From "A Generation", a poem written by Gu Cheng, a poet of the Misty School, in Beijing in 1979.
This poem is one of the representative works of hazy poetry in the new era and is widely circulated. It expresses the voice of a generation and entrusts its ideals and ambitions - the tenacious desire and persistent pursuit of "light" after experiencing the "dark night".
The whole poem is as follows:
The night gave me black eyes,
I use them to find light. ?
Word annotations are as follows:
Generation: refers to people who grew up during the historical stage of the Cultural Revolution.
Dark Night: Alluding to the Cultural Revolution political movement from 1966 to 1976.
Extended information:
There are only two sentences in the whole poem, and the images appearing in the poem are all very common phenomena in daily life: night, eyes, light. Because of this, this poem has a thoughtful charm. The novel combination of the two sentences and the seemingly contradictory twist contain wonderful rationality.
The poet gave this poem with only two sentences a grand and intriguing title: a generation. But the content of the poem seems to point to two generations: it is not only a summary and reflection of the previous generation, but also a call and positioning for the next generation.
The image of "dark night" encompasses a vast and indefinite time and space, and is a metaphor for an abnormal and inhumane time and environment. This in itself is a tragedy in the development of history. "Give me black eyes" is the result of this tragic forward development, and the bearer of the tragedy is "I".
Because the connection between "dark night" and "black eyes" (the derived image of "dark night") is "I", and "I" passively became the bearer of this disaster. , "Black Eyes" is actually a concrete form of "alienation", which has gone deep into the tragedy of the irreconcilability between man and the environment.
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