1, original work
generation
The night gave me black eyes,
I use it to find the light.
2. Creative background
This poem was written in April 1979, published in the third issue of Stars 1980, and later included in the author's collection of poems, Black Eyes.
Spanish poet? Lorca wrote in the poem "Spanish Constitutional Police Ballad": "On this platinum night, the night is blackened by 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.
3. Appreciation of works
There are only two sentences in the whole poem, and the images in the poem are very common phenomena in daily life: night, eyes and light. Because of this, this poem has a thoughtful charm. Two novel combinations, seemingly contradictory turning points, contain wonderful rationality.
This contradictory logic is the essence of these two short poems. This contradiction is on two levels.
The first level is that the overall image presentation of poetry is contrary to their presentation in people's daily experience. This mainly focuses on the image of the eyes. In the vast darkness, the eyes are the only light. In people's experience, eyes are always a symbol of transparency. However, the eyes in the poem are "black eyes". This is the feeling in the poet's heart and the poet's profound reflection. This feeling is a heartbreaking pain, and it is an accumulation over time. This kind of reflection is heavy, and there is great fear behind it. And these all point to the "dark night"-the background of that era.
The second level of contradiction is the internal contradiction of poetry. This focuses on the image of "light". In such an era, such an environment, such a deep night, poets should look for light. The poet looked for light with his black eyes. This is the horn that poets use to resist the night. This level is also the theme of this poem: the poet should not only reflect on the dark past, pour out the pain in his heart, but also look for it.