Motherland, my dear motherland.
Shu Ting
I am your shabby old waterwheel by the river.
Old songs that have been spun for hundreds of years.
I am a miner's lamp with your forehead blackened.
When you grope in the tunnel of history.
I am a withered ear of rice; This is a roadbed that is in disrepair.
This is a barge on the beach.
Draw the rope deep
Pull it into your shoulder
-the motherland!
I am very poor.
I am sad
I am your ancestor.
Painful hope.
It's a flying sleeve.
Flowers that never fall to the ground for thousands of years
-Motherland
I am your brand-new ideal.
Just broke free from the mysterious spider web.
I am the germ of your ancient lotus under the snow.
I am your tearful smile.
I am the newly painted white starting line.
This is crimson dawn.
Spraying
-Motherland
I am one billionth of you.
Is the sum of your 9.6 million square meters.
With your scarred breasts,
raise
Lost me, considerate me, boiling me.
And then from my flesh and blood
get
Your richness, your glory, your freedom.
-Motherland
my dear motherland
theme
Patriotism is the theme of this poem. When it comes to the motherland, people often think of the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, Huangshan Mountain and the Yellow River, four great inventions, vast territory and abundant resources ... praise the strength and greatness of the motherland with a seemingly bold but empty lie. The author, on the other hand, found another way to face the ancient history and grim reality of the motherland, constructed a series of flowing and dignified pictures, compared the motherland to a scarred mother with a slow and deep rhythm, poured out her inner pain with a childlike heart, and expressed her passion and determination to devote herself to the future of the motherland.
In the poet's mind, the motherland is no longer a huge and empty abstraction, but a collection of vicissitudes of the past, the reality of poverty and despair and the hope of crimson dawn. As the lyric subject, the poet is not only a simple individual who grew up in the embrace of the motherland, but also a unity of suffering and humiliation, breaking free from fetters and moving towards hope with the motherland.
In this poem, there is a poet's sadness about the tragic history and grim reality of the motherland; And the joy of getting rid of the suffering of the motherland and wanting to fly. It also expressed the poet's deep and warm love for the motherland. As a generation of young people who have experienced setbacks, the poet breathed the fate of the motherland and exchanged his own blood and sweat for the prosperity, glory and freedom of the motherland.
Brief introduction of the author
Shu Ting, a poetess in China, was born in shima town, Longhai City, Fujian Province. 1969 went to the countryside to jump the queue, 1972 went back to the city as a worker, 1979 began to publish poetry works, 1980 worked as a professional writer in Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Shu Ting rose in the China poetry circle in the late 1970s. She and her contemporaries, such as Kitajima, Gu Cheng and Liang, set off a wave of "misty poetry" in China's poetry circles with different poetic styles from their predecessors, and they are the representatives of the misty poetry school. His main works include poetry collection "Double Mast Boat", "Singing Iris", "Archaeopteryx" and prose collection "Heart Smoke".