영화를 이용한 영시 강의 사례 연구 : < 디어헌터 > 를 이용한 경우 = A Case Study of Developing a Movie - Based Method of Teaching English Poetary : The Case of Using The Deer Hunter

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Poetry is generally regarded as the least practical of all the literature courses of college English department. This is certainly not an age of pure art or philosophy, and most poetry professors today quietly accept the sad fact that students these days tend to avoid taking non-practical courses. However, the more the world become practically oriented the more it needs to have poetry to remain balanced mentally and emotionally. This is why it is necessary today to try to attract more students to poetry courses. The purpose of this study is to develop a movie-based method of teaching English poetry better to Korean university students, which would help them understand English poetry better and make them more interested in the poetry course. The movie used here was The Deer Hunter(1978) directed by Michael Cimino. It is a movie about life and human relationship, their essential dignity and value that should be sustained against all the odds. Three young steel-factory workers form Pennsylvania, Michael, Steven and Nick, get drafted to fight in Vietnam. While in action they fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated. Steven, breaking one of his legs and paralyzed under his waist, was evacuated and spends his days in a rehabilitation center refusing to return to his family. Nick, deserting from barracks, joins the professional Russian roulette gamblers and eventually kills himself in spite of Michael`s desperate efforts to save him. Michael, returning from Vietnam, has difficulty fitting himself to the life and people at home. The Deer Hunter makes use of some important formal devices and techniques that are typically used in poetry, especially modern British and American poetry. Showing this movie to the students before proceeding to read the poems and encouraging them to talk about its theme, formal devices and techniques, proved to help them get prepared for the course. While reading individual poems students were constantly reminded of some of the aspects of the movie relevant to those of the poems-irony, the dramatic form, juxtaposition, implications, symbolism, imagery. The student`s response to this method showed that it helped them get more interested in the course and understand the poems better.