The author's forefinger "believes in the future"
When cobwebs mercilessly sealed my stove.
When the smoke of ashes sighs the sorrow of poverty
I still stubbornly smooth away the ashes of disappointment.
Write with beautiful snowflakes: believe in the future.
When my purple grapes turn into dew in late autumn
When my flowers snuggle up to other people's feelings
I still stubbornly use frosted vines.
Write on the desolate land: believe in the future.
I want to use my fingers to stir the waves that rush to the horizon.
I will hold the sea holding the sun with both hands.
The warm and beautiful pen flickers with the dawn.
Write with a child's pen: believe in the future.
I believe in the future.
Yes, I believe that people's eyes in the future
She brushed away the eyelashes of history.
She has a student who can read through the years.
No matter what people think of our rotting bodies.
Those lost blues, the pain of failure.
It was tears of emotion and deep sympathy.
Or give a contemptuous smile and bitter ridicule?
I firmly believe that people are interested in our spine.
Countless explorations, lost ways, failures and successes.
I will definitely give a warm, objective and fair evaluation.
Yes, I am anxiously waiting for their comments.
Friends, believe in the future.
Believe in indomitable efforts
Young people who believe in overcoming death.
Believe in the future and love life.
1968 Beijing
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A symbol of the undercurrent of the times. The author's mood at that time (1968) can be understood as the dawn of the times: symbolizing hope. Under the background of the Cultural Revolution at that time, people's hearts were gloomy. During the Cultural Revolution, it was almost a blank period in the history of China literature. However, folk creation stubbornly survived. The forefinger is one of the outstanding folk poets and an outstanding poet who fills the historical gap. The forefinger (1948-), formerly known as Guo Lusheng, is the author of poetry anthology Believe in the Future, Modern Lyrics of the forefinger, Black Spring, Book of Poetry Exploration, Poems of the forefinger and so on. The poem Believe in the Future was written in 1968. With its profound thoughts, beautiful artistic conception and catchy poetic style, this poem lets people know how to live a good life in adversity, how to encourage themselves, and how to unswervingly abide by the promise of tomorrow! This poem was widely circulated in the society in the form of a manuscript and soon spread among a generation of young people. At the beginning of the poem, several images such as "cobweb", "stove", "smoke" and "ashes" are used to describe the barren, poor and difficult times people live in. No matter who has not experienced that era, there will be a strong sense of suffering in my heart. The poet "wrote with beautiful snowflakes: believe in the future", which not only symbolizes purity and simplicity, but also conveys a clear consciousness; The firmness of unyielding reality is particularly true: this is a belief that rises from a difficult life! The second section uses purple grapes, dewdrops in late autumn, flowers, other people's feelings and withered vines to write the experience of life being bright and dim, frustrated with enthusiasm and full and tired, which evokes people's association with all the frustrations, loneliness and disappointments in life. The poet's personality power of "writing on a desolate land: believing in the future" cannot but strongly shock everyone. The third sentence, "I want to use my fingers to clear the waves rushing to the horizon/I want to use my hands to hold up the sea holding the sun", with great strength, wide scope and fierce momentum, shows the poet's full pride. The phrase "a warm and beautiful pen flickers with the dawn" compares "dawn" to "pen", which is imaginative. "Write with a child's pen: believe in the future" expresses the poet's sincere and frank thought: this is a belief that rises from the heart. These three verses, one chanting and three sighing, "Believe in the future" are like the main theme of a piece of music, playing the strongest sound in the poet's heart. In that gloomy and painful era, I believe that the future has cast a light of hope in people's hearts. I think that most of the educated youth who came from that era can also be said to be a generation. It will still hurt to reread Believe in the Future at any time! The index finger "believes in the future", which is cruel, stubborn, painful and scarred, is a firm and unyielding belief in the future in a painful reality. It is also the most moving core of this poem. If this poem only has the first three verses, it is not enough to express the profound thoughts of the index finger. In the next three verses, the forefinger combines his "belief" in the "future" with his sober understanding of mankind. First of all, the poet believes that "the eyes of future people" can "push aside the dust of history" and "see through the chapters of the years". The two images of "eyelashes" and "pupils" come from "eyes" and vividly depict the thinking expression of future people, while "pushing away" and "seeing through" praise the greatness of human wisdom. The reason why poets believe in the future lies in this thinking image. Secondly, poets don't care about people's praise or criticism of our bodies and experiences. The three concrete images or expressions of "carrion", "lost melancholy" and "pain of failure" convey the sufferings of real people; The four details of "moved tears", "deep sympathy", "contemptuous smile" and "pungent ridicule" show people's expressions of various evaluations of the past history, which are vivid and accurate with their pens. Thirdly, the poet firmly believes that "people will give a warm, objective and fair evaluation of our spine" in the future. "Backbone" is unyielding belief and exploration spirit, which is embodied in "countless explorations, lost ways, failures and successes". These three poems discuss the deep-rooted belief in the future. It is based on this understanding that the poet undoubtedly "believes in the future" and "anxiously waits for their evaluation". In the last paragraph of the poem, people are encouraged to "believe in unyielding efforts/young people who overcome death/believe in the future and love life" with enthusiastic shouts. Poetry declares war on the reality of suffering with irrefutable momentum and fearless spirit. The belief in the "future" came out of generate like the sun on the sea, which strongly shocked the soul of every reader. This poem is ingeniously conceived. The first three sections describe how I "believe in the future", the last three sections describe why I "believe in the future", and the last section calls on people to work hard, love and live with faith in the future. Simple language, profound thoughts; Distinctive personality and convincing. The whole poem basically follows the traditional way of getting touching effect in the constant change of light and heavy sounds; Combining the time art of language with the space art of Chinese painting, the art of "My poem is a window, and the window contains thousands of autumn snow in Xiling" that the poet has repeatedly told. Read through this poem, although we feel more depressed than relaxed; Not happiness, but pain. But from the poet's depressed and painful singing, we also really feel the poet's soul-stirring belief-longing for a better future and always fighting for ideals and light. On the spider web image in poetry in life "spider web" appears in places where people's activities have disappeared for a long time. These places are often covered with dust, giving people a gloomy or gloomy tone, lifeless and lifeless; The personal feeling brought by the image prefix "net" is a kind of "bondage" of the whole body, so the use of the word "seal" in the poem is obviously a symbolic promotion of the image information of "bondage". Therefore, the image of "cobweb" contains three kinds of contextual information: gray tone, lifelessness and bondage. The reason why my stove takes "my stove" as the image is because the word "mine" is more in line with the definition of "image": it incorporates the objective image of "the poet's subjective feelings". Believe in the future was written in the north, and so was the forefinger. In the three northeastern provinces, it will snow on October 1 in the solar calendar, and heating is one of the very daily lifestyles of northerners. When there is no heating supply, the stove is a tool for heating in people's daily life, which brings people a kind of daily warmth. Therefore, My Fireside can be understood as all the life that brings warmth to my heart, and then it is transformed into my enthusiasm, hope and even ideal for life. All these are now ruthlessly sealed up by the ubiquitous "gloomy", "lifeless" and "bound" external society. The residual smoke of ash "ash" and "residual smoke of ash" bring people completely different feelings: "ash" is static, dark and lifeless; The central word of "ember smoke" is "ember smoke", which is dynamic, curling up from "ember smoke", giving people a slight sense of movement and hope that it may burn, so "ember smoke" represents hope in a dead silence. Although life is like ashes, there are still "sighs" like "smoke" showing the breath and hope of life. The beautiful snowflake "snowflake" is first of all the "beauty" in the poet's heart, which constitutes the bright color and pleasure in the soul; Secondly, the white of "snowflake" and the gray tone of "cobweb" are in sharp contrast with the black tone of "gray", which brings joy, optimism and hope. Third, snowflakes can cover dirty land, make the whole world look brand-new and give people a brand-new future. Purple grape "grape" is a sweet harvest in summer, and the most mature grape is purple, so it can be said that "purple grape" is the sweetest harvest when people are full of vitality. At the same time, purple is also a noble life color, which comes from indomitable and tenacious vitality in suffering. When the poet wrote Believe in the Future, he was twenty years old, which was the season of vigorous and brilliant. The poem "Believe in the Future" itself is the poet's best harvest in this season of life, and the poet also survived the hardships of life, so the two analyses of "The Color Purple" here are consistent with the poet's writing context. The dew in late autumn dominates the cold air in autumn, and "late autumn" is the season when everything withers. Although "dew" is pure, its nourishment for life is indeed limited. In this cold season, any sign of trouble can erase its existence and easily disappear. Therefore, "the dew of late autumn" symbolizes the fragile existence of things that are easy to disappear and even people, in order to match the connotation of "purple grapes". Under the hint of "feelings", my flowers naturally point to success, honor and opportunities or platforms to obtain them. "My flower" refers to the opportunity, honor and success that originally belonged to me or I should have, and now it has become "someone else". As the name implies, coagulated rattan refers to dead rattan without vitality. Although the condensed vines can no longer nourish the life of withered vines, the poet's choice of condensed vines to write shows his inner stubbornness-stubbornness in the hope of life, even if it is very vague. The desolate land "the earth" is the eternal mother, the eternal place of life and death. Although it is "bleak" now, the reactionary will soon perish, the just will see the light again, and the vitality of the earth cannot be erased. The property of wave discharge is "rushing to the horizon", which is an infinite momentum and strength. The attribute of the sea is "holding the sun", which is a vigorous and broad tolerance and mind. Dawn "Dawn" is the sunshine in the morning. Sunlight is the source of life for the growth of all things, and the "morning" sunshine symbolizes the dark past and the arrival of dawn. The poet "shines" with the sunshine in the morning, with the conviction of beautiful vitality and the conviction that the dark time will disappear. People's eyes These are the eyes of people in the future, "She has eyelashes to brush away the dust of history" and "She has pupils to see through the chapters of the years", that is, the poet believes that people in the future have a kind of rationality to brush away the fog of history. Rotten meat refers to "the sadness of loss and the pain of failure" By comparing the back "spine", we can know that these sorrows and pains are superficial wounds and temporary difficulties. Our spine refers to "countless explorations, lost, failures and successes". The "spine" supports the human body and is generally used to symbolize the backbone of a nation. Here, it is internalized as the spiritual pillar of a group "we", and these spiritual "explorations" are undoubtedly the exploration of the way out for a troubled nation. The poet believes that people in the future will make a warm, objective and fair evaluation of their own harm and beneficial exploration with historical rationality. The author introduces the forefinger, formerly known as Guo Lusheng. 1948 was born in Shandong Chaocheng. His mother gave birth to a child during the March, so she was named Lusheng. 1955: Seven-year-old Guo Lusheng entered school. When he was in the third grade, he wrote his first poem: "Birds are flying in the treetops, and March 8 is here. In this happy festival, say hello to the teacher and aunt. " 1964: the failure of junior high school made him taste the hardships of life for the first time, knowing that he was not admitted, and suddenly a lot of white hair grew on his head the next day. 1967: I went to the middle school attached to Agricultural University and passed by farmland. I saw a ditch not called a ditch and a river not like a river. There is only a thin river in the middle, which reminds me of how fish (including themselves) live under the ice without seeing the sun. Write the first part of the fish trilogy. 1968: Golden Year of Creation, with his masterpieces Believe in the Future, Ocean Trilogy and This is Beijing 4: 08. 1969: Sui21Beijing educated youth settled in Xinghua Village and jumped the queue. I was interested in exercising myself. At that time, it was worth one yuan and ten cents, and I earned two hundred dollars that year. 197 1 year: joined the army in Jining and wrote a lot of poems reflecting the life of the army. 1973: Retired in February, depressed, diagnosed as schizophrenia by the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University. 1975: She recovered from illness, married (Li's daughter) and divorced seven years later. 1976: After the "Cultural Revolution", I wrote When a Friend Got Married, also known as There was such a wedding. Chen Kaige used this poem as an interview recitation when he applied for the Film Academy. 1978: Rejuvenating the poet's creativity, using the pen name index finger for the first time means that the guidance behind others will never hurt a poet with a sound personality. 1990: entered the third welfare home in Beijing. Wipe the corridor and wash the dishes every day, keep the minimum living expenses and smoke low-priced cigarettes. 1992: Invited by the Dutch Poetry Festival and an English university, but not for physical reasons. 1993: Joined the Beijing Writers' Association, and published "Collection of Modern Lyrics of Heidachun" on the index finger in May 1997: Joined the Chinese Writers' Association, China cultural circles published five articles by Lin Mang, He Jingxian and Li Hengjiu on the topic of Guo Lusheng, which caused great repercussions in the society. Guo Lusheng's Believe in the Future, a poem with forefinger, spread like wildfire in China with its profound thoughts, beautiful artistic conception and catchy poetic style, and quickly spread among a generation of young people. But in that particular era, the fate of his martyrs was doomed almost from the beginning. Jiang Qing read Believe in the Future, and she was shocked and annoyed by the independent and uninhibited personality of the poem. She must find "firm belief in the future/indomitable efforts/young people who overcome death/future and life?" "reactionary" poet. As a result, a reactionary poet's hat was heavily buckled on Guo Lusheng, who was only 19 years old. Bad luck arrival? Poets are subjected to strict scrutiny and criticism. Guo Lusheng grew up in an orthodox revolutionary cadre family. Just as he was hit one after another, just before he saw that the whole society was distorted by a kind of politics and expressed strong dissatisfaction in his poems, he still had a deep attachment to the country. When the masters of misty poetry are still ignorant, the forefinger has written an epoch-making chapter. His works basically follow the traditional way of four lines and one paragraph, seeking touching effects in the constant change of light and heavy sounds. He combined the time art of language with the space art of Chinese painting, and realized the artistic pursuit of "My poem is a window, and the window contains thousands of autumn snow in Xiling". His poems are simple, without flashy language. The early representative work "This is Beijing at 4: 08" is still deeply moved by readers. This work describing separation was written in the upsurge of a large number of young intellectuals going to the countryside. The poet began to create this work on the train to jump the queue in Shanxi, and later it was edited and became a masterpiece. In Guo Lusheng's view, everything in this world is poetry, but there are too few happy poems or happy poems in this poem. Although his hobby of alcohol and tobacco made him pay a lot, he also wrote two beautiful and moving poems on the topic of "smoke" and "wine": the dream of the future floated in the lit cigarette, and the blue clouds were the dawn of hope. But now this wisp of smoke has become a sadness in my heart, and the rain has merged into a low cloud. I pushed open the bright glass window to welcome the breeze in the suburban fields. How I want to keep the floating smoke-that's the figure you said goodbye to me. 1968-"Smoke" red wine pulp seems to be a glass full of crazy enthusiasm, but now this glass is shaking in my excited hands, and you have a pair of beautiful eyes. I was intoxicated with joy, but I drank this cup for peace of mind. Looking at his poems, although we feel more depressed than relaxed; Not happiness, but pain. But in that kind of depression and pain, we can also see that he is always yearning for and longing for the light, and he is fighting for the ideal and light.