The Generation, written by the modern poet Gu Cheng, is a short poem with only two lines. It was written in April 1979, published in the third issue of Star in 198, and later included in the author's poetry collection Black Eyes. The original text of the poem is as follows:
The night gave me black eyes
But I used them to look for light
The Generation is a poem written by Gu Cheng, an obscure poet, in Beijing in 1979. This poem is one of the representative works of obscure poetry in the new period, which is widely circulated. It expresses the voice of a generation, and also entrusts the ideals and aspirations of a generation-the tenacious desire and persistent pursuit of "light" after "night".
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The author of this poem, Gu Cheng, is an important representative poet of China misty poetry school and is known as the contemporary "zork Romantic" poet. Gu Cheng has great attainments in new poetry, old-style poetry and fable poetry. The phrase "Night gave me black eyes/I used it to look for light" in his Generation has become a classic sentence in China's new poetry.
Gu Cheng was born in a poet's home in 1956, and his father was a famous poet Gu Gong. Gu Cheng began his writing career at the age of 17, contributing to various newspapers and magazines. In 1987, he began to travel to Europe for cultural exchange. In 1988, he lived in seclusion in Rapids Island, New Zealand, and lived a self-sufficient life. On October 8, 1993, he cut his wife Xie Ye with an axe and hanged himself under a big tree in his New Zealand apartment. Xie Ye later died.
In the poem Generation, in the color contrast between night and light, all emotions are expressed through black eyes. A simple sentence can show that Gu Cheng has gradually grown into a strong young man in that dark society, and this young man's indomitable and exploratory spirit will support him to find his utopia of life through the twisted dark society.
This poem also fully embodies the artistic features of Gu Cheng's poems in artistic techniques, and is unique in the construction of images. The poet uses images closely related to life feelings in life, and expresses his fresh experience of the world, life and life with unexpected combinations.
Two short poems summarize the psychological course of a generation and express the denial of dark politics and the yearning and pursuit of light. This poem strongly proves that poetry is the essence of art. Its ideological content is highly condensed and artistic expression is highly purified, which makes it have strength and capacity that novels, essays and other styles can't have.
reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-a generation