Seagulls on the sea are swimming like brushed white clouds.
You see, the illusory clouds must be the clothes of angels;
I think those angels who travel through heaven must like the excitement and entertainment of this world very much.
With imaginative expression, the poet imagines the starry night sky as a market in the sky with countless street lamps, and the meteor in the air as a cowherd and a weaver girl wandering in the street with lanterns, expressing the poet's yearning for freedom and hope for an ideal society. The whole poem is desolate in style, expressing the poet's pure ideal with natural and fresh language, neat short sentences and harmonious and beautiful rhythm.
Extended data
The Market in the Sky was written on 192 1 year1October 24th, and later included in Guo Moruo's second collection of poems, Starry Sky. The works included in Starry Sky range from 192 1 to 1922 in Japan and Shanghai.
In the early 1920s, the climax of the May 4th Movement had passed, the era of the Great Revolution had not yet arrived, and the poet hesitated in anguish. He is dissatisfied with reality and eagerly looks forward to a better future; Inspired by the brilliant starlight, he wrote this brilliant and rich "Market in the Sky", which showed his blueprint for heaven.