After graduating from junior high school, Shu Ting went to Shanghangshan Village in Fujian to jump the queue. /kloc-returned to the city as a worker at the end of 0/972. This poem was published in July 1979, but it is said that it was written as early as April 24th 1976, shortly after the May 4th Movement. This poem has a strong sense of history and expresses a kind of pain of hope for light.
Two? Content theme
The whole poem has four sections. In the first section, the poet traces the history of poverty and backwardness of the motherland for hundreds of years with deep sadness and euphemistic twists and turns. The poet summed up the long-term poverty and backwardness of the motherland with dense images such as "shabby old waterwheel" and "black miner's lamp" The second part describes the people's pain and hope. The motherland and people have not lost hope because of "poverty", but hope has been too slim for a long time, like the flowers in the sleeves of "flying", which are beautiful and attractive and have not yet fallen to the ground. The third section depicts the image of the motherland at a turning point in history with a set of images. The new motherland has stood on the "snow-white starting line". The fourth section once again emphasizes the inseparable relationship between "I" and the motherland. The "lost" and "contemplative" poet was full of blood, and she poured out her desire to devote herself to the motherland in heartfelt language.
Three points of appreciation
1? Novelty of image
Poets never find beauty in ordinary things that ordinary people pay attention to. Such as "old waterwheel", "miner's lamp", "roadbed" and "barge", these carefully selected and original images are almost hard to find in previous poems praising the motherland. There are four image group in this poem. Through their progressive combination, it not only expresses the development process of the motherland from suffering to rebirth, but also expresses sympathy for the younger generation with a special emotional process from confusion to deep thinking to boiling.
2? It embodies some characteristics of misty poetry.
In the late 1970s, a group of young poets attracted the attention of the poetry circle with their novel and unique expressions. They boldly explore the artistic field of poetry and express their feelings with unconventional new aesthetic concepts and expressions. They emphasize the poet's subjective feeling of the world and use a lot of imaginative writing methods to abstract poetry from the concrete and pursue the inner melody of poetry; Some of their poems choose strange images, break the order of time and space, capture instant feelings, use jumping structures, and use symbols and metaphors to make people less clear and understandable than in the past. This kind of poetry is called "misty poetry", which has caused controversy in the field of poetry. The appearance of misty poetry is the product of the social and cultural background of contemporary China and the result of the influence of foreign poetry.
Compared with other poems (attached), this poem by Shu Ting is not obscure, but it has the basic characteristics of this kind of poetry, such as attaching importance to the poet's inner expression and using strange writing methods such as synaesthesia, imagery, symbol and metaphor.