To the Cloud is a lyric poem written by Bai Bing, the propaganda officer of the Political Department of the General Hospital of Beijing Military Region. Poetry fully reflects the desire of contemporary teenagers for freedom and personality development. This is a simple and kind children's poem.
The original poem is as follows:
You get smaller if you want to, and you get bigger if you want to,
Small, as small as a handkerchief, like a white flower;
Bigger, big enough to cover the whole world.
No one is drawing a frame for you under the blue sky.
You can be anything you want, deer, elephant, bird, frog. ...
Even if you become a pig, no one will laugh.
Even if you become a bear, you don't worry about being scolded.
No one wants you to be honest and be a "smart" fool.
Do what you want,
If you want to be a rain, you can be a rain. Kiss the grass and flowers.
If you want to make snow, you can make snow, like a white butterfly, flying to thousands of households;
Then, turn into transparent steam, fly and fly back to your hometown in the sky.
No one has turned you into a robot doll with many "arrangements" and "plans" ...
Ah, let me also become a free and happy cloud!
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"To the Cloud" is selected from China Children's Volume, a literary masterpiece at all times and all over the world. It is a children's poem (1990) written in the first semester of grade seven by Qingdao Publishing House.
In the form of a child's tone and dialogue, the poem expresses the yearning for the changefulness and freedom of the cloud, reflects the child's desire for freedom, and hopes to get rid of the pressure and bondage from parents and teachers. So this poem is easy to get emotional.
The poet wrote this poem in a child's tone, which made the language of the poem simpler. The poet skillfully expresses the feelings of young people with the help of images such as "frame", "clever fool" and "robot doll".
Some antithetical sentences, such as "You can be small if you want to be small, but you can be big if you want to be big", "You can be whatever you want to be" and "You can do whatever you want", are catchy, beautiful in music, and easy to read the characteristics of free, carefree and arbitrary clouds. ?
In addition, the poet also uses various images such as handkerchief, white flower and pig's eight quit to compare the cloud, and uses anthropomorphic techniques such as kissing and exaggerated techniques such as covering the whole world, which are vivid, childlike and full of association and imagination.