The whole poem has a plot and a scene, but the plot is small and the scene is fixed on a background. There is a close-up of this scene. The plot is a person's different performance in the snow. The scenes are snow, eleven people's scenes and one person's scenes. Poetry highlights the uniqueness of "one person" in a snowstorm by comparing ten people with one person. This man is the poet's affirmation and hope, and his performance is admirable, which is a spiritual model that can resist all kinds of blows.
This poet wrote this poem at the beginning of February1century in 2000. In the period of great social change in China, various ideas coexist, and the values of secularism, pragmatism, vulgarism and money supremacy are in absolute superiority, while the humanistic spirit is marginalized, the complete personality is despised and the cultural spirit is declining. This poem can be said to be a typical portrayal of the environment of individuals with independent personality in China society during this period. Shangchao Li is a poet with idealistic personality spirit, which is also his own profound experience.
The environment in the poem is bad: the snow is flying all over the sky, which makes people unable to tell the southeast from the northwest. This kind of environment is a test for everyone, which symbolizes a cultural background of secularization tendency. In this context, most people will change. Poets say that they are "inclined" and "ten inverted", in which "ten" is the majority and "one before" is one. Also, most people are weak in this environment: "Ten people saw the lying grass"; And a few people are clear and firm: "A person sees a standing tree". As another poet wrote in the 1990s, "others bend over when they earn money/we bend over when we write poetry". However, a few years later, the situation is not the same. In Amb Lee, a few literate people with independent personality can't control everyone's inclined posture. He can only try to keep his image: "A person stands like a fire/snowflake many years ago without saying a word."
The German philosopher Heidegger once said: "To be a poet in this poor age is to explore the hidden traces of God in chanting. Because of this, poets can express their holiness in an era when the whole world is immersed in the night. " This image of a poet can be found in Shangchao Li. He had a poetic view in the early 1990s: "I know it's hard to stick to an ideal, just like living." But he has persisted for more than ten years. This is a rare place for poets.