Teachers and family, when it comes to poetry, which poets' poems do you think of? Perhaps you will think of Li Bai's romantic feelings of "going straight to thousands of feet, suspecting that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days"; Perhaps you will think of the graceful temperament of Li Qingzhao's sentence, "It is said that the spring scenery of Shuangxi is still good, and it is also planned to be a canoe, fearing that the boat will not carry much sorrow"; Perhaps you will think of Su Dongpo's true feelings of "ten years of life and death are boundless, which I will never forget" and his thoughts for his wife ... These poems awaken the closest cultural memory in our hearts, and more importantly, they have traveled through time and space, and Zhi Tao has treasured the feelings of generations of China people.
However, there is another kind of poetry, which uses vernacular in form, breaks the shackles of old-style poetry, reflects new life and expresses new ideas in content, and this is China's modern poetry. There are many famous poems in the history of modern poetry in China, such as Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Cambridge-"I left gently/just as I came gently/I waved my hand gently/bid farewell to the clouds in the western world", and tonight, I want to share the work of our modern poet Ai Qing, "Dress in White at Dawn".
When dawn puts on white clothes
Text/Ai Qing
Between the purple and blue Woods
From blue-gray hillsides to blue-gray hillsides,
Green grassland, flowing grassland-smoke as fresh as emulsion ...
Ah, when dawn wears white clothes,
How fresh the fields are!
Listen,
Yellow light,
Trembling in the last few hours on the pole.
Look!
(Excerpted from Selected Poems of Ai Qing)
There are three adjectives "purple blue", "blue gray" and "green" in the poem. Let us read three very bright and beautiful colors, and a beautiful picture will appear in our mind. Moreover, the poet also pays special attention to the combination of static and dynamic. The first few sentences are static descriptions-Woods, hillsides, grasslands, and the sentence "Smoke flows on grasslands ..." is a dynamic description, and the whole picture will come alive.
Only by reading carefully can we truly enter the artistic conception created by the poet, read poetry, understand the poet and feel the infinite charm of poetry.
Reading Ai Qing's poems, I realize that his poems contain deep and sincere patriotic feelings. He is a singer of land, and land is one of the two most common images in his poems. Ai Qing's love for the land is vividly expressed in his poems.
Ai Qing's truest poems are dedicated to farmers in China. His concern has always been the fate of ordinary farmers who are closely related to China. His masterpiece Dayan River-My Nanny is an ode dedicated by a rebellious son of the landlord class to his real mother, a kind and unfortunate ordinary peasant woman in China.
Ai Qing's poems also show his eager pursuit of light, ideal and a better life, which is concentrated in the image of "the sun". Sun, light, spring and dawn are the "eternal themes" in Ai Qing's poems!
Time flies, the Sri Lankan people have passed away, and poetry will last forever. We are fortunate to live in the beautiful times that poets have dreamed of countless times, and we can read poets' poems and relive that passionate history. These poems, which embody the pulse of the times, moisten our hearts like spring rain.