Original "I Love This Land" Modern Ai Qing:
If I were a bird.
I should also sing with a hoarse voice.
The land hit by the storm.
This river will always flow with our sadness and anger.
This endless wind,
And the gentle dawn in the forest-and then I died.
Even feathers rot in the ground.
Why do I often cry?
Because I love this land deeply.
This poem begins with "if" and uses "hoarseness" to describe the singing voice of birds, and then continues to write the singing content, from singing before death to writing that birds return to the world after death, and finally replaces the image of birds with the poet's own image, which directly expresses the poet's sincere and ardent patriotism.
Appreciate:
This is an important feature that distinguishes Ai Qing's free verse creation from other free verse writers (such as Field). The poem "I Love This Land" is no exception. If you look at the modifiers such as "sadness", "fierceness" and "softness" specially added before the headwords such as land, river, wind and dawn, you can get a glimpse of the mystery.
These long sentences describing landscapes such as land and rivers mentioned above can be said to be the third layer of reinforcement. Just when the author was impressed by his constant singing-tenacious vitality, the poem suddenly took a big turn. After the dash, it highlighted "I am dead" and made the body fertile.
Thus, before and after death, there is a strong contrast, and in this strong contrast and contrast, the persistent love of the "bird" for the land is that it was born in Sri Lanka, sang in Sri Lanka, buried in Sri Lanka, and read here until death does us part.