Poets don't like this vastness, and even curse it. Because, where is the end of this dark night? Where can there be a glimmer of light? Poets long for freedom ... prison is the darkest place.
High walls, cells, blocking the sun; Whips and chains dispersed the sun. The night in prison is even darker, it is a bloody night. The poet was imprisoned and his heart was shrouded in the darkness of night; The poet is suffering from illness again, suffering from illness, and his heart is shrouded in darkness.
But under this heavy darkness, the poet's heart is strong and his free will is strong. He can't fight and struggle with darkness with a brush, but he can fight and struggle with poetry. Looking at the dark night, the poet wrote "vastness". There are only eight lines in the poem, but it vividly depicts a kind of artistic conception, which is far-reaching and profound.
The poet's mood and his desire for freedom and light are not directly expressed in the poem, but we have already felt it from the description of this image.
The poem "The Wild" uses symbolic means to put one's feelings in the image. To write about the vastness of the night is to write about the heaviness of the darkness. In fact, the poem "vastness" has a deeper meaning.
That is, this dark night is not only the darkness faced by the poet himself, but also a description of the world faced by the whole China and the whole Chinese nation at that time-this world is a dark world! The poet's desire for freedom and dawn is not only a personal desire, but also the desire of the general public. The poet linked his destiny with that of the masses.
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The poet's broad mind and profound connotation can be felt not only in the poem Vast, but also in other poems written by the poet in prison.
At this time, although the poet has just set foot on the poetry world, he has stepped out of the circle of personal feelings and integrated his personal feelings with those of the nation and the people.
The poem "The Wild" is very short, but it is so real. People not only saw the vast night, but also felt the vast night. The reason why the poet writes so vividly is that the poet's feelings are real and come from the poet's real experience. Without real experience, there will be poetic floating.
The poet put it very well in "On Poetry": "How can we distinguish between' poets' and' people who write poems'?" The former is faithful to his own experience, and he doesn't write anything except the joys and sorrows he once felt (but he doesn't write personal joys and sorrows).
And the latter? Just write a clause. "Be loyal to your own experience" is the principle that poets have always followed, and it also tells the true meaning of how to become a "poet".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Vast (Ai Qing's Works)