Poems on Dead Water-Dead Water is a famous collection of poems by patriotic poet Wen Yiduo, which runs through the complete works with strong patriotic feelings. The poet wrote in his poem: This is a stagnant pool of despair/the breeze can't blow at all/it's better to throw more garbage/throw out your leftovers/……/This is a stagnant pool of despair/this is definitely not the beauty/it's better to let ugliness cultivate/see what world he has created. I remember Zhu Ziqing once said: There is hope in despair. So: Why not throw more garbage/cold food and throw out the leftovers? This huge and profound fantasy impacts the fierce and passionate poet, but the poet pursues emotional restraint, which leads to the unique style of Wen Yiduo's poem Dead Water with regular form and strong emotion.
Wen Yiduo went to the United States to study in his early years. In a foreign country, he returned home two years early 1925 because he could not bear racial discrimination. However, the poet suddenly found that the contrast between imaginary China and reality was so great. There is no "flowery motherland", ruled by warlords, and the working people groan everywhere. Ocean liners on Huangpu River, Eight-Nation Alliance in the Summer Palace, boxes of xx cigarettes, one cigarette shop after another, groups of men with whips, groups of women with little feet, and one treaty after another that humiliated the country. Sad! Pain! Anger! As long as they are China people with conscience and backbone, who can stand it? Who is not angry! Wen Yiduo, a great patriotic poet, deeply condensed his patriotic enthusiasm and anger at reality, as well as his disappointment and sadness at the broken motherland under the melee of warlords into deep and angry poems. Later, regardless of his personal safety, he angrily attended the "Report on the Death of Li Gongpu" and delivered a magnificent speech at the meeting. After the meeting, he was killed by a spy and died heroically. A perfect interpretation of his brilliant life!
Mr. Lu Xun said: "Since ancient times, there have been hard-working people, people who lay down their lives to plead, and people who lay down their lives to protect the law ..." More and more people grope in the dark, look forward to it in pain, and fight in humiliation. "Humen wiped out opium" opened the prelude to the anti-aggression struggle of modern China people. The raging fire that destroyed xx ignited the ambition of the people of China and the arrogance of the invaders. He told the world that the people of China should not be humiliated! The flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the broadsword of the Boxer Rebellion and the gunfire of the Revolution of 1911 all show the indomitable spirit of the people of China and the strong will of the people of China to seek liberation and truth. With the cry of the May 4th Movement and the establishment of the China Producers' Party, the people's revolution in China started a new milestone. A single spark can start a prairie fire. From Nanhu to Zunyi, from Jinggangshan to Yan 'an, the people of China have created a brand-new world with millet and rifles!
Another 60 years have passed, with a flick of a finger. The day of the motherland: the bleak autumn wind is changing the world again today; Motherland: the red rain turns into waves at will, and the green hills are deliberately charming; Children of the motherland: I like to watch thousands of waves of rice and pepper, and heroes are dying everywhere. 60 years of hard work, 60 years of hard work, our motherland resolutely stands in the east of the world and stands on its own feet among the nations of the world!
We are the darling of the motherland and the darling of the new era! How can a high-spirited generation support the magnificent architecture of the great motherland with steel bars and iron bones? Let me, you, him and everyone, study hard and concentrate on learning culture, and turn that indomitable spirit and patriotic enthusiasm into the power to serve our country and dedicate it to my dear China! Motherland, mother! My great China, we will dress you up more beautifully and build you stronger! We want to declare to the world: "China is great! I love China China! "
Reflection on Two Dead Water Poems is by no means Wen Yiduo's best poem, but it is his most depressing one. The reason is only the word "disillusionment". But is his dream really shattered?
To answer this question, we must look beyond the stagnant water to find the answer. Wen Yiduo has a fiery personality. Only his enthusiasm makes him easily disappointed, but he is not easily depressed. With the ideal of saving the world and the people, he thought he could do something to contribute to the bright future of China, but the darkness of reality made him extremely disappointed: he was not prepared for reality. Many foreign students have had this experience, including Lu Xun and Guo Moruo. When you are disappointed, it is ok to talk about despair. But true warriors don't believe in despair. Even if the darkness is dark and thick, they will fight against despair and try to light a candle in the dark without dawn.
Wen Yiduo is such a warrior. He is not a saint. He was too extreme when he wrote about stagnant water. But he did not choose to kill in vain, did not choose to escape, but chose desperate resistance. This is somewhat similar to Lu Xun. Lu Xun was desperate. He has the deepest darkness in his heart. He is unwilling to believe in the goodness of human nature, and even more willing to believe in the evil of human nature. But in the final analysis, there is light in his heart. It is with this bright foundation that he can have the courage to pick up a pen and proudly fight against the darkness. So is Wen Yiduo. In nature, he is a little brighter and more enthusiastic than Lu Xun, and also a little more reckless as a poet. After Dead Water, he wrote Red Candle and wrote "Suddenly there was a thunderbolt/a loud noise/our China." He always believed in light, so he single-handedly confronted the intimidation of secret agents, ignored the threat of death, made the feat of "the last speech" and fulfilled his life promise. What kind of courage does a person have to choose the world?
Only those who resist when they see despair are truly brave, otherwise they will be called ordinary courage or even recklessness at most. Knowing what not to do is the character of China traditional literati. This is also the core of the Confucian spirit. The cold reality, coupled with darkness and evil, is particularly easy to make passionate and sensitive poets despair. So what remains is how to choose. Reality is not terrible. The terrible thing is that there is no belief in light. Only a person with this belief can fight against the strength of society with personal smallness, because he firmly believes that he is right and everything he does is not worthless. This is what I call resisting despair.
God said, blessed are those who believe in me.
Wen Yiduo said, I love my motherland.