I am your dilapidated old waterwheel by the river
Spinning tired songs for hundreds of years
I am the blackened miner’s lamp on your forehead
Follow you as you crawl through the tunnel of history
I am a shriveled ear of rice; a roadbed in disrepair
A barge on the shoal
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Put the rope deep into your shoulders
——Motherland!
I am poverty
I am sorrow
I am your ancestors
The painful hope
Yes "Flying" sleeves
Flowers that have not fallen to the ground for thousands of years
——My motherland
I am your new ideal
Just escaped from the cobweb of myth
I am the germ of the ancient lotus under your snow quilt
I am your laughter nest with tears
I am the newly painted snow-white starting line
It is the crimson dawn
It is gushing
——The motherland
I am you One billionth
is the sum of your 9.6 million square meters
You fed it with your scarred breasts
I am confused, I am deep in thought, I am boiling
Then get it from my flesh and blood
Your wealth, your Glory, your freedom
——Motherland
My dear motherland! [Edit this paragraph] About the author Shu Ting, formerly known as Gong Peiyu, was born in Shima Town, Fujian Province in 1952. In 1969, he went to the countryside to join the army, and in 1972, he returned to the city to work as a worker. In 1979, he began to publish poems, novels, and literary works. In 1980, he worked at the Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles and engaged in professional writing. His major works include poetry collections "Brig", "Singing Iris", "Archaeopteryx", prose collection "Heart Smoke", etc.
Shu Ting emerged in the Chinese poetry scene in the late 1970s. She and her contemporaries Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Liang Xiaobin and others set off a wave of "hazy poetry" in the Chinese poetry circle with a poetic style that was very different from their predecessors. Their poems changed the traditional characteristics of new poems, which were clear words and almost branched prose style. The meaning was profound but not obvious. They changed the single image of the poem into a multi-layered superposition of images, leaving readers with broad room for imagination and explanation. Many poems lose their traditional bright color and become hazy. They used hazy poems to express a generation's reflections on the fate of the country and their careful thinking and criticism of all aspects of social life.
Shu Ting is a representative of the Misty Poetry School. <
"Motherland, My Dear Motherland" is written by Shu Ting One of the representative works is a soulful patriotic song. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinctive characteristics of the times and personality - it contains both the confused pain and joyful hope of contemporary youth, as well as the daughter's true feelings of dissatisfaction and devotion to her mother Ai Ai, blending with deep and profound feelings. A sense of history and a strong sense of the times. The whole poem has novel ideas and sincere feelings, singing about the motherland from a unique perspective. In order to express this innocent affection, the poet adopts a rhythm from low and slow to high and fast. It is both weeping and complaining, sad and resentful, but also passionate and unrestrained, and moving forward indomitably. The whole poem uses the technique of interweaving and blending of subject and object to express the poet's sense of integration and dedication to the motherland.
Shu Ting is one of the representative poets of Misty Poetry. Her poem "Motherland, My Dear Motherland" was written in the first spring when our country entered a new era of reform and opening up. When reading this poem, we must first pay attention to understanding the image connotation of "I" in the poem, and clarify the relationship between "I" and the motherland. Secondly, it is also necessary to correctly understand the meaning of the many images that appear in the poems, and read Shu Ting's other poems outside of class to understand the characteristics of Shu Ting's poems that express her inner voice in euphemistic twists and turns.
There are four stanzas in the poem, and there are four image groups. Through their progressive combination, it not only expresses the development process of the motherland from suffering to rebirth, but also expresses the emotions from confusion to deep thought to elation. The special emotional journey of the young generation is the unanimous voice of the Communist Party of China. The poem first suppresses and then rises, like a multi-voice symphony, showing a language rhythm from slow to rapid, from low to high. The solemn emotion shown by the novel imagery is the key point of appreciating the whole poem. [Edit this paragraph] Overall understanding Shu Ting is one of the representative poets of Misty Poetry. Her poems mostly draw on romantic artistic methods. In this song "Motherland, My Dear Motherland", the author casts the individual "I" into the big image of the motherland, and assumes the important task of obtaining "richness", "glory" and "freedom" for the motherland, expressing a strong patriotism and historical responsibility. This poem won the "1979-1980 National Outstanding Poetry Award for Young and Middle-aged People" from the Chinese Writers Association.
The whole poem is divided into four stanzas.
In the first stanza, the poet arranges a series of images: waterwheel, miner's lamp, rice ears, roadbed, and barge.
There are long or short modifiers in front of these words, such as "shabby", "blackened", "dry", "disrepair", etc., showing the suffering they have suffered, and "hundreds of years" and "tunnel of history" show the experience After a long time. The "barge" ranked last and most emphasized is on the "silt beach", and is arduously moving forward under the pull of the rope that "cuts deeply into your shoulders" at the other end. The author repeatedly uses the sentence pattern of "I am...". In his affectionate speech to the motherland, he integrates the individual "I" into the big image of the motherland, expressing the emotion of "I" and the motherland being interdependent in life and death and connected by flesh and blood. The last line uses a dash to introduce the passionate aria "O motherland". This is a change of narrator's person and also makes the poetry pause for a moment in the small climax. The following two sections also end in this way.
In the second stanza, there are not as many specific images arranged as in the first stanza. In this section, "poverty", "sadness", "hope", etc. are abstract words. "Feitian" is a god who can fly in the sky in religious legends. He is highly respected among the people and represents the simple people's wishes for life. The first two stanzas of the poem both write about the history of the motherland. The first stanza focuses on reality, while this stanza focuses on spirituality. Spiritually, the people have always maintained "painful hope" in the situation of poverty. For thousands of years, they have been hoping that their prayers for a better life will "fall to the ground" and become a reality.
The third section is written about the present. In the face of new historical opportunities, the thousand-year-old country has begun a new life. The poet once again arranged a series of vibrant images, including the "ideal" breaking free from the "cobweb of myth", "the germ of the ancient lotus", "the vortex of laughter hanging with tears", "the newly painted snow-white starting line", "The crimson dawn is gushing out" and so on, showing that the motherland is free from shackles and thriving.
The fourth section is the declaration of "I". Personally speaking, I am one of the one billion people in China and "one billionth" of the motherland. But from the perspective of "my" mission, "I" must shoulder the important task of revitalizing China, and "I" must integrate with the motherland, so it is "the total of 9.6 million square meters." "You used your scarred breasts to feed/the confused me, the thoughtful me, the boiling me." So, what can "I" use to repay the motherland's nurturing grace? The poet solemnly declared to the motherland, "Then get/your riches, your glory, and your freedom from my flesh and blood." Finally, the song concludes with a strong and repetitive chant of "Motherland/My Dear Motherland".
There is not a word of discussion in the whole poem, it is all described with images and run through with emotion. The chosen imagery is both rustic and distinct, unique and relevant, and every word fits closely with the scene being depicted. Lyricism is not an outpouring of emotion at a glance, but pays attention to its fluctuating rhythm, starting from sadness. From low to joy. It is high-spirited, and goes from excitement to depth, with pathos tangled in it. Worry. A variety of complex and solemn emotions, including passion, disappointment and hope, sighs and pursuits, reflect the poet's unique euphemistic, deep, soft and timeless lyrical personality.