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When Thought Has Found Words
Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure and modern  poets are looked upon as old creatures from a strange universe. In Western high schools, poetry  is s21     taught because  it  is  considered  old-fashioned  and not relevant to the needs  of
today's  students.
In China, h  22  poetry is  still an important part of the curriculum and, with recent changes a   23   by the Ministry of Education, the number of poems students will have to memorize and recite is being i 24  from fourteen to seventy-two. Now, before you gasp( 倒抽气) in horror, let's think about the reasons why studying so many poems especially ancient poems, is important.
First of all, poetry is an essential part of traditional Chinese c25     It is a pathway to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and emotions that are common to everyone but which we may be unable to express—the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, s 26   and  even  anger,  and  a  good poem  can put those  emotions  into words  and bring us
self-understanding. Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something commonplace can become b   27  Here is a poem called"Fog"by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches(弯腰蹲着)and then moves on.Yes, fog does move s   28  silently and mysteriously like a cat, and Sandberg captures that feeling
and image.
Of course, to really appreciate poetry it has to read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music.  Most a    29     poetry, especially Western poetry, was actually spoken
before it was w   30  .Take Homer's Iliad(荷马的《伊利亚特》), the story of the Trojan War
(特洛伊战争),for example.That epic saga (长篇故事) of Helen's kidnapping and the war
hat  followed  was  apparently  told  for  hundreds  of years  in palaces,  taverns  and  on  street corners before Homer wrote it down and was given credit for it.
The American poet Robert Frost said,"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
and the thought has found words." And poems are very concise-there is not a wasted word. You
are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!

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