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Problem description:

Written by Guo Moruo

Analysis :

Ode to Thunder and Lightning

Guo Moruo

Qu Yuan (to the wind and thunder and lightning) Wind! You roar! Roar! Roar as hard as you can! In this dark time, when everything is asleep, submerged in dreams, and dead, it is the time for you to roar, it is the time for you to roar as hard as you can!

No matter how you roar, you can't wake them up from their dreams, you can't bring the dead back to life, you can't blow away the darkness in front of them that is heavier than iron, but you At least some dust can be blown away, some sand and gravel can be blown away, and at least some flowers, plants and trees can be blown away. You can make the Dongting Lake, the Yangtze River, and the East China Sea turn waves for you, and roar loudly with you!

Ah, I miss the Dongting Lake, I miss the Yangtze River, I miss the East China Sea, the mighty and boundless waves! That vast and boundless great power! It's freedom, it's dancing, it's music, it's poetry!

Ah, the great poetry of the universe! Your wind, your thunder, your electricity, everything you roar and shine in this darkness, you are all poetry, all music, and all dance. You great artists in the universe, try your best to use your strength. Vent your boundless rage and explode this dark universe, this miserable universe! Explode it!

Thunder! Is your rumbling sound the sound of your wheels rolling? I will drag it to the edge of Dongting Lake, to the edge of the Yangtze River, and to the edge of the East China Sea! I want to see the rolling waves, I want to listen to the roar of the mantis, I want to drift there Go to a small island with no people, no conspiracy, no filth, no selfishness! I want to jump into the boundless and unrestricted freedom with you, your voice, and the vast sea. Go inside!

Ah, electricity! You are the sharpest sword in the universe! My long sword has been pulled out, but you, you can pull out my visible long sword, but you cannot pull out my invisible long sword. Electricity, you, the sword in the universe, are also the sword in my heart. Split it, split it, split it! Split this darkness, which is stronger than iron, split it, split it, split it! Although you chop it like water, you pull it away and it closes up again, but at least you can make the light appear for a moment. Oh, what a brilliant and dazzling light!

Light, I admire you, I admire you, I want to bow my hands to you, I want to bow my head to you. I know that you yourself are fire, you, you, the greatest person in the universe, fire! You are in the sky, in front of me, and on all sides of me. I know that you are the life of the universe, you are my life, and you are me! My burning life, my anger that is about to burst my whole body, can't I burst out with light?

Explode, my body! Explode, universe! Let the naked fire roll, like the wind, like the sea, and burn everything tangible and all filth! Burn it down! Burn this darkness that contains all sin!

Burn you, Donghuang Taiyi! Burn you, Yunzhongjun! You earthy puppets and wooden stalks, you are sitting on the throne of God. What virtues are there in the position? You are just the father and mother who produce darkness!

You, Dongjun, what kind of Dongjun are you? Others say you are the sun god, you, you are sitting on that horse Not able to gallop at all.

You, you have a red face, are you shy? Ah, you, you are completely fake! You, you puppet, you heartless, soulless, I will burn you, burn, burn you Everything you have, especially burn your horse! If you have the ability, come down and take a walk! What a great commander, what a young commander, your great ability is only to play tricks on people! What a Mr. Xiang, what kind of Mrs. Xiang, your great ability is only to cry a few times! Cry, What's the use of crying? Tears, what's the use of tears? At most, I'll make you cry out a few cages of Xiangfei bamboo! But isn't that Xiangfei bamboo a torture instrument used by masters to beat slaves? Get off the boat, get off the clouds, I will I'm going to burn you down! Burn! Burn!

Humph, and you He Bo... Oh, you He Bo! You, you are my first comforter! I can see it clearly! When I am being People escorted me up a high slope. The guards wanted to rest, so I stood on the high slope and looked back at the dragon gate. I saw it clearly, very clearly! I saw Chanjuan being abused, and I saw you standing up and arguing. As a result, you were escorted into Longmen, and so was Chanjuan.

But me, I have no tears. The universe, the universe has no tears! What's the use of tears? We only have thunder, only lightning, only storms, we don't have muddy rain! This is my will, the will of the universe. Agitate, wind! Roar, thunder! Shine, lightning! Destroy, destroy, destroy everything sleeping in the arms of darkness!

[Appreciation]

Five The one-act historical drama "Qu Yuan" is Guo Moruo's masterpiece. The whole play captures a cross-section of Qu Yuan's life. In one day, it condenses Qu Yuan's insistence on uniting Qi to resist Qin, opposing Qi's surrender to Qin, and launching a fierce struggle with the conservative forces in the Chu court, and summarizes Qu Yuan's spiritual character. "Ode to Thunder and Lightning" is a manifesto in which Qu Yuan asked the heaven and earth to express his ideals when his self-respecting soul suffered the deepest torture and his life was in danger. "Soliloquy" uses poetic language to endow natural thunder and lightning with divine power, turning the thunder and lightning into a long sword of heaven in the hand to split the darkness and burn everything in the darkness. "Ode to Thunder and Lightning" vividly and irresistibly expresses Qu Yuan's love The ideals and requirements of the motherland, upholding justice, longing for light, and opposing darkness. "Ode to Thunder" is a song of righteousness. It takes history as its subject matter, drama as its form, and poetry as its soul. It "resurrects the anger of the times in Qu Yuan's era" and expresses the people's anti-war demands and the national spirit of sharing the same hatred with the enemy during the Anti-Japanese War.

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"Ode to Thunder"

——Author Guo Moruo

Guo Moruo is a famous Chinese historian, writer, poet, dramatist, archaeologist, ancient Chinese calligrapher, and social activist. His original name is Guo Kaizhen. He was born in Shawan, Leshan, Sichuan. He attended a private school when he was young. In 1906, he entered Jiading College to study and began to accept democratic ideas. In the spring of 1914, he went to Japan to study. During this period, he came into contact with the works of Tagore, Goethe, Shakespeare, Whitman and other foreign writers. He wrote "The Shepherd's Lament" in the spring of 1918. His first novel._When the May 4th Movement broke out in 1919, he organized the Xia Society, a national salvation group in Fukuoka, Japan, devoted himself to the New Culture Movement, and wrote "Phoenix Nirvana", "Earth My Mother", "In the Furnace" "Coal" and other poems.

About the author

In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to the motherland and organized and united progressive cultural figures to engage in the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement. During this period, he wrote He has written many historical dramas and a large number of poems, such as: "The Flower of Tangdi", "Qu Yuan", "Tiger Fu", "Peacock Gale", "Nanguancao", "Gao Jianli" and other famous historical dramas.

Died in Beijing on June 12, 1978, at the age of 86.

Qu Yuan (about 340 BC to about 278 BC), a statesman of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, and a great poet in China. Named Ping, courtesy name Yuan, also named Zhengze from Yun Dynasty, with the courtesy name Lingjun, was born in the nobility of Chu State. He first assisted King Huai, served as a disciple of Zuo, and was a doctor of Sanlu. He advocated clarifying the law, promoting talents and granting talents, uniting Qi in the east, and resisting the powerful Qin in the west. Because of being slandered by the noble Zilan (younger brother of King Huai), Zheng Xiu resigned from his post. He was exiled when King Qingxiang was king. Later, due to the political corruption of the Chu state, the capital Ying was captured by Qin soldiers, so he threw himself into the Miluo River and died.

Qu Yuan's Tomb

His works such as "Li Sao" and "Nine Chapters" repeatedly stated his political opinions, exposed the stupidity and corruption of the reactionary nobles, and excluded various crimes of the virtuous. He was absorbing the nutrients of folk literature and art On the basis of this, he created a new form of Sao style, using beautiful language and rich imagination to dissolve myths and legends to create a distinctive image, full of positive romanticism spirit, which has a great influence on later generations.

Qu Yuan's hometown

"Hanshu·Yiwenzhi" contains twenty-five chapters of "Qu Yuan's Fu". The book has been lost for a long time. All Qu Yuan's works seen by future generations come from "Chu Ci" compiled by Liu Xiang.

Creative Background

"Qu Yuan" was written in January 1942, during the stalemate stage of the Anti-Japanese War and the darkest period of the reactionary rule of the Communist Party of China. Half of the country was destroyed. In the face of the enemy, the Chiang Kai-shek clique passively resisted Japan and brazenly launched the "Southern Anhui Incident", massacring the patriotic and anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, setting off a uprising. Faced with this political reality, Guo Moruo was filled with righteous indignation and created "Qu Yuan" to lash out against the Japanese. * The dark rule of the reactionaries, he said: "All the progressive people in China feel the anger, so I resurrected the anger of this era into Qu Yuan's era. In other words, I used Qu Yuan's era to symbolize our time era." ("Preface to the Russian Translation of the Historical Drama "Qu Yuan"") Therefore, Guo Moruo used the tragedy of Qu Yuan in history to show the sharp and fierce struggle between light and darkness, justice and evil, patriotism and betrayal in the real world. It plays the role of "borrowing the past to satirize the present and using the past for the present".

The whole play is divided into five acts: "Ode to Orange", "Framed", "Calling the Soul", "Imprisoned" and "Ode to Thunder".

The excerpt of the text is from the second scene of the fifth act, which is the final part of the whole play. The fatuous and tyrannical King Huai of Chu did not listen to Qu Yuan's repeated advice, brutally tore up the Chu-Qi alliance, and turned to Qin. After embarking on the road of compromise and surrender, Qu Yuan was also imprisoned. Facing the motherland that was sinking into darkness, the poet who lost his freedom was filled with sorrow and anger, which burst out violently in the form of "Ode to Thunder and Lightning".

Listen Recording, talking about feelings

After listening to the recording, can you figure out the layers of this article?

The article is divided into paragraphs according to the development of the power of natural forces and Qu Yuan’s emotional context.

The first level (stages 1 to 3), call the roar of the storm

, sincerely praising "the boundless great power".

The second level (paragraphs 4 to 6) calls for wind, thunder, and lightning, expressing the hatred of darkness and the strong desire for freedom.

The third level (paragraphs 7-8), praises the light and sparks of lightning, and is determined to burn down all dark forces with it.

The fourth level (paragraphs 9-12), righteous words Sternly scolding the "earth puppets and wooden stalks" means being incompatible with filth, evil, and power.

The fifth level (paragraph 13) shows Qu Yuan's strong will and confidence in victory.

Group exploration:

First, talk about what kind of thoughts and feelings the lyrical protagonist expresses by calling wind, thunder, and lightning.

Second, why does the text use so much rhetoric? Technique, what is the expression effect

Wind, thunder and lightning symbolize the pursuit of justice and the transformative power of light in the world. The call and praise of wind, thunder and lightning express the poet's strong resentment towards the dark world and his desire to destroy the darkness, and also It expresses the poet's passionate pursuit of a bright future.

Clear: Use a large number of rhetorical techniques to enhance the artistic expression of the work. For example, use repetition, parallelism, rhetorical questions, and angrily rebuke the evil god to the maximum extent. The lyrical effect is often touching and shocking. The sentence itself has the formal beauty and rhythm of poetry, which enhances the momentum of the sentence, is catchy, sonorous and powerful.

Taste the artistic characteristics

1. lt;gt; What are the characteristics of art

The use of symbolic techniques makes the author's unexplainable thoughts and feelings more subtle, profound and concise. The use of wind, thunder and lightning symbolizes the great power of changing reality. .The Dongting Lake, the Yangtze River, and the East China Sea are used to symbolize the people. The earthen puppets and wooden stems symbolize the bureaucratic ruling group that is morally incompetent and deceives the people. The imagination is magnificent and strange, shining with the glory of revolutionary romanticism. The use of various rhetorical techniques, with The fire-like *** infects the audience.

2. How does the rigorous structure of this article inspire you?

This is a prose poem with a rigorous structure. The whole poem has five levels. First divided and then combined, closely connected, from wind, to thunder, to lightning; from cursing the darkness, to pursuing the light; from singing the fire to shoot out the light, and then to burning all idols. They are linked together, step by step, and completed in one go. The poet's anger and longing for light can be fully expressed. It can be seen that during the performance, this can firmly grasp the hearts of the audience, infect the audience, obtain a sense of presence, and make the audience resonate with it. .

Analysis and comparison: Guo Moruo’s lt; , faintly showing a touch of sadness, quiet, elegant, implicit, slow rhythm, harmonious tone, appropriate and novel imagination, with the artistic conception and charm of classical poetry, like a serenade, flowing through people's hearts, giving people a beautiful enjoyment. "Ode to Thunder and Lightning" "It is a poem in which the insult is increased to the deepest level, completely ravaging the poet's self-respecting soul, and gushing out." It is not only the most important stroke in depicting Qu Yuan's typical character. It is the most prominent embodiment of Qu Yuan's fighting spirit, and it makes The theme of the whole play emerges clearly. This prose poem, with its magnificent imagination, integrates Qu Yuan with wind, thunder and lightning, achieving the state of assimilation of things and myself, showing the power of pursuing light and destroying all darkness, making Qu Yuan's image become light and the incarnation of justice, creating the image of an immortal patriot. Therefore, the feelings of contempt flow out and are unstoppable.

Reading experience

Students read the text to the music and follow along, Further understand Qu Yuan's great feelings of concern for the country and the people, "even though he died nine times, he still has no regrets".

Conclusion: This is a tragic, generous and passionate lyrical monologue. Qu Yuan summoned majestic storms, thunder and lightning, etc. The power of nature, he has been completely integrated with the storm, thunder and lightning! Let us use our most exciting emotions to read the text aloud, enter Qu Yuan's rich inner world, and feel the baptism of thunder and lightning.