The fog wet my wings, but the wind won't make me hesitate again.
Coast, dear coast.
I just said goodbye to you yesterday, and today you come again.
Tomorrow we will meet at another latitude.
It's a storm, a lamp, which connects us together.
Another storm, another lamp, let us divide things again.
I am not afraid of the ends of the earth, so I will be there sooner or later.
You are in my journey and I am in your sight.
Mast Boat is a modern poem written by Shu Ting at 1979. The whole poem borrows the tone of a brig and pours out thoughts to the continuous coast, showing the wandering sentimentality of love and the inner contradictory feelings beyond love, and showing the poet's affirmation of self-worth and his cry for the return of humanity and humanitarianism.
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Creative background:
As a young man who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, Shu Ting was one of the main directors of misty poetry creation. As "underground literature", misty poetry was conceived during the Cultural Revolution. Shu Ting lived in that particularly chaotic era, and the darkness in reality gave her the motivation to write. This poem was written in August 1979, just after the Cultural Revolution, and it is one of the representative works of the author's early "misty poetry" creation.
About the author:
Shu Ting (1952—), a China poetess, was born in shima town, Longhai City, Fujian Province. 1969 went to the countryside to jump the queue, 1972 went back to the city as a worker, 1979 began to publish poetry works, 1980 worked as a professional writer in Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Shu Ting rose in the China poetry circle in the late 1970s.
She and her contemporaries, such as Kitajima, Gu Cheng and Liang, set off a wave of "misty poetry" in China's poetry circles with different poetic styles from their predecessors, and they are the representatives of the misty poetry school. His main works include poetry collection "Double Mast Boat", "Singing Iris", "Archaeopteryx" and prose collection "Heart Smoke".