1, About the author: Gu Cheng,1was born in the home of Beijing poets on September 24th, 956, and is known as Zuoke's contemporary romantic poet. His early poems are childlike and dreamy, singing fairy-tale teenage life with intuitive and impressive sentences. 1977 started writing again; Joined the Chinese Writers Association from 65438 to 0985; 1988 went to New Zealand to teach China classical literature and was employed as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Auckland; 1993 10 killed his wife Xie Ye in New Zealand apartment and committed suicide. He is the author of poetry anthology Moon in the Day, Selected Lyrics of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Lonely Song of the North, Iron Bell, Black Eyes, etc. His works have been translated into more than ten languages, including English, French, German, Spanish and Sweden.
2. "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light" in Generation.
3. Creation background: This poem was written in April of 1979, published in the third issue of 1980, and later included in the author's poetry collection "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.
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