Barnyard grass is a kind of weed that grows in rice fields. It is a kind of plant with similar appearance to rice, but completely different from rice. Farmers always pull out barnyard grass at work, leaving rice behind. The poet Yu Xiuhua compared himself to barnyard grass, compared the person he loved to rice, and put himself in a very low position in love.
This may be related to Yu Xiuhua's tortuous experience. Known as the "poet with cerebral palsy", she was different from others since she was a child, but it is not difficult to see from the aspects of "living nervously", "taking medicine on time" and "putting herself in when the sun clears" that the silence and vagueness conveyed by the poet belong to her own world.
In the poem, "I'll give you a book about plants and crops and tell you the difference between rice and barnyard grass", which sets plants and barnyard grass against each other and crops against barnyard grass.
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There are many love poems in Yu Xiuhua's poems. Her poems are full of complex meanings, such as the agitation and call of love, the disillusionment and realization of love, etc. Love is not so much the theme of her poems as the core proposition that causes the poet to ask metaphysical questions such as existence, truth and death.
She said: "when I like someone, I am like a barnyard grass, and I can't dispel my inner inferiority." It will be like this from the past to the present, and maybe it will be like this in the future. "
"A barnyard grass will not become rice because it is pulled into the spotlight, because rice is rice and barnyard grass is barnyard grass. No matter how its light, humidity and temperature change, its essence will not change. I think this is the fate of barnyard grass. Because you are a barnyard grass, no matter how careful and dedicated you are, you will face the fate of being pulled out. "
Regarding the poem about rice and barnyard grass, this poem expresses the author's views on love and life, and also shows the author's humble attitude towards life. Because barnyard grass is a weed in farmland, it looks the most beautiful time, and it is indeed the time to get rid of it. It also shows that as a vulnerable group in society, at the best moment of life, they will be as worried about being eliminated by this society as barnyard grass.