1. Essay on 'Practicing Four-Word Poems' number 1
I. Homework Preparation
Question 1 (Page 84 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
In addition to the poem Lượm, there are other four-word poems:
My autumn
Is golden chrysanthemum
Like a thousand eyes
Open, looking at the calm sky
My autumn
Fresh green leaves
The scent calls
From the color of lotus leaves
(My Autumn - Quang Huy)
Rhyming words: me - calm, me - en
Question 2 (Page 83 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
- Foot rhyme: row - page
- Back rhyme: back - back, across - curtain
Question 3 (Page 84 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
- Continuous rhyme is used continuously in poetic verses
- Separate rhyme is not used continuously, usually spaced
- Continuous rhyme: grandchild - six, out - home
- Separate rhyme: uncle - mom, orchestra - bulk
Question 4 (Page 85 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
Correction: Let me sit next to (instead of Let me sit by the fire)
Correction: How many rivers (instead of How many boats)
Question 5 (Page 86 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
You can refer to the following collected poem passage:
I love the color red
Like the blood of the heart
Homeland flag
Scarf for team members
I love the color green
Plain, mountains
Sea full of fish and shrimp
High sky
I love the color yellow
Ripe rice fields
Chrysanthemum flowers in autumn
Bright sunlight
(Colors I Love - Phạm Đình Ân)
II. Crafting Four-Word Poems in Class
Lesson 1 (Page 85 of Vietnamese Literature 6, Volume 2):
Example of a four-word poem passage:
Glistening sunlight
Igniting two rows
Heart like the wind
A color of burning phoenix
Foot rhyme: carry - row; wind - burn
Illustration (Source: internet)
Illustration (Source: internet)2. Essay on 'Practice Making Four-Word Poems' number 3
AT HOME PREPARATION
Question 1. Besides the Lượm poem, let's add a few more four-line poems, for example:
Swinging sound (Trần Đăng Khoa)
Sticky candy, sticky stuck
Sticky candy, sticky stuck
Your hand moves evenly
Full of the swinging sound.
Sticky candy, sticky stuck
The midday summer is vast
Chickens sleep with folded legs
Limp bamboo branches.
Sticky candy, sticky stuck
The custard apple tree is faint
Its eye opens slightly
Looking at the clear sky.
Sticky candy, sticky stuck
My hammock sways evenly
Birds outside the window
Cut through the swinging sound...
(Excerpt)
The words that rhyme in the above poem are: evenly - swinging; summer - bamboo; evenly - swinging.
Question 2. The poem:
Clouds about a row
Cross the back of the mountain
A thousand solemn trees
Float along with the dust.
Rhyming in the back: row - cross; solemn - dust
Rhyming in the feet: row - solemn; mountain - dust
Question 3.
- The following verses create continuous rhymes:
Buffalo calf grazes, buffalo calf sniffs
Buffalo doesn't follow its mother
Then the buffalo follows the herd
Buffalo, don't wander off
The villain will catch you.
- The following verses create spaced rhymes:
Nephew walks, uncle
Uncle goes on a distant journey
Until now, June
Suddenly hears news from home.
Question 4. The following verses are excerpted from the poem 'Sisters' by Lưu Trọng Lư, a friend mistakenly wrote two words with rhyme, please identify those two words and replace them with two river words, fitting to make sense.
I step in here
Today the wind is cold
Sister lights the fire
For me to sit by the river
Today, sister got married
Stays in Giang Dong forever
Under the white clouds
How far is a few rivers.
Question 5. Write a four-line poem.
Reference poem
SOUTHERN BANANA TALE
A thousand trees like a gathering
The soil of our homeland
Tell me how the bananas end
Fragrant in a green color.
Falling from the sky
Plantain leaf, Fairy Princess
Plantain Cau, borrowed
The name of the neighbor's leaf?
Old Huong is strange
There is also Old Dwarf
Old banana has many fruits
Contributing a shared fragrance
Where do bananas come from
Growing in this land
Who calls it familiar
Xiêm banana, Western banana.
King of all bananas
Is it the Royal Banana?
Pepper banana ripens
Knows it's spicy.
Rice banana, leaf banana
Belonging to whom closely
Waxy banana, strange to eat
Must be boiled to eat.
Looking for honey banana
Following the path of bees
Meeting seeded banana
Under the thick leaves
Banana as a scene
Corn unfolds like a lotus
Water banana jumps and branches
Red flowers bloom...
How many kinds of bananas
We plant and nurture
A cool green garden
Our homeland vast.
(Trần Ngọc Hưởng)
I. Basic knowledge
When doing exercises, pay attention to carefully read the section 'Learn more about four-word poems, after the Lượm poem (Lesson 24, page 77 in the 6th grade Vietnamese textbook, volume 2).
Question 1. Besides the poem Lượm, do you know any other four-word poems or verses? List them and point out the rhyming words in that poem.
Answer:
Besides the poem Lượm, there are other four-word poems:
My autumn
Is yellow chrysanthemum
Like a thousand eyes
Opening to the calm sky
My autumn
New green leaves
The fragrance is like calling
From the color of the lotus leaf
(My autumn - Quang Huy)
Rhyming words: me - êm, me – en
Question 2. Foot rhyming is rhyming at the end of a line, back rhyming is rhyming in the middle of a line. Identify the foot rhyming and back rhyming in the following verse:
Clouds about a row
Cross the back of the mountain
A thousand solemn trees
Float along with the dust
(Xuân Diệu)
Answer:
Foot rhyming and back rhyming in the above verse are:
- Foot rhyming: row – cross, mountain – dust
- Back rhyming: about – back, cross – float
Question 3. Continuous rhyming is rhyming consecutively in the lines; spaced rhyming is rhyming not consecutively, often leaving a line. In the two following verses, which part has continuous rhyming and which part has spaced rhyming?
Nephew walks, uncle
Uncle goes on a distant journey
Until now, June
Suddenly hears news from home
(Tố Hữu)
Buffalo calf grazes, buffalo calf sniffs
Buffalo doesn't follow its mother
Then the buffalo follows the herd
Buffalo, don't wander off
The villain will catch you
(Đồng dao)
Answer:
- Continuous rhyming is rhymed consecutively in the lines
- Spaced rhyming is not rhymed consecutively, often spaced apart
- Continuous rhyming: nephew-uncle, road-home
- Spaced rhyming: sniff-mother, off-catch
Question 4. The following verses are excerpted from the poem 'Sisters' by Lưu Trọng Lư, a friend mistakenly wrote two words with rhyme, please identify those two words and replace them with two river words, fitting to make sense.
I step in here
Today the wind is cold
Sister lights the fire
For me to sit by the river
Today, sister got married
Stays in Giang Dong forever
Under the white clouds
How far is a few rivers
Answer:
Correct: For me to sit by the river (replace For me to sit by the river instead of For me to sit by the fire)
Correct: How far is a few rivers (replace How far is a few rivers instead of How far is a few boats)
Question 5. Write a four-line poem (or verse) with content about a story or description of an event or person in any rhyme you choose.
Answer:
I love the color red
Like the blood of the heart
The flag of the motherland
Scarf worn by a party member
I love the color green
Plains, mountains and forests
Sea full of shrimp and crab
High, vast sky
I love the color yellow
Ripe golden fields
Chrysanthemum flowers in autumn
Bright sun in the sky
(Colors I love - Phạm Đình Ân)
II. Skill training
1. Present the prepared four-word poem (or verse); identify the content, characteristics (rhyme, rhythm) of that poem (or verse).
Answer:
Sunlight gleams
Ignite two rows of fire
Heart like the wind
One color of flaming phoenix
Foot rhyming: gleams – fire; wind – flaming
2. The whole class comments on what has and has not been achieved in the work.
Answer: Students do it themselves.
3. The whole class gives suggestions, each student self-corrects their work.
Answer: Students do it themselves.
4. The whole class and the teacher evaluate and classify.
Answer: Students listen to comments and ratings from the teacher.