●Oyster and pearl

1. What do you know about oyster and pearl?

2. Pearls are formed when a pearl oyster coats any hard particle entering it with layers of nacre, a form of calcium carbonate.

3. Have you ever read any literary works in which pearls and oysters are used as symbols? What do they symbolize?

●Enjoy poems

The Deep-sea Pearl

----Edith M. Thomas

The love of my life came not

As love unto others is cast；

For mine was a secret wound—

But the wound grew a pearl, at last

The divers may come and go,

The tides, they arise and fall；

The pearl in its shell lies sealed,

And the Deep Sea covers all．

深海的珍珠

我生命中的爱情已经萠动，

可是它却有些与众不同；

我的爱最终结成一颗珍珠，

他的根源是我隐秘的伤痛。

任采珠的蛙人来去匆匆，

任潮涨潮落波翻浪涌；

这颗珍珠只在封闭的蚌里躲藏，

迷失在茫茫深海无影无踪。

"The Oyster” ----Author unknown

There once was an oyster

Whose story I tell,

Who found that some sand

Had got into his shell.

It was only a grain,

But it gave him great pain.

For oysters have feelings

Although they’re so plain.

Now, did he berate

The harsh working of fate

That had brought him

To such a deplorable state?

Did he curse at the government,

Cry for election,

And claim that the sea should

Have given him protection?

No – he said to himself

As he lay on a shell,

Since I cannot remove it,

I shall try to improve it.

Now the years have rolled around,

As the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate

Destiny – stew.

And the small grain of sand

That had bothered him so

Was a beautiful pearl

All richly aglow.

Now the tale has a moral;

For isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do

With a morsel of sand?

What couldn’t we do

If we’d only begin

With some of the things

That get under our skin