Main contents and appreciation of paragraphs in A Farewell to Shadow (Lu Xun).

The poem Farewell to the Shadow was written in September 1924 and included in Lu Xun's prose poetry collection Weeds. A Farewell to the Shadow is the same as other articles in Weeds, such as Tombs, After Death, Dead Fire and so on. Writing strange and mysterious dreams is hard to understand. Only by understanding the social situation at that time and the poet's own ideological modality can we easily understand the significance of poetry. As Lu Xun said in his later years, "I always thought that if you want a paper, it is best to take the whole article, the author and his social state into account, which is more conclusive." 1924 is the second time that Lu Xun was in a period of loneliness and depression. "1The split of New Youth Group at the end of 920 marked the beginning of the low tide of the May 4th Movement. ..... Those young people who were full of blood at the climax of the May 4th Movement and dared to resist the old ethics of the old society became depressed and decadent after the ebb of the May 4th Movement. " "But now why so lonely? Is it that even the youth outside the body is gone, and the youth in the world is getting old? ..... If I have to drag out an ignoble existence in this' void', I will still look for the sad and ethereal youth that passed away, but I might as well be outside. Because if my youth outside is eliminated, my old age inside will wither. " Facing the still "peaceful" market, the increasingly silent youth, as a revolutionary soldier Lu Xun who advocated "animal nature" in the battle, naturally felt lonely. He had to say, "Where are the new comrades?" Call! Farewell to the Shadow is a portrayal of the poet's loneliness and hesitation. Poetry uses symbolism to write a farewell speech from the shadow. This "shadow" is undoubtedly the symbol of the poet himself, and this "person" ("friend") should be a passionate young man in the future golden world. At the beginning of the poem, the silent and decadent young man who used to be in high spirits but now "sleeps till I don't know when" issued a radical cry: "Friend, I don't want to follow you, I don't want to live. /I don't want to! "I don't want to go to heaven, hell and the imaginary golden world. I am willing to face the dark reality and the bleak life, even if I am afraid of "nowhere to wander". However, in the face of reality, the poet's thoughts are contradictory. Where will the real society go? The poet was at a loss. However, the poet is not silent, and he is still moving forward with enthusiasm. " I finally hesitated between light and shade. I don't know whether it is dusk or dawn. ..... I don't know when I will travel alone. "This is the voice of a fighter who is deeply lonely. The last two sections express the poet's firm belief that he is brave in self-sacrifice and does not hesitate to seek self-sacrifice. " I will wander into the darkness without land. ""I want to be just dark ""I want to be just empty ". I am willing to do so, friend-/I travel alone, not only without you,/but also without other shadows in the dark. /Only I am sunk by darkness, and the world belongs to me. "