The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light.
Appreciation: Two short poems summarize the psychological course of a generation and express the denial of dark politics and the yearning and pursuit of light. This poem strongly proves that poetry is the essence of art, its ideological content is highly concentrated and its artistic expression is highly purified, which makes it have strength and capacity that novels, essays and other styles do not have.
Title of the work: A Generation
Creation year: 1979
Source: black eyes
Literary genre: misty poetry
Author: Gu Cheng
Creation background: This poem was published in the third issue of Star1April, 1979, and later included in the author's poetry collection Black Eyes. Lorca, a Spanish poet, wrote in the poem "Song of Spanish Constitutional Police": "On this platinum night, the night blackened the night." The author Gu Cheng may have been influenced by this poem. Judging from the author's life course, the "Cultural Revolution" was the background for Gu Cheng to write this poem. Although the political movement of the Cultural Revolution has long faded away, in the minds of those who have experienced it, the Cultural Revolution is still a continuous process, which lasted until the early 1980s.