The mourning was written by the author on 1975, when she was a worker of a construction company. During the Cultural Revolution, due to the social environment and personal frustration, the poet created many works to express his inner pain, and "Regret for the Past" is one of them.
This poem is written by my father, and it is one of the poems in "Facing North". This poem was written after the author learned that his father was persecuted to death. This is a painful mourning work.
This poem is divided into three sections, each with nine lines. The first section describes the poet's life picture when he lives with his father. The poet's family lives in the country. Although they are close to the city, they seem to live in another world. The pace of life there is natural, with flowers, grass, trees, birds, fences and ditches. These are the best memories left by her father. Therefore, when the poet returned to the city, his father left her forever.
The second part is the poet's memory of his father and his imagination of his death. After the poet returned to the city, although he could still see traces of his father's life, those traces had no breath of life. The poet seems to have returned to the countryside where he lives with his father, and he seems to have seen his father working there. However, all this is just memories and imagination, because my father is no longer alive.
The third section is about the poet's memory of his father and his exclamation of the current social situation at that time. At the end of the poem, the poet wrote: "I can never forgive you/my pen was taken away/I swear on my personality/my heart was hit." Although this passage expresses the poet's nostalgia for his father and dissatisfaction with the current social situation, it also implies a kind of resistance. When the poet expressed his memory of his father, he did not beautify him, nor did he invent his glorious image; Nor does it conceal the injustice and oppression suffered by the poet personally and society.
This poem has the following characteristics in writing:
1. Sincere feelings: This poem expresses the poet's nostalgia for his father and dissatisfaction with the current social situation at that time. The whole poem is full of emotion and makes people feel the same.
2. Concise language: Shu Ting's poetic language is concise and clear, without too many flowery words and modifiers. This poem expresses the poet's feelings and thoughts in concise language, which is impressive.
3. Compact structure: This poem is divided into three sections with nine lines each. The first section is memories, the second section is nostalgia and imagination, and the third section is exclamation and resistance. The structure of the whole poem is compact and orderly, which is convenient for readers to understand and feel the poet's emotions and thoughts.
4. Novel form: Shu Ting's poems are novel, diverse and eclectic. Although this poem does not use special rhetorical devices or techniques, it expresses profound thoughts and feelings with simple words and emotions. This simple and profound poetic form is worth learning from.
The characteristics of the times are obvious: this poem was written during the "Cultural Revolution", when the social background and ideological atmosphere were very different from those of today. Through this poem, we can feel the social atmosphere and people's mentality at that time, which is of certain value for understanding the history and culture of that era.