It means the taste is very strong. It shows that there is a strong smell of vegetation in the woods.
From the text "Father, Woods and Birds" in the fifth volume compiled by the People's Education Publishing House, the author is the modern poet Niu Han.
Excerpt:
My father pointed to a branch of a tree and said to me: "Look there, there is no wind, why are the leaves moving?" I looked carefully, but couldn't find it. The moving leaves. "It still smells like birds," my father said softly, for fear of disturbing the birds. I only smelled the strong smell of bitter vegetation, not any bird smell. "Birds also have smells?" "Yes. There are always a group of birds that spend the night in the woods, and their feathers are warm."
Extended information
Article "Father, Woods and Birds" Through the dialogue between his father and "I" in childhood, it shows his father's familiarity and love for birds, and expresses the theme of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The title of the text is full of pictures and makes people think. The three words "father", "forest" and "bird" are juxtaposed, which not only depicts the scene of my father and "me" watching birds by the woods, but also expresses my father's love for the woods and birds.
The language in this article is full of poetry and thought-provoking, especially the combination of multiple modifiers, which expresses richer feelings. Phrases such as "the calm father standing like a tree", "the deep foggy woods", "the thick bitter smell of vegetation", vividly and appropriately describe the environment of the woods.
Niu Han is one of the representative poets of the "July" school. He began to publish literary works in 1940, mainly writing poems, and in the past 20 years, he also wrote prose. He once served as editor-in-chief of "New Literature Historical Materials", executive deputy editor-in-chief of "China", national honorary member of the Chinese Writers Association, and vice president of the Chinese Poetry Society. His poems such as "In Memory of a Maple Tree", "South China Tiger" and "Half a Tree" are widely read, and he has published "Niu Han Poetry Collection" and so on.
No less than 10 of his poems and essays have been selected into the People's Education Press textbooks and student textbooks in Hong Kong, China and South Korea. His works have been translated into Russian, Japanese, English, French, Korean and other languages ??and published. In China's first poetry reader census held by "Selected Poems", 680,000 readers voted for him. Among the top ten most popular poets, Niu Han ranked fifth.
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