On the Propriety of Photographs as a Visual Aid for Teaching Poems

The aim of this paper is to discuss the propriety of pictures as a visual aid when poems are taught in class. A poem,"Kita no Haru" - "Spring in the northern part of Japan" was written by a poet, Kaoru Maruyama who lived at Iwanesawa in Yamagata Prefecture. It spells not only the acene, but mountain streams, groves,snows and a school-girl in her class-room. Author went to Iwanesawa and took some pictures as a visual aid for teaching the poem. Though there is a view that pictures always set limit to the image of poems, author insists that some kinds of pictures would rather be helpful to develp the deeper understanding and the more adundant image of them than the simple reading, throgh the experimental ues of the pictures in teaching the pom