In his poems, Ai Qing recalled his bitter years of being magnified by the northwest for more than 20 years. The Noisy City, The Distant Wasteland, The Crowded Station and Under the Lonely Small Oil Lamp explain the process of time extending through space, and fully reveal the poet's grief and helplessness over the "lost years".
Ai Qing wrote the most sincere and touching feelings in the most plain language. He compares "intangible years" with "tangible objects" and uses a lot of metaphors to compare "lost years" to "a bowl of water thrown on the ground", "flowing liquid", "gas" and "smoke from a speeding locomotive" ... At the end of the poem, the poet compares the lost years.
Through these metaphors, the poet transforms the invisible emotions hidden in his heart into tangible concrete things, which deeply arouses the readers' hearts. Arouse the reader's inner sigh that "the years are in a hurry and the past is gone".
Second, the original poem
Lost Years
Author: Ai Qing
Unlike lost luggage, you can get it back at the lost and found office.
Lost years, even I don't know where they are lost,
Some bits and pieces disappeared, and some were lost for ten or twenty years.
Some lost in the noisy city, some lost in the distant wasteland,
Have a plenty of crowded stations, have a plenty of cold little oil lamps;
What is lost is not like a piece of paper. You can pick it up.
It is more like a bowl of water thrown on the ground to dry, and there is no shadow;
Time is a flowing liquid, which cannot be salvaged with a sieve or net;
Time can't become a solid, it's better to become a fossil.
It can even be found in rock formations for tens of thousands of years;
Time is also like gas, like smoke from the front of a speeding train!
The lost years are like a friend who has lost contact and suffered some hardships.
Suddenly I got the news that he had left this world.
Extended data
The poet Ai Qing 1957 was wrongly classified as Rightist. He once lived and worked in Heilongjiang and Xinjiang, and his creation was interrupted for more than 20 years. It was not until 1976 that he started writing again and another creative climax appeared. The Lost Years was written by Ai Qing after he returned to the poetry circle in 1978.
For Ai Qing, who loves poetry creation, the years of exile left deep scars in his heart. Twenty years occupied a quarter of his life, and when he recalled those years, his affection overflowed on the paper through his pen.
Ai Qing's works generally describe symbolic things such as the sun, torches and dawn, showing Ai Qing's hatred of darkness and terror in the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Ai Qing, starting from his love for rural working people and approaching their demands, has been presenting his most authentic poems to them for more than ten years.
Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th New Literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and has become an important achievement in the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also bears in mind his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, the full enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring something different. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image, and with the end of the poem, this image is completed. Image refers not only to people, but also to the visualization of things and ideas.
Ai Qing's poems do not stick to appearances in form, and pay little attention to rhyme and uniformity of lines, but use regular parallelism and repetition to create a unified change. ?
Ai Qing entered the poetry world in the early 1930s, and the deep and melancholy lyrical style of his works attracted wide attention. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ai Qing has actually become one of the most representative poets. From the late 1930s to the mid-40s, it can be called "Ai Qing era". His creation not only created a poetic style, but also profoundly influenced the poetic circles in this period and even in the late 1940s.
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