On the Poem Ode to a Red Candle

The poem "Red Candle" is a poem with the same name as the collection of poems, and it is the preface of the collection of poems "Red Candle". In this poem, the red candle is a poet, and the poet is a red candle. "Red candle! Mo Wen harvests, but requires cultivation. "It is not only the refinement of the red candle spirit, but also the poet's encouragement to himself: sacrifice and selfless dedication. Every paragraph of the poem begins with the call of "Red Candle", forming a rich lyrical atmosphere, followed by self-questioning, since the enlightenment, self-answering and self-encouragement, which shows persistent pursuit step by step and has strong appeal. Section 1 The poet admires the glowing red candle. " Red is a symbol of sincerity. In the poet's eyes, red candle is the embodiment of ideal personality. He put forward a self-requirement: the poet's heart should be so red. We feel the poet's pure heart and passionate patriotic feelings. "Man and materialization, meaning and environment blend", it can be said that red candle is a poet and a poet is a red candle. Understanding this is helpful to grasp the thoughts and feelings of the whole poem. The second and third stanzas eulogize the spirit of "Red Candle" sacrificing oneself for others, and the poet vividly shows a process of thinking and awakening by asking questions and answering himself. Two diametrically opposite answers show the awakening of the poet, and at the same time show the value of the red candle spirit more powerfully. The poet compares wax to the body and fire to the soul. Of course, the body and soul should be interdependent, so a question arises: "Why do you have to burn wax to ashes to shine?" "At first I felt very puzzling. The poet thinks this is really "contradiction", self-contradictory and incomprehensible. However, the poet finally realized, "There is nothing wrong, nothing wrong! It turned out to burn out your light-"The poet understood the red candle and sincerely praised its dedication. The poet's thinking actually reflects the contradictions and inspirations encountered by the progressive young people in that era in the ideological process of exploring the true meaning of life.

The fourth section is the poet's warm message to the red candle, which is also the poet's self-encouragement. If you build it, you will burn it. The value of life lies in dedication. To live is to let the fire of life burn, and let wisdom and talent shine. The poet got inspiration from the image of red candle and expressed his beliefs and wishes. At that time, the people were deeply poisoned by imperialism and feudalism. For example, the poet thinks that he has the responsibility to wake up the world from his dream, save its soul, awaken the people and liberate them from the spiritual shackles of imperialism and feudalism.

In verses 5-7, the poet turned to thinking about the tears of candles and comforted the red candle. The poet first revealed a very contradictory phenomenon by personification: "The time when your heart shines is the day when your tears begin." The poet's attention turned to tears, and then the poet kindly asked Red Candle, "Why are you crying?" Poet's sympathy, curiosity and thinking. This reflects the contradictions, pains and struggles in the poet's heart in real life. After some searching, the poet suddenly realized that there was still a "lingering wind", which implied reactionary forces. The red candle shed tears because of the unstable flow, which shows that the poet himself has a good wish to save the motherland, and because of the obstruction of the dark reactionary forces, he feels that his ambition is difficult to be rewarded and cries for the world. However, the tears of red candle will not flow in vain. The poet exhorted, "Please pour your cream into the world, cultivate the flower of comfort and bear the fruit of happiness!" " "

Verses 8 and 9 call for sympathy and persuasion and encouragement. "Be discouraged, shed tears for your fruits and create a bright career for you." How unfair and unreasonable this causal relationship is, but in such a society, life can only be sacrificed and selfless. The poet exhorts the red candle, that is, exhorts himself: "Red candle! Mo Wen harvests, but requires cultivation. "Poetry is condensed and sublimated. This is the concentrated expression of Wen Yiduo's personality beauty. He loves the motherland and the people, regardless of personal gain and loss, honor and disgrace. He is extremely great and noble.

The whole poem takes the heart-to-heart communication between the poet and The Red Candle as a clue, and expresses feelings in the form of questions and answers, which highlights the poet's patriotic spirit of dedicating himself to the motherland and daring to sacrifice himself. When it comes to red candles, there is always imagination: on a dark summer night, there are several frogs. The cruise ship swayed gently on the surface of Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, and the faint candlelight only lit up the small cabin, but it was still struggling tenaciously with the old forces. A big hand pointing the country gently tugged at the wick, and suddenly it was full of sparks, riding the wind and turning into stars in the sky. One, two, three ... gather more and more, and instantly interweave into a fiery red sun, rising from the east of the world and awakening the sleeping lion.