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发表于 2003-6-29 02:37:09 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Issue 14 "It is necessary for everyone to read poetry, novels, mythology and other types of imaginative literatures."

Agree
1, imagination plays a critical role in nurturing initiative and creativity of individuals.
2, the world is predominated by the air of rationality, logics and many other rigid things.
3, imaginative literatures do a benefit to developing imagination.

I fundamentally agree that everyone in present-day world should read poetry, novels, mythology and other types of imaginative literatures, for which can do a significant benefit in nurturing imagination. And facing the over-predomination of rationalism over almost all aspects of the world, I contend further that this necessity is becoming far more urgent than ever before.

As Einstein has point out, imagination is more important than knowledge. The critical role that imagination plays is that it serves as the catalyst for developing initiative and creativity. Any originative ideas begin with some elementary, immature or even rough guesswork and assumptions, which, to a large extent, depend on the imagination of individuals. Einstein distinguished himself from our common people not primarily in that he was more ingenious than us, but in that he had a nonesuch imagination. It is said that when he was only an eighteen-year-old boys, he shaped some initial ideas about the relationship between space and time; and at 20 years old, he resolved to make a long-term research to test what he had guessed. Ultimately, he succeeded, not so much because of fortunate or chance, but because of his superexcellent imagination and consequently initiative and creativity.

But how to nurture imagination? A possibly effective way is to read imaginative literatures. Many people may ague that so far, this function of imaginative literatures still couldn’t be scientifically confirmed by psychologists, and therefore imagination is more likely an inborn ability. It is not a matter of fact, however, because no any negative evidences can be found too. In contrast, there are ample anecdotal evidences existing to establish the high correlation between the imagination and thus initiative, creativity. YuanJie, Zheng, a very famous fairy-tale writer in China named as “ king of the fairy tale”, has said that his exceptional imagination was mainly due to his interest in mythologies and folklores in his childhood. It is also said that Einstein and Newton were both very fond of the literatures of Shakespeare. Given that the reality life has indicated a certain positive effect of imaginative literatures on imagination, why shouldn’t we make a try before the really scientific methods are developed?

Another critical reason why I plead for reading imaginative literatures is that in the present days, most people tend to seriously ignore the development of imagination. In their minds, there are no other capabilities in human beings more useful than that of deducing, calculating, reasoning and logic analyzing to survive this rationalistic society. More seriously, this perilous climate is injecting into our education systems. Almost all the schools nowadays are inclined to lay a paramount stress on the education of so-called scientism and rationalism; very little time is allocated for students to read or learn poetry, novels and other imaginative literatures. As a result, though we educate more and more scientists, engineers and technicians, the imagination and creativity of people is relatively declining. It can be hoped that if this unhealthy climate can be rectified, certainly our society on the whole will better off. Obviously, under the current conditions, the best way to rectify the ultra-rationalism is to encourage more people in reading poetry, novels, mythology and other types of imaginative literatures.

Let us begin to read imaginative literatures! They will do us a benefit! (544 words)

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发表于 2003-6-29 03:17:34 |只看该作者

mythology can convey some abstract concept, which only mythology embraces.
for instance, chinese legends. greek mythology.
the love of freedom, peace, and beauty.

novels, which involves some imaginative features, can present more interesting and memerable picture than bare figures and factors, which can convey the essenial element of huamn nature. shakespere' masterworks.

is helpful to cultivate a rich personality in individual mind.

without imaginative literature...

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发表于 2003-6-29 19:44:47 |只看该作者

thanks to ken0405's advice !

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发表于 2003-6-29 22:11:17 |只看该作者

because no any negative evidences（no后面跟单数evidence） can be found too（either）
happyman，我觉得你的每一篇字数都很多，而且没有什么错误。你写一篇都需要多长时间？
我觉得应该说一些读这些小说的别的好处！除了想象力。呵呵，比较浅薄的，比如丰富人们的业余生活，扩大人们的知识面，培养人们的个性....当然，你说的想象力是主要的一方面。
另外，是不是可以it is necessary for “everyone”去写。everyone太绝对了吧。
你的关于想象力的重要性，还有注重理性的教育是不是论述太多。

Never,never,never,never give up !!

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发表于 2003-6-29 22:51:12 |只看该作者

to feier 521

我写作文花时间最少的也要2个小时，多的要花........不说了，惨不忍睹！

多谢你的建议！

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发表于 2003-6-29 22:56:55 |只看该作者

The plain fact that makes imaginative literatures necessary for everyone is that everyone needs to have fun! Imaginary literatures are definitely more conducive to kiling leisure time and taking readers to the fantastic world they dream of but cannot experience in their daily life.

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发表于 2003-6-29 23:05:13 |只看该作者

it will consuming far much more time by playing electronic games ! it is not a well-founded reason!

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发表于 2003-6-30 19:27:40 |只看该作者

Wow! It seems that u read novels for educational and elevating purposes! I doubt others are as deligent as u r... At least not the readers of Stefen King's thrillers!
You can read a novel or poem or myth at any time as you wish as long as there is plenty of light. But it's not so easy to play Egames everywhere. If u r on a train, for instance, u will need a GBA with enough batteries. In addition, not everyone likes Egames.
By the way, many computer or video games r rearrangements of imaginative literature. Don't u know that?

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发表于 2003-6-30 20:28:56 |只看该作者

to de jure

thanks to your throwing me some lights on this question !

undoubtedly, you are right when you say that imaginative literature has the function of entertainment. but maybe you have misunderstood what i said. my meanings is that to this issue, the purpose for entainment is not good reason for everyone to read imaginative literatures. now that there are numerous means to have fun, why should all of us have to read imaginative literature? therefore, in my opionions, what is the most critical under this circumstance is that we must find the sound reason to prove that everyone must read imaginative literature, not to simply enumerate all the functions of imaginative literature.

of course, every body has his or her own ideas. we couldn't oblige others to accept our own ideas! maybe what i said is entirely wrong !

thanks again !

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发表于 2003-7-1 01:55:20 |只看该作者

这篇我也刚刚写过，我是这么构思的。
1.When we retrospect our course of growing up , we may find that we have learned so many famous poetries or novels written by some giants in school . why , you may wonder , is such knowledge made so great emphasis on ? Because reading some types of imaginative literature is helpful for us to make progress in many fields , not only in the capability of working , but also in the form of perfect characters .
2 . discussing it is necessary for everyone .in my oppion ,it is .
reasons : a. to ordenary persons , 我们从小到大，在学校里面学习了很多文学作品，也许那只是一种被动的学习，但是，在这些不知不觉的学习当中，我们了解了很多道德观念和做人的道理。并渐渐的形成了自己的道德标准和行为规范来约束自己，在社会中更好地被人所接受。这些都归功于这写文学作品的习读。例如白雪公主的故事告诉我们要心地善良，不说假话，而鲁迅的文章则告诉我们要热爱自己的祖国，无论他是贫穷还是富强。etc.
b.as for those who are eager for success , 许多文学作品不仅告诉我们很多做人的道理，更加在科学研究方面给于我们提示和指点。例如，"from the earth to the moon "，etc.[显得单薄的一点：（]
3.总结。

我想很多人会抓住虚构小说有利于创新思想的培养来阐述，而我在这篇文章中更加注重于人们思想上的成长和进步都是得益于这些文学作品的选读的。每个人的想法的侧重点不同，所以，只要能够提出自己的新意，不必拘泥于一些必选的理由的阐述上，所以，我比较赞同happyman2000的观点，
请多指教：）

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发表于 2003-7-1 02:45:20 |只看该作者

the discussion is quite helpful to improve our writing skills
hehe

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发表于 2003-7-1 06:12:07 |只看该作者

I'm sorry that I read ur essay too hastily, and now I understand why u r worrying that u don't have enough to say.
I think u may try agreeing the statement partly, pointing out under what circumstances the given statement applies. That statement is too absolute, and it's not easy to defend such a statement. Even ur reasons in the essay is subject to attacks.
BTW, I think my reason is still valid because imaginative literatures serve as a unique category of entertainment that no other forms can replace.
Nice to have discussions with u!

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