EEE week 6

                                            

“Fire and ice” is one of the most popular poems in the world. I chose this poem to my blog, because it is simple yet powerful. Some of my classmates chose this poem to post on their own blogs. According to their blogs, the poem has good metaphor to learn and the level of the poem is appropriate to high school students.

Junghyun Kim points out that this poem’s metaphor is the best feature of the poem. She said that the “fire” and “ice” is metaphor for human’s desire and hate. (Kim 2014.10.20) The poem gives a lecture to students that the physical sin could be very dangerous. Jungrae kim said that the poem is not too long and the vocabulary is not too difficult for high school students. He writes, “Students could study poem with tranquil heart.” (Kim 2014.10.20) It means the high school students can learn the poem with unstressed mind.

In summary, the poem has good reasons to teach high school students. My classmates have good defense of using “Fire and ice” for highschool students. The poem has metaphor to learn and the vocabulary is not too difficult to learn.

References:

Kim, Junghyun (2014/10/20)“Elt and Essay homework // Ice and fire” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://junghyunhere.blogspot.kr/

Kim, Jungrae (2014/10/20)“Elt and Essay homework // Ice and fire” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://jeongrae.blogspot.kr/

 

In my opinion, “Fire and Ice” is the most suitable poem  to teach for high school students among “To chinese grandmother”, “The red hat” and “ “To a daughter leaving home”. This poem is one of the most well known poem in the world. It has messages. It has some challenging vocabulary for high school students to learn. Students also can learn about how American poem is written.

In the poem “Fire and Ice”, there is a message. The poem is using metaphor. This makes the poem more effective and strong. In the poem, “Fire” means desire and “Ice” means hate. The writer tells both are great but both are also dangerous. Desire could be good things and dangerous things.  People could have desire for their dream. People also could have desire for physical satisfaction. For the “hate” it is powerful. People should be careful on ice which is means hate.

Students can learn language from the poem. The poem is simple and short so that the high school students can focus and learn better. American poem is not familiar with high school students so it is better be simple and easy like the poem. There are also some challenging vocabulary to learn for high school students. This poem is going to help students to understand American literature and English at the same time.  

There are reasons for this poem to be most famous, even though it is simple and short. I take the well known saying “simple is the best”. It is short yet powerful. The writer expresses exactly what he/she want to tell people. It has hidden strong messages which are good for high school students to learn for their lives.