To the other side of the mountain again.
Type of work: new poetry
Author: Wang Jiaxin
Source: Changjiang Literature and Art
Original text:
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When I was a child, I used to lie in front of the window and daydream.
-What's that over there?
My mother told me: the sea
Oh, is that the sea beyond the mountain?
So, with a secret wish,
One day, I finally climbed to the top of that mountain.
However, I almost came back crying.
-the other side of the mountain, or the mountain.
On the other side of the mountain, there is a livid face.
Give my fantasy a zero!
Mom, where is the sea?
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Beyond the mountain, it is the sea!
It is a sea of faith.
Today, I didn't expect it.
A seed floating since childhood
But it took root in my heart.
Yes, I am disappointed again and again.
When I climbed to the top of the mountain that tempted me
But I got up my confidence again and again and walked forward.
Because I hear the sea still clamoring for me in the distance.
-The snow-white tide is flowing every night.
Soak my dry heart again and again ...
Beyond the mountain, is it the sea?
Yes!
People, please believe-
After climbing countless mountains.
After overcoming disappointment again and again
You will eventually climb to the top of such a mountain.
Over this mountain is the sea.
This is a brand-new world.
Light up your eyes in an instant ...
Extended data:
About the author:
Wang Jiaxin, a modern poet and professor. 1957 was born in danjiangkou city, Hubei province. 65438-0978 was admitted to the Chinese Department of Wuhan University and began to publish poems. 1982 After graduation, he was assigned to teach in Yunyang Normal College of Hubei Province, and 1983 joined the youth poetry club organized by poetry magazine.
1984 wrote a group of poems, Chinese Painting and Poems on the Yangtze River, which attracted wide attention. 1985 seconded to Beijing Poetry Magazine to edit and publish a collection of poems "Farewell and Commemoration". Since 1986, the poetic style has changed and become more dignified, bidding farewell to youth writing.
1992 went to Britain as a visiting scholar, 1994 returned to China and was transferred to the Chinese Department of Beijing Institute of Education as an associate professor. In 2006, he was hired as a professor by the College of Literature of China Renmin University, and he was a representative poet of China intellectuals' writing since 1990s.
Creative background:
Wang Jiaxin was born at the foot of Wudang Mountain in the mountainous area of northwest Hubei. His parents are primary and middle school teachers. He has lived in five or six places since he was a child, but he has never left the Shan Ye world. For me when I was a child, the world was a quiet campus after school, clear rivers in mountains and rivers, and silent mountains surrounding all this.
However, the author is a teenager who is addicted to fantasy and full of strong curiosity about the outside world. The song Beyond the Mountain was written under this background.
theme
This poem expresses a belief and contains a philosophy. Poets take mountains and the sea as images, the sea as a symbol of ideals, mountains as a symbol of all kinds of difficulties, and climbing mountains as a symbol of hard struggle, thus telling people that the journey to the ideal life is long and bumpy, but as long as we persist in struggle, we will eventually reach the ideal realm.