To the Oak Tree is a modern poem by China poet Shu Ting. The original text of this poem is as follows:
If I love you-I will never show off on your high branches like climbing Campbell;
If I love you-I will never learn from spoony birds and repeat monotonous songs for the shade;
It is not only like spring, but also brings cool comfort all year round; It is not just like a dangerous peak, it increases your height and sets off your dignity.
Even sunshine, even spring rain. No, these are not enough!
I must be a kapok beside you, standing with you as a tree.
Roots, close to the ground; Leaves, touching in the clouds.
Every time a gust of wind passes, we greet each other, but no one understands us.
You have your copper branches and iron stems, like a knife, like a sword, and like a halberd;
I have my red flowers, like a heavy sigh and like a heroic torch.
We share cold waves, storms and lightning; We like mist, flowing mist and rainbow.
Seemingly separated forever, but dependent for life.
This is great love, and loyalty is here:
Love-not only love your stalwart body, but also love your stand and the land under your feet.
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To the Oak Tree is a beautiful and profound lyric poem written by Shu Ting. The poet ingeniously chose two central images, kapok and oak, which reflected delicate, euphemistic and deep feelings in novel and vivid images. The love it expresses is not only pure and hot, but also noble and great. It is like an old and fresh song, which touches people's heartstrings.
The poet takes the oak tree as the object, expressing the passion, sincerity and firmness of love. The oak tree in the poem is not a concrete object, but an ideal lover symbol of the poet. Therefore, this poem, to some extent, does not simply pour out one's passionate love, but expresses one's ideals and beliefs about love. It is expressed through a kind and concrete image, which is quite meaningful to the ancients.
Oak is tall, charming, deep and rich in connotation-"high branches" and "shade" are the same meaning, and the method of setting off is adopted here. Poets don't want the love of vassals, nor do they want to be a smug flower attached to the high branches of oak trees. Poets don't want to give love, to be a bird that sings for the shade all day, to be a fountain of wishful thinking, and to be a mountain that blindly supports the oak tree. The poet doesn't want to lose himself in such love.
The poet compares himself to a kapok, a kapok standing side by side with an oak tree. The roots and leaves of these two trees are closely connected. The poet's persistence in love is no less than the ancients' "I would like to be a lovebird in the sky, and I would like to live together on the ground, with two branches in one tree." . Oak and kapok stand quietly and firmly. When the wind blows, swaying branches and leaves greet each other and they are connected. That is the language of their world, their inner harmony and silent understanding.
Poetry expresses the poet's ideal view of love with novel and magnificent images and appropriate metaphors. The metaphor and peculiar image combination in the poem represented the new form of poetry at that time, which was of groundbreaking significance. In addition, although novel images are used in poetry, the language of poetry is not obscure, but colloquial, with fresh aura and subtle hints in novelty, giving people unlimited imagination.
The whole poem is bright, beautiful, refined, generalized and condensed, and the author uses the expression technique of quasi-materialization of lyric subject. The object of the poem is oak, but kapok. The style of writing is also unique. Instead of depicting the beauty and straightness of Kapok's appearance, it uses a series of subtle metaphors to compare Kapok's personality, characteristics, beliefs and ambitions from all angles.
Then, psychologically, she further exposed her love view and described it from the personality characteristics. In the description, the two images of "sigh" and "torch" are compared, which further shows Kapok's plump personality. Then compare the images of "cold wave" and "fog" to contrast and render the typical environment of love images of kapok and oak.
This shows kapok's love for oak trees in all directions. Clever artistic contrast, vivid image and implicit and gentle tone constitute the independent characteristics of the whole article. At the end of the poem, the virtual and the real are in harmony, which is profound and philosophical, develops the theme, rationally sublimates kapok's love view, reflects the image symbolizing love with the light of ideal, and makes kapok's loyal and beautiful image more lofty, plump, beautiful and vivid.