This poem adopts a short and powerful rhythm, depicts a complex picture of the world famous for capitalism, and fully and forcefully expresses the poet's anger and even the eagerness to curse. Judging from this poem, people's struggles are everywhere, contradictions and struggles are everywhere, and hatred and curses are everywhere from the hottest blood in the chest.
The poem depicts the so-called prosperity, industrialization and economic prosperity of Marseille. The essence is chaos, the blood whip on the people's backbone and the inhuman suppression of imperialism. Ai Qing looks at this chaotic society from the bottom of working people and laborers.
This poem is Ai Qing's criticism and opposition to imperialist principles. Although it is necessary to learn from foreign advanced knowledge and ideas, those who violate human nature and abuse people are resolutely resisted and absolutely rejected. This is a spark about Ai Qing in hell. He brought back to China, which belongs to the world and should be recognized by the times.
Creative background:
Ai Qing studied in France, studied poetry with Lin Fengmian in Enshi, and lived in a foreign country for several years, which made his poetry influenced by Russian postmodernism and some famous Renaissance artists, but at the same time France in Europe was also in turmoil. During this period, Ai Qing wrote two poems, one is Paris, and the other is Marseille included in Selected Poems of Ai Qing.
Marseille was written by Ai Qing in 1933. Marseille is the first city in France, which is the product of war and plunder since Roman times. /kloc-in the 9th century, the Marseillaise, which depicts 500 martyrs going to Paris to support the revolution, became famous all over the world.
As the national anthem of France, flying in the long river of history is a highlight moment of a country's development and a French plot in Ai Qing's heart. But in the 20th century, Marseille was colonized and expanded, and became more and more prosperous and stable.