Talking about Reading is a famous article. Many wonderful passages in the article, such as "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent", have become familiar aphorisms. It mainly talks about the benefits of reading. Around this central topic, I also talked about some related issues, such as reading should complement experience, paying attention to reading methods, and making different choices according to different personalities and needs. The article is discussed from three levels: first, from the beginning to "all by observation", talk about the benefits of reading. At the beginning, the author directly points to the topic, and thinks that reading has three major benefits: delight, fu Cai and long talent. And then from the front to explain them separately, it can be said that it is not complicated. Later, when the conversation turned, it was pointed out from the opposite side that there might be misunderstandings in seeking knowledge, that is, "reading takes too much time and is easy to be lazy, and literary talent and algae are too prosperous to be corrected. It is a pedant's reason to judge things entirely by provisions." Secondly, talk about the methods of reading (from "don't deliberately question the author when reading" to "be ignorant and obviously know"). He advocates that different methods should be adopted for different books, such as selective reading, full reading and intensive reading, and reading should be combined with taking notes and writing to apply what you have learned; It should also be treated separately according to individual temperament and needs. Finally, the author quotes an important viewpoint of Ovid, an ancient Roman poet, that is, "Learning changes temperament" (translated by Wang Zuoliang as "Everything that has learned becomes character"), which actually emphasizes and promotes the benefits of reading from another angle, making the argument of the article more complete, the argument more rigorous and the writing echoing. Bacon is a famous English essayist. As a literary genre, the essay "essay" was first used by him in Britain. From this article, we can see some stylistic features of the essay literature, that is, it is conversational and focuses on expressing opinions without careful discussion. At the beginning of this article, it is titled with a highly summarized aphorism sentence: "Reading is enough to delight feelings, to enrich colors and to be talented." As for how to be happy, how to be colorful and how to be talented, it is not further explained. Fortunately, we all have experience, and what we said is common sense. But common sense is so incisive, one is ten, and this is the power of bacon. In order to talk about the benefits of reading thoroughly and convince people, the article does not shy away from the opposite views, such as reading too much is easy to become pedantic, theory is divorced from reality is easy to make dogmatism, etc., but he does not argue, but calmly plugs the loopholes, points out the benefits of reading from the front, and then talks about the disadvantages that are easy to cause by superstitious book knowledge. "Reading takes too much time and is easy to be lazy, but literary talent is too prosperous to correct, and it is pedantic to break things entirely by provisions." Then talk about the method of reading. Don't talk too much, just stop. He advocates that different methods should be adopted for different books, such as selective reading, full reading and intensive reading, and reading should be combined with discussion and composition to apply what you have learned; It should also be treated separately according to individual temperament and needs. Finally, the author further emphasizes and promotes the benefits of reading according to the viewpoint that "everything you learn becomes character". The style of the article is simple and fluent, and every sentence has a certain pertinence. It can be seen that this is an earnest warning from a knowledgeable person who knows the human feelings and psychology of ordinary people. In order to increase readability and make the style of writing friendly, the article also pays attention to flexibly inserting rhetorical devices such as metaphor, parallelism and analogy, such as: "Natural talents are like natural flowers and plants, and then you know how to prune and graft after reading"; "Reading history makes one wise, reading poetry makes one witty, and mathematics makes one careful ..."; "People's intelligence is hindered, and all can be smoothed by appropriate books, just like all diseases of the body can be eliminated by appropriate exercise." This is the characteristic of the essay, as if it were a ramble in a literary salon. Without induction and deduction, the cause and effect, the premise of size, the circumstantial evidence of this certificate, the truth is concrete and vivid, and it is useful in life. As Rubinstein, a British literary historian, commented: "Bacon is a master of writing essays, and the articles are not dominated by personal feelings and have a fair and detached style. He established direct contact with readers' thoughts more than fifteen generations before him. His thoughts are never abstract, but always concrete and living things. His essays are concise and varied, and every time he reads them, people are involuntarily attracted. The inspirational common sense in the article is still one of the monuments of modern people's practical wisdom that can stand the test of time. I understand that it can be used to transform the world. "