A Generation"
Author: Gu Cheng
The night gave me black eyes,
I use them to look for light.
The land is curved
The land is curved
I can’t see you
I can only see you from a distance
The blue sky in your heart
Is it blue? True blue
That blue is language
I want to make the world happy
The smile is frozen on my lips
Give it to me Just a cloud
Wipe away the sunny time
My eyes need tears
My sun needs sleep
《A Generation " is a poem written by Gu Cheng, a poet of the Misty School, in Beijing in 1979. This poem is one of the representative works of hazy poetry in the new era and is widely circulated. It expresses the voice of a generation and entrusts its ideals and ambitions - the tenacious desire and persistent pursuit of "light" after experiencing "dark night".
The images appearing in the poem are all very common phenomena in daily life: night, eyes, light. Because of this, this poem has a thoughtful charm.
Comments from famous writers
Wang Qian's "Transparent Carrot--I Read Gu Cheng's "Dark Eyes"": In my opinion, the tragic significance of these two lines of poetry is first reflected On the ahistorical abnormality of the environment. "Dark night", this image covers the vast and indefinite time and space, metaphorizing an abnormal and inhumane time and environment, which itself is a tragedy in the development of historical process, "gave me black eyes" ", it is the result of this tragic forward development. The bearer of tragedy is "I", because "I" is connected between "dark night" and "black eyes" (the derived image of "dark night"). , and "I" passively became the bearer of this disaster. The "black eyes" are actually a concrete form of "alienation", which has gone deep into the tragedy of the irreconcilability between man and the environment. But the more profound tragic meaning is that "I used it to find the light." Here it seems that "I" is in an active position, and there is undoubtedly a spirit of daring to rebel against the "dark night" and search for the light, and adhere to the weapons used. --"It" turns out to be a derivative of "Night". This seems to indicate that this search is bound to fall into a new tragedy. This tragic cycle reveals the violation of the law that people can discover themselves but cannot realize themselves. This has almost become an eternal tragic complex in human spiritual life.
Tang Xiaodu: This poem by Gu Cheng has only two sentences, but it has considerable weight in the history of contemporary poetry. It has high aesthetics due to its high degree of historical generalization and the philosophical light of dialectical thinking. value and strong artistic power.