us beyond our limited experience of life to show us the lives of other people at other times. They stir us intellectually and emotionally, and deepen our understanding of our history, our society, and our own individual lives.In great writing from the past we find the England of our ancestors, and we not only see the country and the people as they were, but we also soak up the climate of the times through the language itself, its vocabulary, grammar, and tone. We would only have to consider the writing of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Boswell, Dickens, and Samuel Beckett side by side to see how the way writers use language embodies the cultural atmosphere of their time.Literature can also give us glimpses of much earlier ages. Glimpses of Celtic Ireland in the poetry of Yeats, or of the Romans in Shakespeares plays, for example, can take us in our imaginations back to the roots of our culture, and the sense of continuity and change we get from surveying our history enhances our understanding of our modern world.Literature can enrich our experience in other ways too. London, for example, is all the more interesting a city when behind what we see today we see the London known to Dickens, Boswell and Johnson, or Shakespeare. And our feeling for nature can be deepened when a landscape calls to mind images from, say, Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, or Ted Hughes.But good works of literature are not museum pieces, preserved and studied only for historical interest. They last because they remain fresh, transcending as well as embodying the era in which they were written. Each reader reading each work is a new and unique event and the works speak to us now, telling us truths about human life which are relevant to all times.We dont have to read far before we find that a writer hasportrayeda character who is in some way like us, confronting life-experiences in some way like our own, and when we find ourselves caught up with the struggles of a character perhaps we are rehearsing the struggles to come in our own lives. And when we are moved by a poem it can enrich us by putting words to feelings which had lain dormant for lack of a way of expressing them, or been long-forgotten in the daily round of the workplace, the supermarket, the traffic jam, and the TV News.We can gain a lot from literature in many ways, but the most rewarding experiences can come in those moments when we feel the author has communicated something personally to us, one individual to another. Such moments can helpvalidateour personal experience at a depth which is rarely reached by everyday life or the mass media.So why do we need to study English Literature, instead of just reading it? Well, we dont need to study it, but when visiting a country for the first time it can help to have books by people who have been there before by our side.When we start to read literature, particularly older works, we have to accept that we are not going to get the instantgratificationthat we have become used to from popular entertainment. We have to make an effort to accommodate to the writers use of language, and to appreciate the ideas he is offering. Critics can help us make that transition, and can help fill out our understanding by telling us something about the social climate in which a work was written, or about the personal circumstances of the author while he was writing it.We are not going to enjoy every literary work, and there may be times when we find reading a critic is more interesting than reading the actual work. Reading the work of a good critic can be edifying in itself. Making the effort to shape our own thoughts into an essay is also an edifying experience, and just as good literature lasts, so do the personal benefits that we gain from studying it.Whether we choose to study it or read it for pleasure, when we look back over our literature we are looking back over incredible richness. Not just museum pieces, but living works which we can buy in bookshops, borrow from the library, or download from the internet and read today, right now.Significance of reading Classic kids: reading classic is the source of national spirit and human cultural treasures, historic heritage, a record of Supreme wisdom of national gene, is Millennium old on generations of inculcation of the nation, is hosted by sages great ideas bright. We daily read infiltration, inspiration in life and broad and generous personality developed, where life can live out the depth and height, it was Tenets Foundation. All wise it is only based on the classic reading in order to make the best use. We read the classics, saturated with knowledge of, and ability of students. Shape has a profound significance for personal culture. First, reading classics, memory significantly enhanced classic reading which inspire potential and intellectual functions. We take a look at, where the classics can be read backwards. When they recite the textbook knowledge also backs the classic method to read the chant, back quickly, which is what brought strong memories of classical reading powers. United States Yang Dingyi, MD physician in Taiwan for children read classic experience of physical and emotional changes of scientific experimentation proves once again that reads classic childrens memory is stronger. Second, reading classics will help to develop the students ability of language and writing improved. Students stage is memory in the best of times in ones life, we will read the classic chant, direct perception of language, language material accumulated, and learn a variety of expressions, you can learn how to use accurate spoken and written language to express their views, to express his feelings to develop language. Ye said: reading, training language sense, would harness. In language learning, emphasizing and enhancing the reading aloud of the classical and the modern training is necessary. Reading need to respectfully, heart and soul, and not be slow, every word clearly, and relaxed. Classic, should be complacent and in the melodious voices, we persevere every day, reading words of Sage, Sages heart language of San Jeronimo. Modern reading more sound and appearance, respectful reading under the influence of classic carefully reads out the thoughts and feelings. Read then Wu, Wu is then used, which makes perfect, clever and new, reading is to book on your own, in their wisdom, hand-to-mouth take. Many, natural ingenuity and inspiration, the days of creation. Older literary masters such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, and when they were teenagers studying classical Chinese, for the establishment of their deep knowledge of literature has laid a firm foundation. Every day we read the classics, osmosis, was contracted by cultural flavor, cultivate and enrich vocabulary, composition can be quoted, enhances the articles literary heritage; in speech allusive, enhance our language. Boys and girls, let us accept the classic reading education, influence of traditional culture, please let us walk together with the classic.Classic reading the meaning of Chinese traditional culture is the rarity of human wisdom, the world, harmony of the family, the State and society played a great role in maintaining and regulating, the survival and development of mankind has made an important contribution to the world. Chinese classic poetry carries the spirit and the essence of traditional culture of the Chinese nation, are valuable resources in building advanced Socialist culture, is an important carrier of moral education for young persons. Chinese classic poetry reading activities, inherit and carry forward the fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation to invigorate social on the Chinese culture and language learning and love of the motherland, enhance national pride and cultural confidence, enhance our young peoples moral quality and quality, prosperity and development of an advanced Socialist culture, purifying, building Socialist harmonious society is very important. Were reading classical and modern literary zeal has also led to orgasm for language learning, enhance students language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing of students and individuals in shaping culture. Improve memory, enhance potential and wisdom. Silent written language become colorful spoken language in the course of, eyes, mouth, ears, heart, brain, and other senses and use, development of the students of the right brain. Development improvements in language and writing skills of the students. Primary school is a memory in the best of times in ones life, strengthening training on reading classic, you can cultivate and enrich vocabulary, composition can be quoted, enhances the articles literary heritage. Also contribute to the aesthetic appreciation education and humanity education, expanding the depth of thought. First, read classic literature and memory increase markedly. Learn a language, not primarily rely on rational analysis, but by accumulation of direct perception and language. Language is the practice formed a habit of repeatedly, less as if nature be natural. The book read times, its meanings, see strong impacts on the learning ability of reading is based on memory development and optimization based on, with the development of the right brain function. Kaizhi significance. Second, to help develop the students language and writing skills improve. Three, dyslexia help of aesthetic appreciation education and humanity education, expanding the depth of thought. Piwen the feeling, emotional awareness, by civilization; methods enable students to experience and understanding, perception of life, be yourself. Classic moral education is the core of conventional literature is also the c