Poetry Slam Showcases Student Creativity 诗歌朗诵展现学生创意

Curious about life at YCIS Beijing from a student’s perspective? 

从学生的视觉看北京耀中国际学校的学习生活，好奇吗？

In this edition of our Student Blog, Year 7 student Aoife Savage shares her experience of participating in last year’s YCIS Beijing Coffee House Poetry Slam event. She speaks about the inspiration behind her poem and how the project has given her a greater appreciation of poetry and the writing process.  

这一期的学生博客，七年级学生Aoife Savage将和大家分享她参加北京耀中国际学校咖啡屋诗歌朗诵活动。她谈到她创作这首诗的缘起以及这个活动提高了她的诗歌鉴赏及创作的能力。

*This article was originally published on November 11, 2016.  It has been updated for accuracy comprehensiveness.

本文在2016年11月11日在我校网站首发，现经整理以便阅读。

Please introduce yourself.

您介绍一下自己。

My name is Aoife Savage. I’m from Ireland and have lived in Beijing for nearly 1 year.

我叫Aoife Savage. 我来自爱尔兰，在北京生活接近 一年了。

Please introduce the poem that you wrote for the Poetry Slam event. What is it about?

请简单介绍一下你为这次诗歌活动创作的诗，是关于什么的？

The two prompts for the poem were either two different objects or something that annoyed me. When I heard these prompts, I immediately thought of my English test! 2 weeks before the performance, we had an English test that I was really nervous about. I was really scared of not getting a good mark or not knowing the answer to something on the test. Thus, I named my poem “Stressed because of a Test:”

当我听到诗歌创作提示时，我立即想起我的英文考试。在表演的前两周，我们有一次英语测试， 我特别特别紧张。我很害怕我不能得到好成绩，也担心我不会回答考卷上的问题。因此，我将我的诗歌命名为《因考试而紧张》：

I put my hand on my head

Wishing I was dead

I was feeling very stressed

Hoping for the best…

我把手放在我头上，

希望我就这么死去，

我感觉到很大压力，

希望得到最好成绩。

Read the rest of Aoife’s interview on the YCIS Beijing School Blog by tapping “Read more” below! 

详情请点击“阅读原文”。