Han Niu's poem Snowy Night

north

On a snowy night

A companion

Send me a pack of charcoal.

He knows that I am cold and poor.

I have no fire.

homeland

Are you cold, too

I can imagine myself as a pile of charcoal.

burn ...

People can't help but think of Lu You's poem "Confession" when he was at home in his later years: "Wan Li searched for seals and guarded Liangzhou with horses. Where is the dream of closing the river, the dust darkens the old mink and fur. The Hu people are still alive, the temples are frosty in autumn, and the affectionate tears are dry. Who knows that in this life, my heart is in Tianshan and I am old. " In this poem, I look back on the past when Wan Li joined the army and express the grief and indignation of his motherland. In just a few lines, he wrote Lu You's patriotic life. Similarly, for 24-year-old Han Niu, although he is no better than Lu You, whose heart is in Tianshan Mountain and his body is in Cangzhou, he is young and patriotic, but he has nowhere to show off. So, on a snowy night in the north, when a "companion" came to Han Niu, which was cold, poor and without fire, with a pack of charcoal, he couldn't help thinking of his motherland. The motherland is imagined as a person here. The poet felt cold and someone gave him "a pack of charcoal". What about the motherland? The lyrical subject "I" in the poem would rather "treat myself as a pile of charcoal" and "burn up" when the motherland is cold, and a child's patriotic feelings are vividly on the paper. From the lyrical aspect, Han Niu's Snowy Night is not as tragic as Lu You's Resentment for Love, but it has the same effect, which truly and accurately expresses the strong patriotic feelings of the lyricist.

First, let's look at the topic. The Night of Snowfall-The snow falls silently, and it is night again. There is energy and depression in silence. What happens at such a night party? The ingenious combination of moving (falling snow) and static (night) not only aroused readers' desire to read, but more importantly, made preparations for creating the atmosphere of the whole poem. Now let's look at the structure of this poem. The whole poem is divided into two sections. The first section is the poet's personal intuition in real life; After intuition, the poet's brush strokes changed, from "I" to "the motherland", and the leap of poetry was realized in the poet's subjective psychological activities, from which the aesthetic feeling of poetry came. The middle hop is connected with "cold". My "cold" is heated by "poverty" and "no fire". Is it also the "cold" of the motherland? "Cold" is a word to express feelings, which appropriately narrows the distance between lyric subject and lyric object. Through analysis, we find that the structure of this poem can be summarized as such a pattern: reality ("I")-emotion (patriotism)-reality ("motherland"). Reality is always externalized, while emotion is internalized. Internalized emotion (patriotism) is artistically expressed as externalized reality (image carried by language) through language materials, and a poem is born.