Author: Shu Ting
I am an old waterwheel worn by your river,
Tired songs that have been spun for hundreds of years;
I am a miner's lamp blackened on your forehead,
Do what you do in the tunnel of history;
I am a withered ear of rice; It is a roadbed that has been in disrepair for a long time;
This is a barge on the beach.
Draw the rope deep
Pull into your shoulder;
-the motherland!
I'm 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;
-the motherland!
I'm your new idea,
Just broke free from the spider web of myth;
I am your snow quilt, the germ of ancient lotus;
I am your laughing vortex with tears hanging;
I am the newly painted white starting line;
This is the crimson dawn,
It is sprayed;
-the motherland!
I'm 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!
1April 20, 979
(Selected from "Double Mast Ship", Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1982 edition)
"Motherland, My Dear Motherland" is written by Shu Ting, 1952, from Xiamen, Fujian. In the late 1970s, people began to pay attention to her poems, and soon she became famous in the literary world as a representative of the misty poetry tide. The poems published in this anthology include "Double Mast Ship", "Selected Poems of Shu Cheng" and "Aria". Shu Ting's poems not only have a distinct rebellious spirit of the times, but also have persistent and deep love. They come from the heart and are beautiful, and are known as "songs of the spiritual world".
Motherland, My Dear Motherland is one of Shu Ting's representative works, which aims to express the poet's deep affection for the motherland. Compared with similar poems in the past, it has distinct characteristics and personality of the times-both the confusion, pain and happy hope of contemporary youth and the true feelings of daughter's dissatisfaction and dedication to the motherland. The whole poem is novel in conception and sincere in feelings, which is contrary to the floating and mythical praise of some previous poems and sings the songs of the motherland from a unique angle. As the poem sings: "I am your brand-new ideal,/I just broke free from the spider web of myth", the poet scans the poverty and backwardness of the motherland with the eyes of a naked child and expresses deep sadness with the heart of a boxing daughter: "I am poor,/I am sad. /I am your ancestor/painful hope,/I am a "flying" sleeve/a flower that will not fall to the ground for a thousand years. " After indulging in pain, I express the joy of hope: "I am your brand-new ideal", "I am your tearful smile vortex", "This is a crimson dawn/it is bursting". In order to realize this beautiful hope, the poet expressed a desire for dedication: "Then get your richness, your glory and your freedom from my flesh and blood."
In order to express this deep feeling, the poet adopted a rhythm from low to high. Only when you are low and slow can you cry like complaining, like sadness, like resentment; Only with high pitch and quick action can you be passionate and indomitable. In order to express the poet's blending consciousness and dedication to the motherland, the whole poem adopts the method of alternating blending of subject and object. The subject is the poet's "I" and the object is the "motherland". In the process of the whole poem, let them be integrated-I am the motherland and the motherland is me. The motherland is my pain, and I am the sorrow of the motherland; The motherland is my confusion, and I am the hope of the motherland; I am the whirlpool of tears and laughter of the motherland, and the motherland is soaring and running in my flesh and blood and soul.
Content, emotion and intonation
Section 1: The poor and backward motherland is deep, sad and low.
The second section: pain, the pursuit of the pain of the motherland, hoping to ease.
Section 3: The motherland with new life and hope has lofty hope and joy.
Section 4: The motherland that nurtures dedication is affectionate and powerful.
This is a poem I like very much, praising the motherland. Neither arrogant nor grandiose. The most important thing is the author's true voice from the heart, which is inspiring! ! I hope it helps you.