2. Understanding of "Red flowers are like a heavy sigh and a heroic torch"
Answer:
In the long history of China, most women are tragedies. Some of them are aware of the unfair treatment imposed on them by society, and they also try to resist and change the humiliation brought to them by this unfair fate, but they often end in a tragic ending. Another part of them not only lost their rights as "human beings", but also belonged to the male society as accessories, and they didn't realize it themselves, which undoubtedly increased their own tragic color.
As a woman awakened in the new era, the poetess felt sad and heavy about it, so she sighed heavily. Therefore, the author believes that women, especially the awakened women, should have such profound thoughts and rich emotions besides external beauty, which is also the embodiment of the mature beauty of women's inner beauty.
Hero Torch highlights that women need to have brave and tenacious qualities and warm and friendly attitudes like men in order to bring strength, light and warmth to others. These add up to an ideal and perfect female image.
Source: Two modern poems in the second volume of ninth grade Chinese: Shu Ting's To the Oak Tree.
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The Creation Background of To the Oak Tree
Shu Ting once talked about the creative background of the poem "To the Oak Tree": "In fact, the production of this poem is simple and ordinary." Shu Ting recalled. 1975 Cai Qijiao, an old returned overseas Chinese poet who once helped her a lot in writing, visited Gulangyu Island. One night, while Shu Ting was walking with him, Cai Qijiao told her about the girls she met in her life.
It's bold to talk openly about the girl you liked in the 1970s. Cai Qijiao said that there are beautiful girls, but no talent; Talented girls are not beautiful; Beautiful, talented and fierce, he found it difficult to find a perfect girl.
Shu Ting said that she was very angry after listening to it. She thinks this is male chauvinism and men and women should be equal. So that night, she wrote a poem "Oak Tree" and gave it to Cai Qijiao. Later, when it was published, it was changed to To Oak. "In fact, oak trees in the south can never grow with kapok trees. In this poem, they are used as references for men and women. " She added.