영화 속의 영시: 멀티미디어를 활용한 영시

English Poetry in the Cinema: The Education of English Poetry via Multimedia

The aim of this study is to exemplify the education of English poetry by means of the cinema. Nowadays thousands of movies are released every year, which means that the available sources for this teaching method are abundant. The biggest advantage of the education of English poetry via the cinema is that it can reinforce drastically the accessibility of students to poetry, helping them dismiss the conventional wisdom that English poetry is difficult to understand and study. The accessibility leads to the easiness and efficiency of grasping the meaning of poetry. Every good movie using poems has invariably the same or similar theme with the poems used in it, which means that the condensed and compacted themes of the poems can be paraphrased by the long and detailed scenes of the cinema. The mutual complement implants the theme and meaning of the poems in the student's mind both impressively and effectively as can be seen from the case study of Dead Poets Society. The exquisite harmony between the poetry and the cinema can establish the education of English poetry via the cinema as a powerful and effective pedagogy.