You fell asleep underground,
What a pickle! It's dark!
People watching
How to hate you, how to be afraid of you!
They said:
"Who also don't near him! ……"
After a while, you danced in the flame garden.
In a dark, naked body,
Bursts of red heat;
Ah! It's red and hot,
Beautiful and bright!
They forgot what just happened,
With a big smile,
Sing a song praising you;
Hit your body again,
Make do with your dance festival.
1920 65438+1October 9, Beijing
Coal was written on June 1920, and it took less than a month to write about sheep. This is an important work in the development of Zhu Ziqing's thought and creation. After exploring and thinking about life, society and road, he made a new discovery: coal deeply pressed underground has great energy.
Of course, coal is a symbolic image here. The first verse of the poem says that coal is asleep in the dark underground, and people who see it hate and are afraid of its salinization and don't want to go near it. The second section writes that coal burns in the fire, and the black and naked figure emits red and heat, making the world beautiful and bright. In the third quarter, people changed their understanding, praised coal with songs and danced with its beat. The symbolic meaning of the poem is easy to understand: great creativity lurks among the oppressed working people at the bottom. Although their bodies are dark and naked, they will emit light and heat to shine on the bright world. In the poem, people hated the "salinization" of coal and didn't want to go near it, which meant that some petty-bourgeois intellectuals despised the inferiority of workers and peasants. At that time, some intellectuals refused to get close to the workers and peasants because of their dirty hands and black faces, but once they realized the great power of the workers and peasants, their views and actions would change and they would be combined with the workers and peasants.
There are poems about coal in ancient and modern times. Ming dynasty's famous seven laws "Fu Coal" wrote: "Digging chaos to get black gold,/hiding the sun is meaningful. /The fire broke out again./The burning stove shone all night. /Ding Yiyuan came to generate electricity,/The stone remains the same after death. /I hope the whole life is full of warmth,/I'm too lazy to walk out of the mountains. " Poets in Ming Dynasty praised things and expressed their ambitions. By praising the character of coal, he expressed his feelings of doing his best for the country and the people, and praised the dedication of self-sacrifice for the benefit of mankind. Zhu Ziqing, a modern poet, is no longer reciting things and expressing his ambitions. Instead, he vividly expresses a rational understanding by thinking about social problems and borrowing the form and internal potential of coal, which has gone beyond his personal ambitions and is an ode to the lower classes. Its contents and concepts are modern, and they belong to different times.