The original meaning of red candle is burning candle, which is a symbol of celebration. Red Candle is the first poem written by Wen Yiduo, a famous modern poetry collection in China. Published on September 7th 1923. The first edition received 62 songs.
People's Literature Publishing House (198 1 version) received 103 songs, which had a wide range of themes and rich contents, or expressed the poet's patriotic feelings, or criticized the darkness under feudal rule, or reflected the sufferings of working people, or depicted natural beauty. Clever conception, novel imagination and vivid language image.
The poem "Red Candle" was written in 1923. The poet will publish his first book of poems. Looking back on his ideal exploration and poetic achievements in recent years, he wrote this famous poem "Red Candle" as the preface to the collection of poems of the same name. At this time, Wen Yiduo is returning from studying in the west, still with the romantic atmosphere of idealism. This poem is full of romanticism and aestheticism.
Poetry evaluation
The poem Red Candle is full of romanticism and aestheticism. Poetry emphasizes fantasy and subjective emotion in expression, and uses a large number of lyric exclamations to strongly express the feelings in the heart with beautiful language.
In the form of poetry, the poet pays great attention to the formal beauty and rhythm of poetry, so as to be consistent with the emotions to be expressed in the poem. For example, the use of repeated sentences, to some extent, adopts the rhyming form of China's traditional poetry, and each verse is relatively neat. The characteristics of China's new poems advocated by this poet are rhythm and musicality.
Focusing the spirit of the red candle on the word "red" highlights the overall image of the red candle and is immediately linked with the poet himself.