I recently read Ai Qing's Towards the Sun, and it has been half a century since the author wrote this poem. As a devout and young reader of To the Sun, I can still feel the poet's inner surge when the sun comes, and I can still deeply understand the sublimity and radicality when the poet wrote this poem. Perhaps this is what Eliot said: "Historical consciousness contains an understanding, not only understanding the past, but also understanding the existence of the past."
Over the past decades, there have been many sensational poems in China's poetry circles, which often lose their "sense of existence" within a few years. Most of these short-lived poems are works lacking artistic sincerity and strong utility. In recent ten years, there have been many such short poems. To the Sun can be a poem that can stand the strict deletion of history precisely because it can make today's readers understand the existence of history and profound life enlightenment.
In this chapter, the author writes from yesterday to a brand-new day. The sun symbolizes a new beginning, a kind of liberation, a kind of release and a kind of hope. They also sincerely pray that this sunshine will never go out, leaving their descendants and Chinese descendants with orange sunshine mixed with their deep red blood and sallow skin. So the author says that the sun is beautiful and eternal.
In the sun, the poet has completely surpassed all his painful memories, showing us the beautiful scene that nature once twisted the painful soul in the sun and praising the tall image of the injured soldier. The poet said that he was "more beautiful than the bronze statue of Napoleon" because it was the truest gesture in the sun. In the square, people shouted "Look at us/us/smile at the sun/". The girls are carrying donation bags and singing fresh songs. The sun shines on their proud breasts and bare arms. They, they, bathed in the afternoon sunshine, enjoyed the sunshine and cherished it.
These heartfelt words and songs, without any exaggeration or exaggeration, have become the past, and plain confession can make readers feel the heavy and strong lyrical charm of history from the concise situation of poetry.
The residual pain in life can only show that it takes a long time to stand up. These physical and psychological feelings that anyone can really feel can actually arouse readers' association and thinking, thus making plain poetry have great tension and gravity. In fact, this joy of waking up with tears, interwoven with the pain of last night and the life of welcoming the dawn, can only be considered as the poet's own review of life. This should be regarded as the voice of a child who is fighting with the sons and daughters of Qian Qian to save the country's danger and destiny.
People at that time especially cherished the sunshine, not because of the bad weather at that time, but because they fought for it. Now, under the care of sunshine, do we also cherish the sunshine?
I think this is also a patriotic meaning. Cherish what our predecessors left behind and carry forward what we have now, just to make this ray of sunshine more gorgeous, brighter and more dazzling.