In the early morning, in the black grass nest, the golden light shone on the broken straw mat, and the bitch gave birth to a litter of puppies. Seven puppies with brown fur.
She kept kissing her children and licking them until dusk.
Like snowflakes melting into water drops, milk flows out under her warm stomach.
At night, the rooster squatted on the warm stove. The sad master came and put seven puppies in a bag.
Bitch running in the rolling snow, tracking the master's footsteps. Ripples have long appeared on the unfrozen water.
She licked the sweat from her ribs and staggered home. The crescent moon over the hut, she thought it was one of her puppies.
Looking up at the blue night sky, she gave a sad cry. The faint crescent moon slipped away and hid in the field behind the mountain.
So she was silent, as if she had been hit by a stone. As if hearing sarcastic words, tears flowed out, just like Venus falling into the snow.
Appreciation of Dog Song
Song of Dogs vividly expresses the bitch's joy in giving birth to her son, her worry about losing her son, her sadness about losing her son, and her anger after mistaking the moon for her son in one day. At the same time, it makes the love of her mother who has broken her heart for the next generation visible and tangible through animal symbols in a materialized way, which may be the mystery of her breathtaking artistic charm.
Although it is a narrative, the poet does not explain everything. Readers can guess these deliberately omitted parts from some details in the poem. The host is "sad", which may imply the difficulty of life; The bitch has been chasing "unfrozen water", suggesting that the puppy has been drowned by its owner. The poet omitted these links in order to focus his pen and ink on describing the bitch's modality and express her deep affection and grief from the psychological level, just like describing a person.