: the poem "Far and Near".

Distance (Gu Cheng)

You,

Look back at me,

Watch the clouds later.

I think,

When you look at me from a distance,

You observe the clouds up close.

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This poem is very much like a push-pull lens in photography. It uses the transformation of subjective distance between "you", "me" and "cloud" to express the habitual fear between people and the intimate relationship between man and nature.

This contrast is not without tendentiousness, which implies the poet's desire for human nature to return to nature. -Gu Cheng

At the same time, this poem also talks about distance, and talks about two kinds of remoteness. One is the remoteness of distance, but it is a soul mate. Such as between clouds and people. Another is the distance between heart and heart. Although the distance is close, the heart is far from the heart. This may also express the poet's unreachable helplessness to him.